It's just too good! ~ I really want the media to keep giving them coverage!

More more more.... Tell us how you really feel... US DEMS WE LISTENING!

IN the meantime... BS release the taxes!!!!

really to me, too.

It's incredibly ignorant and insensitive to compare BS to MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela.. it really makes me physically sick.

That's what I meant! ~~~OMG after OMG! ~~~FAIL after FAIL!!!

missives @ Hillary Supporters and Hillary.. and BS, too.
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But, Nelson Mandela and MLK Jr compare to Bernie"I'll have to study on that"Sanders?!!

Get a Grip, Shailene!

Mahalo, HS!

Woodley has revealed herself as someone ignorant, either of civil rights history or maybe just how analogies work.

it's just really pathetic.. and I got a queasy feeling when I read it.. I couldn't stop thinking about it.. so I decided it really needed be exposed.

Thank you, Surya~

me sick.

Bernie grew up in a diverse city, as part of a minority, I'll grant him that. But the moment he could, he fled to one of the most lily-white states in the Union.

(My pet theory about that? Fellow activists in NYC and Chicago refused to agree that sexism, homophobia, and racism were secondary to economy, and refused to coddle him on it. So he went a place where those issues weren't front and center - less overt racism because of lack of diversity, and less sexism and homophobia because Vermont was already ahead of the curve on those because of the liberality of the state. How is it courageous to leave places where there's a real struggle going on, and go where there's hardly any struggle?)

But what did he do after that? He didn't stay in Chicago. He didn't go back to Brooklyn. He didn't go anywhere to continue the role he played in Chicago. Instead, he went to Vermont and stayed there the rest of his life.

been compared to God and Jesus.

OTT and inappropriate comparisons seem to be hallmarks of Bernie's campaign.

Also, Shailene (whom I'd never heard of until this OP) is but a young thing who likely paid no attention to her US or World History courses - if she took any at all - and thus has no real idea of who Mandela and MLK actually were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailene_Woodley

Still, I too am outraged. Bernie is not fit to share even the same sentence with either, IMO.

lives.. the struggles they endured. BS should reject that comparison because it's not true.

And, I feel the same.. they shouldn't even be in the same sentence together.. I am deeply offended and I can only imagine how African Americans would feel about this pathetic attempt to make sanders seem to be more than he is.

But, we get a pretty good idea from the African American tweeter in the OP.. Nerdy Wonka.

Mahalo, BlueMT

About feminism, how women should sunbathe for cleanliness, about how she loves eating clay. She's a good and engaging actress, but is an idiot when she speaks for some reason.

it's because she's a full on idiot.

Seriously, I really like her as an actress, but have decided even before this I may need to quit watching her movies, because of all her anti feminist stuff.

... the stage of thinking to themselves "fuck-it! what have we got to lose?" then it's pretty clear to me that it's GAME OVER.

As offensive as many of their comments and comparisons have been, I do welcome them... because it confirms what we've known all along: THE END IS NEAR.

her think she could compare BSanders to MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela?!

BS has done nothing for anyone except himself. I don't remember any of MLK's or Mandela's speeches preaching hate?!

Thank you, Jackie.. I like your

I can't wait until it's Official!

Ron Popeil.

He attracts thousands of adoring fans with an act as old as the 1950's and he promises that if you send him a couple of bucks, he will deliver everything you ever wanted!

Elmer Gantry comes to my mind.



BlueCaliDem~

Mahalo, Walk away~

Nelson Mandela and MLK Jr? Really?

I never heard of Shailene Woodley and don't care to hear any more of her. She may be a good actress; I have no idea, but she's shown here she's ignorant and insensitive.

Cha

to everyone who shared their struggles! Can you imagine how John Lewis feels about someone comparing BS to these two icons? MLK's struggle for African Americans in the US and Mandela's 27 years imprisonment for the struggle against apartheid in South Africa?

Another comment from the link @ The Obama Diary..

bella2758

April 25, 2016 at 9:20 am

"So what prison was Bernie in for twenty something years? Bernie Sanders doesn’t belong in the same sentence as MLK and Mandela".

Mahalo~

She's a self-described non-feminist because she thinks feminism discriminates against men. Does she think Black History studies discriminates against white people? Maybe so, based on her ignorance comparing Sanders to MLK Jr and Mandela.

I know Sanders was "arrested" back when he was 21 years old, but never spent a second in jail. Held in a gymnasium or armory or something, fined a whopping $25 and sent on his way.

Both of the other two spent a lot more time in jail and actually accomplished something through their protests. I guess Sanders is jealous because Mandela was elected President, but he never will be.

To those heroic souls. The hyperbolic rantings of St. Burn's acolytes is really turning off many sane liberals. Instead of devoting his life to fighting for equality, Bernie fled to lilly white Vermont where he has spent a lifetime in congress apparently naming two Post Offices.

He needs to apologize for this kind of absurd rhetoric.

Africa and the United States of America.

27 years is such a long time to be imprisoned and MLK Jr was assassinated for his struggles for his people.

Of course Bernie Sanders is nothing like Nelson Mandela......

Mandela actually won his election.

This is very offensive.

A lifetime spent as a carpenter, Mayor, Congressman, and Senator in no way compares with giants who gave their lives.

Its too little too late to fool the AA's into following the white male dominated cult of Bernie.

Typical shitty attempt to verbally paste Bernie's campaign logo over MLK & Mandela's legacy.
Didn't work with the Pope pic & no one outside of his white bro base is buying this one either.

#GTFObernie

before, mister.. but not this cravenly desperate to try make oneself way better than he is.

It's obvious sanders can't stand alone.. he certainly can't run on his record.

But this latest offensive statement from one of his surrogates is beyond the pale.

Mahlao~

and worked for an end to apartheid in my youth, and who is now living in the US (for the last 2 decades), I think I might perhaps be a bit more qualified to judge this than a young American actress. So, no, Bernie is not like Nelson Mandela. Mandela was part of an organization (the ANC was founded in 1912), and eventually led it. He did not stand on the sidelines and shout; he did not think he could just run for office in his old age and magically get a revolution going. He and his comrades worked at their revolution for decades. He spent 27 years in prison for it. He ended up negotiating for a peaceful revolution with his former enemies.

I don't see a resemblance.

YOU are far more qualified in wisdom & experience than Bernie Sanders. YOU could debate him into the dirt on the subject of knowing what Mandela's legacy involved.

Thank you for the part you played in such an unsettling time in the history.

I wonder who coached her on this blasphemous speech.
She clearly had no idea what she was talking about.
Someday when she looks back at this day, she will feel humiliated by the words she spoke.

Btw, Sanders also idolized Fidel Castro. So there's much for her to learn.

This makes me sick

My participation was relatively minor - I was a student. Worked for liberal groups on campus, argued with people (often my relatives or friends), marched a tiny bit. Really nothing major. I did my small part, but I would say that it changed me more than I changed anything!

What did he actually contribute for Mandela's cause?
Z E R O.
Yet he again, slaps his campaign Logo on the legacy of the greats of humanity.
Talk about taking a free ride on the coattails of those who commit their lives to human rights.

He cannot get any more disgusting.

end apartheid, Nonhlanhla.

Sadly, she knows nothing about it or about MLK's struggles and history or she never would have compared sanders to the civil rights icons, MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela.

As I mentioned above, my part was really minor. I would not want to claim any credit that is not mine. The people who really won that struggle were the African National Congress, its associated groups like the United Democratic Front, and many others.

Regarding MLK, although there are others who can speak better about him, I do know from teaching him (as well as teaching Gandhi' whose ideas deeply influenced MLK), that I don't see that resemblance either. If you study the method of non-violent non-cooperation, you start to see just how intentional and forceful and organized it is. It's not the kind of revolution that you get from big speeches. There's a depth structure to the method of Satyagraha (which Gandhi ironically developed in South Africa and later also used in India) and MLK's Civil Rights approach, which escapes the casual observer. While we are often captivated by MLK's big speeches, the hard work that was done behind the scenes was where change really happened. And that kind of hard work, organization, and intellectual sophistication I just don't see in Bernie's movement.

I posted it in the AfAm Group from the perspective of . . .

Does she want to play Coretta in a movie? Is this why she's trying to white wash these two men? Shame on her.

She should have picked a white person who fought for economic equality in America. She needs to go to college with all of that money she has made and get a degree in history.

Until such a time - she needs to STFU on black history - domestic and the diaspora.

It shows an incredible lack of knowledge of the history of these two icons and heroes of the civil rights struggle, in the US, and the apartheid struggle in South African, Gen.

her comment made me laugh

probably never left the state and obviously has no clue.

Now, we are talking about the Bernie Sanders who hauled ass back up north the first time he got arrested at a civil rights protest, correct?

No effen way.

I am sure they are good at being directed on film but, out on their own with no direction they just don't know when to shut up.

Good for us! Bad for Bernie!

thinks of BS.


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Full context of the Pope's quotes on the plane about his brief encounter with Sanders:http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/16/pope-francis-calls-sanders-greeting-only-common-courtesy/ …
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I'm hard pressed to rank them, but Sarandon, Song, Dawson, Robbins and now Woodley are all clearly overachievers.