"African American Leaders in Vermont: We Are All So Proud of Bernie Sanders"

[Mufaddal]

Patrick Brown, executive director of the Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, has this to say about Bernie Sanders: "We are all so proud of him."

Oddly enough, Brown's words appear in a recent piece attacking Sanders, that said Vermont's black leaders found they were invisible to him. The premise is strikingly at odds with Bown's account - which, ironically, is buried more than 650 words into the piece. Before his words in praise of Sanders appear, however, three other individuals critical of Sanders are quoted. While Brown's active status as a black leader in Vermont is inarguable, the others aren't so clear; they include a lawyer for an international finance and aerospace corporation; the founder of an organization that Bizapedia lists as 'inactive'; and the executive director of an organization based 150 miles from Burlington, who seems also to be its lone member. Which is not to say that they are not leaders; but it is an extremely odd choice to present their views as the only relevant ones, especially since Brown, who clearly has a long history with Sanders, could speak from extensive experience about Sanders' relationship with the African American community in Vermont.

It gets weirder, though. The 'inactive' organization, the African American Alliance of the Northeast Kingdom, appears in one other website apart from the Bizapedia listing: across the top of a page on a libertarian website, whose sole content is a link to a rough paraphrase of the original article. The paraphrase, titled "Black Leaders Skewer Sanders: He's Neglected Us", does not include Brown's praise for Sanders. The name of the inactive organization is extremely prominent; the name of the libertarian website it appears on it is far smaller, and is easily missed (see image).



It is hard to imagine why you would format a page that way; at first glance, it seems to be a page for the inactive organization. That could be the intent, however. If you do a search for the organization, the libertarian site is the top result, with the defunct organization's name appearing as the link - exactly as if it were the website for the organization (see image below). If you were doing a quick fact-check, you'd find the libertarian site, and no others; and, if you looked quickly, you could easily mistake that page for the defunct organization's website, and consider the story confirmed.

Full article with links and images: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liam-miller/african-american-leaders-in-vermont_b_9300672.html

[nc4bo]

1. Things that come from HRCs direction that should make us go Hmmmm.nt

[freddyt]

2. Hillary is running the dirtiest campaign in recent memory.

Her supporters should be so proud.

[jillan]

3. Yup very sleazy.

[Nyan]

4. I also remember he did very well with AA voters in New Hampshire.

The whole talk of "AA voters this" and "AA voters that" has gotten to be ridiculous.
No voting bloc is monolithic. Each part of the country has different views and concerns that affect AA voters to decide which way they go.
So he does well with AA voters in New England, and perhaps less than good in the South. He does better among black progressives, and perhaps less than good with religious types. Nothing so fascinating about that.

[lawexpert]

5. Only one black voted for Sanders in 2012

Amazing shit. Only one black man voted for Bernie Sanders in 2012 in the entire State of Vermont: http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/vermont/senate/#.Vs_9s9DflaU

Let that sink in for a while.

[gordyfl]

6. Do You Mean 1% -- From the "Exit Poll" ?

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I believe you were looking at 1% -- as in Hillary Clinton.

[jfern]

8. I'm sure Bernie got thousands of black votes

[Chakab]

9. The only that has sunk in is your pathetic level of reading comprehension.

[Flying Squirrel]

12. 4 posts and already on my ignore list.

I dislike dishonest people.

[Depaysement]

11. Read your own link

It says 1% of the vote was African-American but does not record total black votes.

[PaulaFarrell]

13. Firstly you're wrong

Secondly, why do you say 'one black man' instead of woman? by the way, the race by gender show both black men and women at 0% of the vote, whereas the total is 1% - so clearly they are rounding results down.

[Live and Learn]

15. One would think a law expert would pay closer attention to details. nt

[MisterP]

20. "a Black"?

[jfern]

7. David Brock fools a lot of people

[Peace Patriot]

10. Oh, no! Not again!

[Live and Learn]

14. K&R nt

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Mufaddal.

[berniesandero]

17. K&R

[Tom Rinaldo]

18. K&R n/t

[Nanjeanne]

19. Wonder what would have happened if instead of the bogus bs being tweeted all over the place

some actualy "journalist" would have done some research and discovered the total untruthfulness of the article and reported on that instead!