As I’ve said many times before, Bernie Sanders marched as a youngster and hasn’t done much of anything for African Americans during his long underwhelming career.
But ohh, now that he’s running for president, he loves him some black folks; people.
THE SITUATION
“MINNEAPOLIS – A warm, welcoming African-American crowd grew increasingly frustrated with Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday evening, complaining that he’s too scared to talk about specifically black issues.
Sanders was here for “A Community Forum on Black America,” introduced by the local congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison, one of Sanders' only two endorsers in the House”
Unlike many of the packed rallies that have greeted Sanders in other parts of the country, neither the folding chairs nor the bleachers in the gym here at Patrick Henry High School were full.
And the crowd and the panel grew lukewarm on Sanders, saying his focus on economic inequality looks past the entrenched problems they face as African-Americans.
Questions from a panel and the crowd drilled down on felon voting rights -- which Sanders said he strongly supported restoring -- but turned to environmental racism and reparations for slavery, with demands for more exact answers about actions the candidate for the Democratic nomination would take if he was elected president.
The tension quickly rose over his 40-minute appearance, with moderator Anthony Newby repeatedly calling for “specific redress.”
“I know you’re scared to say ‘black,’ I know you’re scared to say ‘reparations,’” said Felicia Perry, a local entrepreneur and artist on the stage. “Can’t you please specifically talk about black people?”
THE RUBIO-BOT RESPONSE
“Sanders said, the issues at hand are more about economics than race.”
There Rubio Bernie goes again….Wall Street, Wall Street; nothing but Wall Street