Sanders Being Harassed by blacklivesmatter#

All due respect but the 'Bernie is being singled out and persecuted' idea just doesn't have much fact to support it IMHO.

ah, the irony of white people complaining about being interrupted by black people. White men live about five years longer than black men, and white women live about four years longer than black women – that’s including but beyond the crisis of police killings. The way I see it, white dudes have got to listen to a brother tell them why this is messed up for about five years before they can even think about saying their precious time is being wasted

Despite all this, whiny, pathetic “progressives” grew enraged that Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders, who had largely been mum on race until he’s been forced to confront it this year by Black Lives Matter, was interrupted in Seattle by black activists. But how was that problematic? Sanders, 73, has already lived longer than the average black man. He’s got time the time to listen.

And Sanders’ white supporters – even at Gawker, who said Black Lives Matter shouldn’t “piss on your best friend” and actually argued the politics of civility for a change – should be quiet and reflect. They are inured from the dangers young black men face of being killed by police, and protected from lives cut short by hundreds of years of structural racism, health disparities, John Henryism and violence that are still felt today.

They are shielded from living in darker skinned bodies which have literally been rendered unable to simply stay upon this earth for as long as lighter skinned bodies.

CNN is maximizing the story about the Black Lives Matter protesting Bernie Sanders because it hurts his campaign and for no other reason.

I'm a Clinton supporter but I hate the way CNN is always so biased in her favor. It was the same way back in 2008, if you recall. CNN has its own agenda and way of propagandizing. Not as bad as Fox, but getting there.

CNN is maximizing the story about the Black Lives Matter protesting Bernie Sanders because it hurts his campaign and for no other reason.

Eman al-Obeidi burst into Tripoli's Rixos Hotel on the morning of March 26, 2011, six weeks after a Libyan uprising against Gadhafi erupted in the eastern city of Benghazi. She howled in front of foreign journalists staying at the hotel, bared the bruises and scars on her body and pleaded for help.

"Look at what Gadhafi's men did to me," she cried.

The images of al-Obeidi were seen instantly around the world. She personified courage as the woman who broke Libyan societal taboos in speaking openly about a horrific sex crime. She defied an iron-fisted dictator and in doing so, she became for a moment, however fleeting, the face of revolution.

Her presence in the media caught the attention of global players, among them then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who eventually arranged for asylum in the United States.

Even though al-Obeidi expressed gratitude in the past for the role CNN played in publicizing her case, she refused recent requests for an interview. The woman who sought out the media and catapulted herself to celebrity status now wants nothing more than to avoid the headlines.

Libyan dragged away after rape claim

Few of the people who helped al-Obeidi settle in Colorado when she first arrived as a political refugee in 2011 are still in touch with her. Some describe her as a deeply troubled woman who has displayed public flashes of anger and behaved irrationally. Even the Libyan Embassy in Washington, which provided her with a life-saving, $1,800-a-month stipend, no longer maintains contact.

Your comment kinda pissed me off at first, but actually its a good point and a hopeful sign. Maybe we all can start dialing down the hate.

What's your beef? I meant what I said.

When I first read it it struck me as wrong minded. Re-reading it made 'get' your point AND I agree with it.

Jeez, what'd happened if I'da disagreed? Sheeeesh.