Cory Booker: Sanders has "long record of civil rights" for which I have "tremendous respect"

Booker: Sanders has 'long record of civil rights'
August 9, 2015 * By Mark Hensch * The Hill

Booker added that his Senate colleague’s record is one of deep respect for civil rights.
“Bernie has become somebody I have tremendous respect for and is an ally of mine in addressing issues in the United States Senate that affect minority communities,” he said.

“He has a long record of civil rights,” Booker told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

Booker’s defense of Sanders follows a protest of the Vermont lawmaker’s campaign stop in Seattle the day before.

Booker argued on Sunday that the incident – orchestrated by Black Lives Matter activists – shows race relations are still troubling everyday Americans.

“This is a legitimate degree of frustration in this country, in a nation that has yet to confront what I believe are persistent civil rights issues, human rights issues,” Booker said.

“Right now, we have more African Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves in 1850,” he said. “We have a nation that has states like mine that has 14, 15 percent African Americans, but the prison population is over 60 percent black.”

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