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

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154. Another ugly, ugly strawman? Really?

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Again....

Sanders didn't answer the question about what he would do, as POTUS, about violent white supremacists. Instead he gave a vague answer about everyone being treated equally, and tried to veer off onto Medicare for All. When he was asked again to answer the question that was asked, he threw out MLK's name and that he was at the march defensively, as that was some sort of substitute for an answer. His repeated evasion of the question was booed.

The only person in the race that was involved with the civil rights movement in a positive way in this race doesnt get it

Because he's the only one old enough to have been at the march, no one else in the race has been involved in the civil rights movement in a positive way? That's reaching.....

And what about the optics of sending a WOC out to falsely smear other WOC to a cheering mostly white, crowd as a campaign tactic? What does that say about the candidate in 2019?

The question was not about his history in the civil rights movement. It was about what he would do as POTUS concerning violent white supremacists. You are doing what he did - trying to deny what the actual question was, and trying to blame the audience for calling him out for it. What was clueless was thinking that he could substitute listening to them and answering their question when confronted on his non-answer with simply saying "MLK march!"

About that arrest...

His comments at this event make it appear that he thinks what he did in College in the early 60's excuses him from focusing on what can be done to address violent white supremacists.

He couldn't even come up with this basic, no brainer: I will restore the Homeland Security Domestic Terrorism Unit that Trump has disbanded. No amount of activism 50+ years ago in college will excuse that.

BTW - Charleston Heston and Mitch McConnell were both also at the MLK march.

When Barack Obama was invited to a candidate's forum on health care reform in 2008, he declined, because he felt that he didn't have a comprehensive enough plan developed. Understanding that one isn't an expert on everything is a vital characteristic in a leader.

It seemed he was unprepared, so he did the status quo politician sidestep to his comfortable talking points, and these women weren't buying it. That's what they were booing. If you think an audience of WOC were booing the fact that someone was at the MLK march, and being one of the few in the race old enough to have done so, you are the one who is truly 'doesn't get it."

Well what you do in the moments like that matter snd define you.

Bernie thinking that he can send out a WOC to smear a group of WOC to cheering, very white crowd, is breathtakingly bad strategy, and worse optics. You and I both know if Bernie had said what Nina Turner it would have been called racially tone-deaf, at best. That decision to send Nina out to attack these women will be characterized as making a bad situation worse for the rest of his campaign. That matters and may define his campaign.

He thought sending a WOC to harrange them would convince people that it wasn't him being disrespectful, it was them who were attacking his civil rights record. If that's true, why didn't that same audience react that way to any of the other candidates?

No one defending Sanders on this thread has had the courage to answer that.

Bernie is showing the status quo male privilege refusing to admit that he made a mistake.

And yes, WHAT ABOUT JOE BIDEN FIFTY YEARS AGO??? in response to a criticism of Bernie Sanders and his campaign manager said this week is a spectacular example of whataboutism. You can stonewall and say it's not, but that doesn't change what several people here observed.