Bernard Sanders from the podium Saturday as he tried to deliver a speech in Seattle, taking over the microphone and ultimately shutting down the rally.
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However, not all people are satisfied with Sanders and his movement.
“I wish people grew up in the hood and grew up with adversity and seen s–“, he said.
As a presidential candidate, Sanders has focused heavily on income inequality, but he has recently become more vocal and specific about the need to combat poverty in the African-American community and “institutional racism”.
Which is to say, Sanders’ candidacy is going viral in just the way that the Internet specializes in whipping up excitement and quickly transmitting information about a cause.
Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has once again drawn a huge crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena on Monday night.
“No one’s really been saying anything about Hillary Clinton besides that she’s a woman and running for office”, the rapper said.
The 73-year-old took the opportunity Monday evening to obliquely address the incident that occurred in Seattle over the weekend, in which another large Sanders campaign rally was interrupted by protestors from the group, Black Lives Matter. After waiting for 20 minutes, Sanders was pushed away when he tried to retake the microphone.
During the afternoon rewrite of my story on Bernie Sanders’ visit to Oakland, we ended up editing out the paragraph about his dustup with Black Lives Matter activists – so I’ll restore and expand upon it here.
“As a woman, of course the first thought as a Democrat is ‘Oh, we are going to support Hillary“, said Kerry Allen, a student affairs officer at UCLA who brought her 14-year-old daughter, Katie.
He later gave a speech to a cheering audience of about 12,000 at the University of Washington a few hours after he was shoved aside by several Black Lives Matter activists who are calling for changes to the criminal justice system.
“I wish people grew up in the hood and grew up with adversity and seen sh-t”, he said. This election cycle, they are choosing between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who is a lesser known name in the political scene. Mostly, they encouraged Sanders to reframe the way he talks about Black Lives Matter.
“Bernie Sanders was a guest in our city-invited by a multiracial coalition to speak on some very important issues”, wrote Sen. I felt badly for him, but it showed that he’s weak…we’re the two getting the biggest crowds, but believe me, that’s not gonna happen to Trump.
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“Invest in nurses and in doctors and in medicine; not in the profits of insurance companies or drug companies”, said Sanders. A lot of people started talking to me about Bernie Sanders and they were like, hey, you gotta pay attention.
