Setting a record straight. There seems to be some tall tales here about why Bernie left Brooklyn.

[jillan]

I have seen comments calling it racist. I would love to post links but that is not allowed. But you can find them on the debate thread.

Bernie stayed in Brooklyn for his first year or two of college and then transferred to the University of Chicago.
Why would he do that? Sorry to disappoint, it wasn't for the comments made here ...

it was to attend the #4 top University in the United States.

After he graduated he moved to Vermont.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-100-brooklyn-roots-show-beyond-his-accent.html?_r=0
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. Holy Hell!

Why is everything Sanders has done somehow twisted to be racist... He fought for civil rights at a time when Civil Rights leaders were being assassinated; How crass...

[jillan]

2. Oh yes - he flew the city according to some....

[winter is coming]

14. What?

He "fled" Brooklyn to get away from scary black people... only to chain himself to a black woman while protesting against segregated housing policies?!

[Joe the Revelator]

3. For the same reason Hillary started the birther nonsense with Obama when she could not...

...beat him on issues. All she has is dirty tricks. Her stance on the issues suck.

[840high]

13. You got it right.

[CoffeeCat]

4. Are media members and others trying to negatively spin Bernie's NY ties?

Egad, is that what is happening?

Are people suggesting that Bernie hated NY and that is why he left? LOL!

Maybe they'll find some roommate of his at University of Chicago, who can attest that all Bernie did was complain about how NY state in general, just sucked!

And that picture of Bernie (the one that really wasn't Bernie...but then was) will be revealed to be Bernie railing against NY and urging all midwesterners to stay away from that awful state!

I imagine that is the next talking point. We should all just get in crash positions and brace for it.

[jillan]

5. Who knows where they are getting this crap from. He took a "White Flight" out of Brooklyn.

It's all posted on that thread.



Funny thing about this artful smear, these are his Brooklyn friends.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-100-brooklyn-roots-show-beyond-his-accent.html?_r=0

[hrmjustin]

6. Well i never left Brooklyn and never will.

As for Sanders i don't begrudge him starting a life outside Brooklyn. But I can never imagine leaving here.

[BernieforPres2016]

7. Here's what a profile I read on him said about this

His mother passed away around the time Bernie was finishing high school, maybe his first year in college. He wasn't happy with college in Brooklyn, thought it was kind of provincial. He wanted to get away from home, which is understandable for a college kid under any circumstances, but particularly having lived in Brooklyn in a small apartment for his entire life and having recently lost his mother. So he applied and was admitted to the University of Chicago.

Jillian, your comment says Bernie was in Vermont for his first year or two of college. I'm sure you meant to say Brooklyn.

I have the Hillary people on ignore so thankfully am not seeing whatever nonsense they're trying to tar Bernie with on his college career. I know one thing, he wasn't a supporter of Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller like his opponent was.

[jillan]

8. You're right. I'll fix that.

I was posting while fuming

[geek tragedy]

9. I'm not gonna harsh on him for moving to Vermont.

Beautiful place.

But he's no longer a Brooklynite. He's a Vermonter. He hasn't lived here for 50 years.

[CalvinballPro]

10. Graduated in 1964, moved to Vermont in 1968. NYC in between.

This is public information available on his Wikipedia, FCOL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Early_life
Sanders studied at Brooklyn College for a year in 1959–60 before transferring to the University of Chicago and graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1964. He then became a graduate student at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Your post is factually inaccurate.

[jillan]

11. Maybe you better read that again!

Ok.

Sanders attended James Madison High School, also in Brooklyn, where he was captain of the track team and took third place in the New York City indoor one-mile race.[23] In high school, Sanders lost his first election, finishing last out of three candidates for the student body presidency. Shortly after his high school graduation, his mother died in June 1959 at the age of 46;[16] his father died three years later on August 4, 1962, at the age of 57.[8]

Sanders studied at Brooklyn College for a year in 1959–60[27] before transferring to the University of Chicago and graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1964.[27] He then became a graduate student at the New School for Social Research in New York

[CalvinballPro]

12. You read it again. Brooklyn College > UoChicago > New York School for Social Research > Vermont

Certainly not Brooklyn > Chicago > Vermont as OP claims.

The New School for Social Research is located in New York City. Which means Sanders had to have come back to NYC after Chicago, before Vermont.