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Ray Goldfield
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« on: August 08, 2015, 09:50:50 PM »

This is the equivalent of MLK leading his protest marches almost solely outside the ACLU's headquarters because he doesn't think they're doing quite enough.
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Ray Goldfield
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« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2015, 10:01:58 PM »

This is the equivalent of MLK leading his protest marches almost solely outside the ACLU's headquarters because he doesn't think they're doing quite enough.

Because the entire BLM movement is focused on criticizing Bernie Sanders?

And since you mentioned MLK...

"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

--Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", 1963

They certainly seem to have developed a bizarre fixation with disrupting his rallies. And Sanders is far from a "white moderate". He's probably the only candidate who actually takes their issues seriously.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2015, 12:16:47 PM »

Historically there's a strain of anti-Semitism that's gone along with some elements of African American political activism. I don't think we can rule this out as an explanation for why Sanders, the only Jewish presidential candidate running in this cycle, has become the primary target for these disruptions.

Anyway, the Secret Service shouldn't offer Bernie a choice after this. When people are literally shoving a 70 year old candidate off of a stage, his personal safety is obviously in danger. That cannot be tolerated.

This group also likely has backing from the Anonymous-affiliated radicals who are grossly anti-semitic and infiltrated Occupy, the Gaza protests, and Ferguson to instigate violence. There's definitely an element of that here.

And yeah, Sanders should accept Secret Service protection. Ideally some well-trained black ex-marines who can form a brick wall that the protestors can't get through.
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