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In reply to the discussion: Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us [View all]Lancero
(3,003 posts)You know what the crowd did at his speach?
Right as the protests walked on stage the mainly WHITE crowd called for them to be arrested. Before they even started talking, white people - completely afraid of what they had to say - immediately cried out for the police to remove them.
They called for four and a half minutes of silence, symbolic of the four and a half hours that Michael Browns body was left to lay in a street... The crowd responded with profanities, likely including quite a few racial slurs.
Sanders was given a chance to stand with the protesters on stage. He refused, choosing to stand on the side, and later to leave all together.
He was given a chance to stand together with them - A example of the unity he loves to talk about. He refused to do so.