Bernie in Boston yesterday:
Sanders, who had the crowd cheering throughout the event, opened with scathing comments about President-elect Donald Trump.
“There is a lot of racism in this country. There is a lot of sexism, a lot of homophobia,” he said. “I don’t have to explain to anybody here the racist background of Mr. Trump … I don’t have to tell anybody here about the slurs, the awful things he has said about Mexicans … Muslim people … and obviously … his attitude towards women.”
Sanders urged his audience to unite in order to resist bigotry.
“When we bring millions of people together, here in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, when we do that, there is nothing we cannot accomplish,” he said, acknowledging cheers of affirmation from the audience.
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“For 40 years, the middle class of this country has been in decline,” he said. “You see enormous pain and confusion as to why the people on top make huge amounts of money, while the middle class continues to shrink, and 43 million Americans live in poverty.”
We must unite to fight Trump. Still Stronger Together.
Update I:
Sanders concluded by paraphrasing a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., promoting the idea of acceptance and unity.
“All of us remember what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, that our job is to judge people not by the color of their skin, or the country they came from, or what they wear on their hair, our job is to judge people by their character as human beings,” he said. “We have come too far to go backwards to that kind of hatred.”