Nina Turner Blasts Audience From Black Women's Forum for Booing Senator's MLK Comments

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36. The inference that Sanders was a civil rights icon is not accurate.

Especially when he was silent while his supporters booed someone who was a real civil rights icon that committed for the long haul, and endured far more than being hit by a rock and arrested once.

What the She the People audience could have said and did not when he threw "I marched with MLK in 1963" at them as a defense for not showing any real understanding of their questions:


"You then moved far far away from the where civil rights movement was active to reside in lily white Vermont, while other people carried on doing the hard, often bloody work of civil rights activism, in the belly of the beast, risking their lives, getting their heads cracked open and attacked by police dogs, arrested many times, and sometimes shot and buried in shallow graves. Being in that march with thousands of other people does not excuse you from dismissing the our questions on the issue of Violent White Supremacy because it's not one of your brand issues. It is not a substitute for caring about issues that are not included in the status quo stump speech you're used to."

So, in my book, they showed great restraint.

Why do you think that none of the other candidates got the response from them that Sanders did? What was the variable there?