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Bernie bought out by private prisons? (Original Post)
Live and Learn
Oct 2015
OP
I'm white but I learned about Bernie from Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coallition
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2015
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newfie11
(8,159 posts)1. So very very true! Go Bernie!!!!
Our for profit prison system is an abomination!
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)2. Bernie really gets it and always has. nt
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)3. Notice this is 1991. He is so far ahead of the mainstream.
And even farther ahead of Hillary.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)4. Yes, he truly is FOR We, The People instead of for himself & the 1%
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)5. Very true! nt
ejbr
(5,856 posts)6. As a black man,
I think he could reach more blacks by showing clips like this as commercials that demonstrate his consistency on this issue over DECADES. I think one of the images he is fighting against in getting our vote is that of Bill Clinton opening his office in Harlem after his presidency. That, my friends, was extremely profound for many blacks. Many don't know anything about Hillary but LOVE her husband. He needs to step it up. It most certainly can be done.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)7. I think your right! Nt
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)10. I'm white but I learned about Bernie from Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coallition
I was a Jesse supporter, here is Bernie in 1988 talking about Jesse's candidacy for the President of the United States of America. This was in fact Bernie's first Vermont Democratic Caucus apperence.
This is 1986, Bernie addressing National Rainbow Coalition Conference
Since you mentioned 'decades' and the 80's were a few decades back.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)11. Thanks!
think
(11,641 posts)8. Bernie's been right all along /nt
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)9. On SO many issues!