Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders keeps promise made in private to Sandra Bland’s mother
In an era when every moment is tweeted and politicized, Bernie Sanders elected not to capitalize on a meaningful meeting with the mother of Sandra Bland.
The chance encounter reportedly took place at East Street Café, a Thai restaurant at Union Station in Washington, D.C., five days before the first Democratic presidential debate.
The Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner, a pastor at St. Johns Church in downtown Houston, wrote in her blog about noticing the Vermont senator at another table while she was eating dinner with Geneva Reed-Veal, whose daughter became a face of the Black Lives Matter campaign following her death in police custody in July.
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He simply made space for a sacred moment and then let it pass without trying to gain anything from it, Bonner said. For that, I respect him. For that, I am grateful. That choice may not have made him a very good politician, but it made him a better man.
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PatrickforO
(14,594 posts)thundered at Anderson Cooper, "Enough with the damned emails, already! Let's talk about issues..."
Bernie is one of the few statesmen left in American politics. A statesman (or woman) is a politician who cares more about doing the right thing than getting elected.
Bernie is a class act and I'm proud to be supporting him.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)He's that and more.
Go Bernie, GO!!!!
tblue
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(5,217 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)Bernie is in the 1%!!!