Vermont’s Black Leaders: "We Were Invisible to Sanders"

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/vermont-s-black-leaders-we-were-invisible-to-bernie-sanders.html?via=desktop&source=twitter

Back in 2006, the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, a Brattleboro-area civil rights organization, hosted a Candidate Night. The race for the open U.S. Senate seat between Bernie Sanders and Richard Tarrant, a Republican and one of the wealthiest people in the state, had grown increasingly acrimonious.

The audience of African-American activists and other Vermonters of color should have been a friendly one for the socialist congressman.

Instead, remembers Curtiss Reed Jr., the executive director of the group, it became something of a showdown. Sanders “was just really dismissive of anything that had to do with race and racism, saying that they didn’t have anything to do with the issues of income inequality,” Reed told The Daily Beast.

“He just always kept coming back to income inequality as a response, as if talking about income inequality would somehow make issues of racism go away.”

And since winning that race, Sanders’s approach toward Reed and his organization has been one of “benign neglect,” the activist added. “We are a major statewide organization. It would stand to reason that you would check in with your major constituents, but voters of color are simply not on his radar.”


Also, LOL:

(A spokesperson for the Sanders campaign did not respond to an emailed question about what Sanders specifically had done for the African-American community of Vermont.)

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know the Hillbots are getting desperate when...

When what kid? Posting articles that are unflattering to your man-crush?

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know the Hillbots are getting desperate when...

When what kid? Posting articles that are unflattering to your man-crush?

Well, usually you posting an article kind of discredits its credibility and neutrality right off the bat.

If you're judging the credibility of an article based on who posted it then you're even more stupid than I thought.

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know the Hillbots are getting desperate when...

When what kid? Posting articles that are unflattering to your man-crush?

Well, usually you posting an article kind of discredits its credibility and neutrality right off the bat.

Gotta love that avatar.  I'm cool with Indy avatars who clearly support one side, but I think you keep it to give you some type of credibility/not reveal your bias right away.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Lyndon is some kind of computer program designed to post negative articles about Sanders and make excuses about polls showing Sanders doing well. People make big deals about Berniebots, but Sanders hate is quite literally the only thing I have ever seen Lyndon do on this forum.

It's the second time in a few minutes that you post the same thing. It seems to me that you're a bot.

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know the Hillbots are getting desperate when...

When what kid? Posting articles that are unflattering to your man-crush?

Well, usually you posting an article kind of discredits its credibility and neutrality right off the bat.

If you're judging the credibility of an article based on who posted it then you're even more stupid than I thought.

LOL, I'm judging the article on how stupid its text was; I'm judging you by what a troll-like hack poster you are.

I know you're bitter after seeing your party going to hell in a handbasket during this primary so I'll cut you some slack.
Go find a girl with big boobs and have some fun with her because you're obviously too tense right now.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Anybody who's spent more than a few minutes on this forum can confirm that I'm not a bot, due to the fact that I actually do things other than hate on Hillary Clinton.

Yeah, changing avatars and trying unsuccessfully to be funny.

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know the Hillbots are getting desperate when...

When what kid? Posting articles that are unflattering to your man-crush?

Well, usually you posting an article kind of discredits its credibility and neutrality right off the bat.

If you're judging the credibility of an article based on who posted it then you're even more stupid than I thought.

LOL, I'm judging the article on how stupid its text was; I'm judging you by what a troll-like hack poster you are.

I know you're bitter after seeing your party going to hell in a handbasket during this primary so I'll cut you some slack.
Go find a girl with big boobs and have some fun with her because you're obviously too tense right now.

Speak for yourself pal....

I'm not tense at all pal. I sleep like a baby.

[Landslide Lyndon]

You know the Hillbots are getting desperate when...

When what kid? Posting articles that are unflattering to your man-crush?

Well, usually you posting an article kind of discredits its credibility and neutrality right off the bat.

If you're judging the credibility of an article based on who posted it then you're even more stupid than I thought.

LOL, I'm judging the article on how stupid its text was; I'm judging you by what a troll-like hack poster you are.

I know you're bitter after seeing your party going to hell in a handbasket during this primary so I'll cut you some slack.
Go find a girl with big boobs and have some fun with her because you're obviously too tense right now.

Oh, Lyndon.  Too HILARIOUS.  That's why I'm tense, you nailed it!  I guess I could court my ugly Greek neighbor up the street.

If she gives good head then go for it.

[Landslide Lyndon]

The only reason anyone is trying to do this is because Clinton supporters are desperate to paint Bernie as a crazy old racist white guy that doesn't care about black people. No one is ever able to clearly explain how this is the case, mind you.

Nobody accused Sanders of being a racist, that's a straw man.
He is "accused" that he is unable or (more likely) unwilling to address maters about which minorities care.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Which issues specifically?

Immigration, mass incarceration, etc.
Heck, he was asked about racism at the last debate and he started talking about tax breaks for millionaires, again.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Chelsea Clinton literally just came out and said his plan to end mass incarceration was too radical.

And why are you surprised? Almost all of Sanders' major policy proposals have been criticized by liberal wonks as out of touch.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Which issues specifically?

Immigration, mass incarceration, etc.
Heck, he was asked about racism at the last debate and he started talking about tax breaks for millionaires, again.

Say what?

I don't know what Lyndon's going on about. Didn't he talk about mass incarceration in his opening statement last debate?

Oh, I guess that talking about an issue for 30 sec. makes everything OK.