“No candidate, Democratic or Republican, will campaign without having to publicly address their position sooner of later on their campaign trail”. Bernie Sanders appeared before a thunderous crowd of 4,500 Sunday (July 26) as he touched on themes of income inequality, race relations and attacked Wall Street and trade deals at a rally in Kenner.
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At the SCLC event on Saturday, Sanders stressed his participation in civil rights protests as a college student and his work for housing desegregation in Chicago while a member of the Congress for Racial Equality. If he runs as a third party it likely makes Hillary Clinton president or whoever the Democratic nominee is.
But if activists do decide to abandon the Democratic Party, it’s not clear that they will find many allies on the Republican side.
“I’ve been involved in the civil rights movement all of my life”, Sanders said. “A study came out a few weeks ago talking about youth unemployment in America, an issue we do not deal with as a nation”.
Todd continued, accusing Sanders of possibly being dismissive of his handling of civil rights issues.
Sanders said he doesn’t disagree with their message, but was irritated with being interrupted. He told reporters that it is better to focus on the shooting victims, heroic police officers, and survivors.
“We have to address both“, he added, referencing the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr.to combat poverty in America.
On Saturday, Sanders laid out a host of what he labeled horrible facts. One in four black males is likely to be incarcerated, and blacks are imprisoned at a rate six times that of whites, he said.
On climate change, Sanders acknowledged that the state relies heavily on fossil fuels and the jobs they create.
Cohen approached the subject in a recent post that played off an article written by Dara Lind of Vox about Bernie Sanders’ controversial response to Black Lives Matter protestors at Netroots Nation, a progressive political convention held two weekends ago.
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The 73-year-old senator from Vermont, a state that is 95 percent white, drew receptions ranging from polite to enthusiastic from black voters during his swing through the Bayou State, where about one-third of residents are African-American. That we have millions of people working for wages that are much too low. “They’re not able to feed their families”. New Orleans resident Anthony Ladd, a sociology professor, said he likes Sanders even though he wanted Massachusetts Sen. “I’m teaching a summer school class and we talk about what’s happening with middle class people….” People get their news from other people now. “If they’re excited about it, that’s what got Obama elected”.
