Why do black lives matter activists hate Bernie Sanders?

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

Sanders was just starting to address several thousand people gathered shoulder to shoulder at Westlake Park when two women took over the microphone. Organizers couldn't persuade the two to wait and agreed to give them a few minutes.

As Sanders stepped back, the women spoke about Ferguson and the killing of Michael Brown and held a four minute moment of silence.

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

After waiting about 20 minutes, Sanders himself was pushed away when he tried to take the microphone back. Instead, he waved goodbye, left the stage with a raised fist salute and waded into the crowd. He shook hands and posed for photos with supporters for about 15 minutes, and then left.
The rally at Westlake Park was organized as a birthday celebration for Social security, Medicare and Medicaid.

It's not the first time that Black Lives Matter activists disrupt the Vermont senator's event.

At a town hall for Democratic presidential candidates in Phoenix last month, protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement took over the stage and disrupted an interview with Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.

In his campaign, Sanders has chiefly focused on issues like the middle class, climate change and criminal justice reform. In addition to advocating a $15-an-hour minimum wage and raising taxes on the rich, Sanders also supports a massive government-led jobs program to fix roads and bridges, a single-payer health care system, an expansion of Social Security benefits and debt-free college.

Sanders will hold a campaign rally at the University of Washington this evening. He will be driving to Portland on Sunday and is scheduled to hold a Sunday night rally at Portland's Moda Center, which has a capacity of about 19,000 and is home of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. The event had originally been scheduled at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which can handle about 12,000.




Is this a George Soros or Hillary Clinton funded group? I'm not understanding the motive otherwise? The guy marches for civil rights, called for an apology to slavery, and is a jew who voted for the iran deal and didn't go to the netanyahu speech. Shouldn't he a liberal darling?
 
When the crowd asked the activists to allow Sanders to speak, one activist called the crowd "white supremacist liberals," according to event participants.
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Pls tell me another candidate talking about Sandra Bland and #BlackLivesMatter
 
Are we sure black lives matter activists hate Bernie? Who's officially organized as black lives matter activists? Who are the accused women in Phoenix and Seattle? Do their actions speak for the entirety of the black lives matter group? How do we know they're really with the movement? Who wrote the article? Sorry for all the questions.
 
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It was on yahoo news and a google search shows nbc and msnbc. It's the second time in a few weeks he was heckled.

I think a branch apologized on twitter this time though

Seems out of left field but a coordinated effort to knock him.



Looks like it isn't random people.
 
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"This city is filled with white progressives, which is why Bernie Sanders’ camp was obviously expecting a friendly and consenting audience for today’s campaign visit. The problem with Sanders’, and with white Seattle progressives in general, is that they are utterly and totally useless (when not outright harmful) in terms of the fight for Black lives."


Good luck finding someone better than a socialist who was in the civil rights movement.

I honestly think it's Hillary and Soros influenced. Too weird.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/...ton-super-pacs-to-20-million-haul-119669.html
 
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Seem like paid detractors under the guise of the movement. His thinking aligns more than any other candidate, so it doesn't make sense.
 
A painfully obvious shill campaign.

Those BLM "affiliates" are simply pawns in a game that they do not understand.
 
Out of all the candidates to protest too...

I might be out of the loop, but until I hear him address the issue he will not get my vote.

He talks about ******* climate change more than what's going on right now with Police & black people.
 
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I might be out of the loop, but until I hear him address the issue he will not get my vote.

He talks about ******* climate change more than what's going on right now with Police & black people.
Like he said, racism is institutionalized, and in order to fight racism, we have to take on the system from within that is perpetuating it. While he may not explicitly mention blacks or Hispanics and other minorities as much as some would like him to, when he talks about poverty, incarceration, drug use, and disenfranchisement, these are issues that are holding back minorities because that's how the system is unfairly set up. Although he's from 90% white Vermont, the fact that he's talking about these race issues will be great for discussion when the debates roll in come October. Obviously, you dont hear those issues in the Republican debates. The thing about Bernie when he talks is that he comes off as an angry old man, as a very genuine man at that. That's what I think.

My only genuine worry about Bernie is the economics side of his campaign. Because all you hear from the other side is "TAXES TOO MUCH. CLASS WARFARE. SOCIALISM ONLY WORKS UNTIL YOU RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY". Hoping that Bernie addresses his economic plan more thoroughly through the election season.
 
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I've only been halfway paying attention to all the candidates but he seems like the one with the most sense and the closest to what these protesters would be advocating.
 
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