He's not going to abandon a righteous cause because of a couple of loose cannons.

There is no need for them to force their way onto the stage....we are all on the same side.

How is it possible? Duers ought to set Bernie straight so he doesn't associate with the riff raff people here have been talking down the past three days.

Between condemnation of tactics and message.

Bernie gave a spotlight to the real movement, not the paid impostors being used to swiftboat.
This does confuse those that support those that paid them, as is to be expected.

This is a great moment.

That doesn't mean we don't support the goals and work of BLM.

You can join the rest of us in celebrating the increasing spotlight being shone on this issue that you care about.

...and

I'm not the one who has been losing my shit ever since three black women got up on stage with Bernie.

I'm sure you've kept track of it pretty well.

This was just to make it easier for you.

It's all good. I'm going to enjoy the backtrack from BLM being agitating Soros-Clinton plants to a okay since that have the Bernie stamp of approval now. That's all the medicine I need.

and what have you got against BLM, anyway?

They didn't need to disrupt. That was just the clown show of the left.

Martin Luther King demonstrated, but he never resorted to insulting his allies even if they were white.

The disruption at Netroots Nation and in Washington were nothing more than anti-democratic, childish outbursts.

Bernie is and has been strongly on the side of Black people and civil rights issues since his student days through the present.

It was great to hear the presentation tonight on the Black Lives Matter issues. The crowd went wild with support for the Black Lives Matter message brought in a way that was inclusive of -- the crowd and of Bernie rather than combative against the very liberal crowd that Black Lives Matter needs to support it.

Met social workers, people who work daily with the issues that Black Lives Matter is talking about.

The Los Angeles Bernie event was just wonderful, harmonious, huge crowd. I am thrilled that so many really good people, real, down-to-earth people are supporting Bernie. We will be working hard to get him elected. You can count on that.

have been fighting for for DECADES? You seem more concerned about USING the issue. I would think anyone who sincerely cared about it would be happy that the disrupters were exposed and have not harmed the entire movement as they could have, were the people who actually care about this issue, using it too. But sincere people will never, ever stoop that low as to use something as important as this is, for political purposes.

The total disrespect towards Symone Sanders from them eg, shows it isn't about AA issues at all.

Enough of this, the public has spoken AAs have spoken and people are sick to death of these dirty tricks and mostly the cynical attempt to play a race card only THEY are willing to play,

We've moved on so to continue to try to use this will will rase a lot of questions as to WHY.

BLM central has not denounced Marissa. That entire story circulating was false. People certainly have been exposed, but it is not BLM. It is those who have showed they seen the comfort of one politician and their own feelings as more important than the movement to protest an epidemic of killings of people of color. They have exposed the fact their political worldview is entirely bound to white middle class privilege to the hostile exclusion of the human rights and lives of the subaltern. So yes, there has been a great deal of exposing going on, but it hasn't been of Marissa Johnson and her fellow protesters. It has been of those who hold their own comfort and egos above the rights of the many, who stand in opposition to everything except self-entitlement.

I'm afraid I do not share your view that Bernie Sanders is intrinsically superior to other politicians or other human beings, or that his supporters are better than the rest of the human race. I find that entire notion utterly reprehensible. I believe in human equality. I believe in leftist activism, in movements that challenge power and authority for the rights of the many over the few, which means challenging those who seek the highest office in the country. Black votes have put Democrats in office for decades, and yet racism and racial violence proliferates. Black people have every right to challenge elected officials, and anyone committed to human equality has a responsibility to support their efforts.

Unfortunately, BLM did not open for Bernie. That would have been a stroke of political brilliance on his part. Sadly, someone saw his press secretary, a black woman, and concluded it was BLM, presumably because they think all black women look alike.

Don't for a second mistake me for a person that buys the self-righteous cant you're peddling. I see right through it. Oh, I know you believe what you say. That, however, doesn't make it any better. Rather, it simply exposes the shallow foundation on which your claims of leftism are based on. The rights of the people should always come before those of the political elite or the few. Without that basic commitment, there can be no social or economic justice. When people so easily through BLM overboard, I know they will not think twice before doing the same to the rest of the subaltern they so easily dismiss as less important.

Now perhaps you ought to return to explaining how Corey Booker went from corporate sell out to righteous defender of Bernie's character in a few short weeks. That will take some 'splaining.

But now, as other's have pointed out, you are actually showing just how little you care about the actual issue of BLM and choose, instead, to use it as a political football.

associates with everyone, and showed that he appreciates BLM. He refused to separate himself from the movement, stood up for it, and is the kind of person that doesn't fear those that challenge his positions. He doesn't need to.

What riff raff are you referring to, BainsBane?

I am getting way too many flashbacks to 2008...

Very diverse L.A. crowd, in terms of age, gender, culture, orientation, et al....

Very electrifying all around -- especially with how starkly Bernie lays it all out...

It was a very mixed crowd. And very receptive to what he and the speakers said. It was great!

He just doubled his qualification to be president: instead of trying to suppress the disruptions (which they were up in Washington, and probably right-wing orchestrated too), Sanders just incorporates the movemnet into his platform - literally: he shares the platform (stage) with them.

Please, can we just elect him already?

My initial reaction to the Seattle interruption was anger, but I got over it by the next morning when I realized that Bernie "had this."

He had it under control because he truly believes in their movement and the civil rights of all.

It was a wonderful experience.

rally. I've gotta say DAMN there were a whole lotta young folks there. I'm more confident than ever that Bernie will lead the political revolution we so badly need to save this country. Feelin' The Bern BIGTIME!

But I love this song. I want it on a CD so I can play it loud in my car with the windows down and my Bernie bumper sticker on the rear of the car, and some fringe candidate signs on the side windows.

Then I'll just cruise around my town and wave at people...and maybe I'll have to make a bumper sticker that says "Honk if you Feel the Bern"

This man is so smart and so authentic and compassionate, and I just love to watch the enthusiasm building.



When will there be bumper sticker gifs so we can have the feel the bern frog on our bumpers too!

His message is just there. It's just honest. The crowd is completely with him on every issue. (At least that is the feeling in the stadium.)

No rhetorical gimmicks.

Nothing phony. Just tells it like it is.

Very few "jokes" to warm up the crowd. Very rarely is there a metaphor or any kind of literary trick. He gets right straight down to listing the issues and his proposals. I have never heard a speech like his, and I have heard a lot of speeches, a lot of speeches. (Even given a few.)

He doesn't talk about oh, that young mother he met in Philadelphia or the farmer he talked to in Iowa. He talks issues, and the crowd loves him for it. All that stuff that politicians go on about to try to be folksy -- too phony for Bernie.

You'd think he would lose the crowd with his straight, no-nonsense Vermont approach to speechifying.

But no. He discusses briefly and clearly each problem facing us in its turn, and then offers his solution. It's dry. And everybody loves it because it is just so darned down-to-earth.

I'm not a politician, but I have been active in politics for some years off and on. Again, it was not the usual "political" crowd, not the same old faces, not the folks who run the community. I did not see any members of our City Council or any state senators or representatives although they may have been there.

Bernie's press secretary spoke about Black Lives Matter to huge cheers. The support from the crowd was unanimous and fervent on that issue. A young woman representing immigrants spoke, and representatives of the union that is on strike (I think) against United Airlines plus a representative from a nurses union spoke. Sarah Silverman introduced Bernie. I think I am leaving out a speaker and I apologize if I am.

The Bernie crowd includes a lot of people who usually don't vote and who are not involved in politics. They are not going to vote for any candidate other than Bernie for the most part. The crowd is devoted to Bernie. Many of them will not just vote for a default Democrat.

I think Bernie could well win the Democratic nomination, and if he does that, he probably will win the presidency.

Bernie makes it very clear that he will raise taxes on the 1%, do everything possible to end the use of tax havens by the very rich, avoid the kinds of trade agreements that have ruined our economy and taken our jobs and put people, not corporations in charge of the country.

Bernie is the best candidate I have seen in my lifetime.

And he is realistic about the fact that he can't make the changes we need all by himself. He is telling us that we have to be the movement behind him that gets things done.

One more thing: I really felt the Bern. It was so strong. I don't think that supporters of other candidates can know what that is like. It isn't just a slogan. It is a sense of quiet determination and of moral certainty that we just have to change our country for the better and that we can do it if we work together with determination.

This is great news! This is a very serious time for America. I'm so glad he doesn't waste time with anecdotal trivia that is the stock of all politicians these days.

Quote from you:

at North Park, I used the same phrase the Atlantic used. It is an eat your spinach and you will like it speech, and the crowds are going GIVE ME MORE!

I was joking with a city council regular, that maybe we should get the crowd to go over the city budget while at it.

Or was it Symone Sanders, his new press Secretary? She opened the Portland rally with a powerful speech about BLM.

This is a very radical group and could end up doing a lot more harm than good (for Black Americans and Bernie).

This county is in desperate need of another Martin Luther King.

On edit: Was it is the press secretary or BLM because a lot of online articles are referring to it being BLM?

BLM did not open this event............his new campaign manager Symone Sanders did....his newly hired National Press Secretary. She is not a member or a representative of BLM. I'd say more, but I'd get jury swarmed.

It's sheer genius.

Now we can move ahead without the distraction that a couple of people with some strange histories tried to create.

I'm not a news organization.

I'm an anonymous poster on a chat board and I explained what happened when I posted this first in real time. I think people get it.

Hats off to Bernie and his team.