Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was shoved aside onstage by several Black Lives Matter activists and eventually left a Saturday afternoon event in Seattle without giving his speech.

WhiteDragon9d · 6時間前

If you see the video, he even extends a hand to one of the activists in a gesture of goodwill and she just yells in his face. Ignorance at its finest.

Baralt1830 · 8時間前

Quite ironic, given Sanders track record

Bernie Sanders was very active during the civil rights

Edit: I'll save you the going to the link.

Bernie Sanders entered into politics through the civil rights movement, more than a half century ago. He organized with CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) in Chicago, and led a sit-in against segregated housing as far back as 1962.

jcaseys34 · 7時間前

I don't get it. If any current candidate will honestly try to make things better for minorites and the underprivileged it will be Sanders.

Dr_Spicoli · 9時間前

These people are dummies. They are basically preaching to the choir at a rally like that. Way to alienate the people they have most on their side. Shit's gonna get old real quick.

jackstraw12 · 7時間前

"Sanders was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and participated in the historic March on Washington in 1963 as a 22-year-old student at the University of Chicago. "It was a question for me of just basic justice — the fact that it was not acceptable in America at that point that you had large numbers of African-Americans who couldn't vote, who couldn't eat in a restaurant, whose kids were going to segregated schools, who couldn't get hotel accommodations living in segregated housing," he told the Burlington Free Press. "That was clearly a major American injustice and something that had to be dealt with."

5BagsOfPopcorn2Sodas · 4時間前

This reminds me of how occupy would piss off the general public by stopping traffic and creating unnecessary disturbances. No quicker way to destroy your movement than by attacking your potential allies and alienating yourself.

PayJay · 6時間前

wow how fucking moronic. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who actually gives a fuck about their cause.

Demopublican · 7時間前

Being an asshole sure does tend to change people's minds about whether or not your life matters.

tiff_seattle · 6時間前

I was there, and here is a picture I took of the stage shortly after they took the mic from him.

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/11834698_10153620015986209_2181948972884232023_o.jpg

creampiesurprise420 · 4時間前

"Sanders was speaking at a Social Security and Medicare celebration at Westlake Park and stood back when a protester took the podium.

Some in the crowd booed.

"I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, but you already did it for me," she said."

Maybe everyone isn't racist, maybe you are just an asshole.

shaunc · 9時間前

When the crowd asked the activists to allow Sanders to speak, one activist called the crowd "white supremacist liberals," according to event participants.

I can't even. Do we know that these were legitimate activists, or did they get a check from the Koch brothers to show up and be disruptive? It sounds like Bernie needs some better security at his events.

angry_dorkbot · 4時間前

What a lovely way to get people not to care about your message.

nuorigin · 54分前

They looked irrational, irresponsible, and they only hurt their cause. As a 50 year old black father and grandfather, I do believe black lives matter, but there is a time and place for everything. To hijack an event that they did not organize shows a lack of insight as to what tactics are beneficial to relaying their message. I didn't see "black lives matter", I saw "black women being ignorant".

plentifulpooper · 8時間前

Why is the peaceful political process allowed to be disrupted? This is a presidential candidate that needs to get their message out above the noise of the establishment. Bernie Sanders isn't exactly a household name. Maybe this publicity will be better for his campaign.

DrLemonPepper · 8時間前

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

SimplyStranger · 8時間前

What's more bugging me is that there are black people who have now negative view toward Bernie. I read thru bunch of twitter posts on their ignorant view toward the organizers and supporters of Bernie to this reaction, claiming that these supporters are being racist for not supporting this Movement led by imbeciles who seem to not know a single clue about upcoming election and current political atmosphere.

Not only to mention these fools literally disturbed the whole rally, which I assumed is hardly funded, threatened the crowds with not handing over the mic to Bernie if not respected with silence.

P.S. IF you watch the video of their intervention from the beginning, you will lose your mind out of anger... How can they possible expect for respect treating their fellow people like this despite their cause. Can you imagine Doctor King shouting "I have a fucking dream and you listen to the shit out of it"? Them shouting like goddamn orangutans were unbearable.

Bless Bernie for replying to them, "If that's your attitude, I have nothing to say to you". Just like a true American, he didn't negotiate with terrorists but simply hear their demands.

Slimerbacca · 4時間前

Classy move

Now I hope he gets better security

baconair · 4時間前

The protestors used the most accessible and sympathetic platform to detract from their own supposed cause.

This is either a whole new level of stupid or a political play.

nerdfighter123 · 3時間前

This picture describes exactly what happened...

Kromulent · 9時間前

The Hillary campaign probably hired the lot of them.

Morrigi_ · 6時間前

They're creating more racists (actual racists, not the "you're a racist for disagreeing with me" kind) every time they pull this shit.

cvbnh · 3時間前

This is so utterly stupid. Sanders is the candidate that is closest to representing their interests. This is not how you shift the debate leftwards.

At least the main BLM group on facebook or whatever disavowed these actions.

hebreakslate · 3時間前

It's almost as if people have forgotten that white people were active in the civil rights movement (including Bernie) or that 5 heterosexual supreme court justices voted that marriage is a universal right or that men actually fought for women's suffrage or that white, land-owning males voted for a president who would abolish slavery. I think at the very core of what it means to be a Democrat is a willingness to fight on behalf of minorities of which you are not a part.

Christiantw · 2時間前

I'm all for the BLM movement, but I think if they want people to listen, they can't be total dicks about it. I get it guys, it sucks that racism is a thing. The problem is, a lot of these racists think you are lesser beings because they think that all blacks are thugs. So you're going to bring attention to the issue by bullying an old man? That really makes a lot of sense guys. I'm so glad to see you have it all figured out.

P.S. I am going to try to attend the Sanders rally in Portland. I'd like to hear what he has to say, so please, if you are just going to cause problems, stay far away from the event.

Mantis--Toboggan_MD · 7時間前

Here's a video of those nut jobs. I don't understand why these idiots think Michael Brown is a good example to use. That guy was a criminal who got what he had coming.

FUCK_REDDITS_ADMINS · 9時間前

Disgusting. They feel entitled to every single public forum. They don't understand that the world is more than their little, closed-off world. Hopefully the establishment media will start treating the BLM idiots with the contempt they deserve.

I_enjoy_poop_sex · 6時間前

As someone who doesn't care about the blacklivesmatter movement, i love watching them shoot themselves in the foot.

letdogsvote · 8時間前

Nothing like a crowd of SJWs to wreck a good event from the candidate likely to help their interests the most.

whipsorrow · 5時間前

Yeah, way to go. Push aside the one man that agrees with you and the relevant issues you support. You may even prevent his election. DOH!

nomorecompromise · 4時間前

Where in the fuck was security?

presidentalinsky · 8時間前

Left wing extremists are getting out of control.

bozobozo · 7時間前

Imagine this happening at a republican event.

https://libcom.org/files/images/library/rnc21_580x413.jpg

WillemDafuq_ · 3時間前

Remember when the media tried hard to convince us the Tea Party was as a racist hate group? BLM is an actual racist hate group and they get a pass.

bd9120 · 5時間前

Maybe this will serve as a wake up call for Bernie

Mordredbas · 2時間前

I'm betting one of the other campaigns paid these women to interrupt Bernie, any other answer would involve these women being too stupid to breathe.

ColDax · 6時間前

ha ha ha so the snake begins to eat its tail

Bloodrazor · 4時間前

Why isn't this higher?

Because this is what happens when two of reddits circlejerks collide: gotta keep it on the DLow

waynerooney501 · 4時間前

LOL. This happened in Seattle of all places. Not a single black guy lives in the pacific northwest.

Gibberwocky · 4時間前

Nice to see the party of civility acting civil, as usual.

EllenPaosDirtyMoney · 1時間前

Looks like they were successful. Even if it makes people mad it makes people remember. There is a reason why one specific minority has a much larger murder and arrest rate than all the rest and it doesn't all have to do with the police. They are a little bit preaching to the choir though as the liberals are probably their strongest advocates.

o0flatCircle0o · 3時間前

Those women were from tumblr I guarantee it.

Feldheld · 4時間前

Is funny because Democrats created this demon.

lunishidd · 3時間前

BLM is currently the most racist hate group in the US

Avant_guardian1 · 8時間前

Agent provocateurs.

Probably working for the FBI, Hilary, or some conservative group.

fajitas_ · 3時間前

I'm pretty drunk right now, but I kind of wish Bernie Sanders had let security force them off stage.

geezergamer · 3時間前

Are they disrupting Clinton rallies?

Executor21 · 2時間前

This might actually backfire and help him garner sympathy and ultimately, votes.

Thank you, BLM!

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