Like him or not, Sen. Bernie Sanders has delivered some powerful speeches to enthusiastic crowds of thousands upon thousands. That’s on a good day; Sanders is also famous for surrendering the stage to #BlackLivesMatters protesters, who have literally taken over the microphone while Sanders stood by powerless.
Among the chaos and yelling at Netroots Nation, Sanders attempted to tell the crowd that he was part of the March on Washington in 1963. As we learned from the #NotAnAlly thread, though:
https://twitter.com/AfroStateOfMind/status/630937690125520896
This isn’t MLK, though; this is Deray McKesson, one of a group of activists who “have built the most formidable American protest movement of the 21st century to date.” He also appears on the White House Visitors Log three times in 2011, although his defenders explained that he was just taking the public tour (and meeting with Zachary Russem, former regional field director for Obama for America).
At last, we may finally achieve the understanding that has made the relationship between Sanders and the #BlackLivesMatter movement so contentious.
.@BernieSanders, the first draft of your racial justice platform has promise. When will you be available to discuss enhancements w/ folks?
— deray (@deray) August 17, 2015
@deray Let's do it. We will PM you this week to arrange.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 17, 2015
Cool. Folks are ready to discuss policy. And I think you meant "DM." ✊?. https://t.co/Xuff4iFWxR
— deray (@deray) August 17, 2015
Don’t forget that Hillary Clinton already had her 15-minute closed door meeting with #BlackLivesMatter agitators who arrived just a bit too late to crash her event in New Hampshire. That was just a local chapter, though; this is Deray.
https://twitter.com/melimel521/status/633413434739134464
https://twitter.com/MetricButtload/status/633358092395122688
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/633362048001409025
@BernieSanders @deray thus begins official sheepdogging of BLM #FeelTheBern
— AKahn (@akahnnyc) August 17, 2015
Yo @deray Cut @BernieSanders some slack on the terminology, man. We're lucky he's plugged in at all given his generation. Much love.
— Jason Mogavero (@jtmogavero) August 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/Dick_Beninya/status/633377452497088512
@BernieSanders @deray and all the little SJW's had their feelz good moment…
— Texas Guy (@Collinsdw) August 17, 2015
@BernieSanders @deray ……and Sanders just lost. Old white men caused the problems but let's support an old white man anyway.
— Chale (@Chale333) August 17, 2015
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