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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm Black. Old Blacks have failed us. It's time for Young Blacks to make our stand on Super Tuesday [View all]liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)139. South Carolina Blacks are Old Blacks
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I'm Black. Old Blacks have failed us. It's time for Young Blacks to make our stand on Super Tuesday [View all]
johnlucas
Feb 2016
OP
That's not Bernie Sanders in that picture. Don't spread it. Please delete it.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#1
The HELL he wasn't! Bernie was in the SNCC. FACT. BTW ask Danny Lyon the photographer
johnlucas
Feb 2016
#16
The pictures of him in Chicago are real. The picture of the guy right behind MLK is NOT Bernie
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#18
Somebody else posts a questionable picture and I have to either accept it or disprove it?
BernieforPres2016
Feb 2016
#50
There are Bernie supporters all over DU saying this. There is even a thread devoted to it.
BernieforPres2016
Feb 2016
#77
IIRC, Sanders was in both CORE and SNCC. However, I don't think that is Sanders in your pic.
merrily
Feb 2016
#158
How the fuck did you get that from the OP? Oh, that's right. You didn't. The OP said the opposite.
merrily
Feb 2016
#154
After I hit the picture with the circle in it, I stopped reading. HE WASN'T THERE.
MADem
Feb 2016
#3
Some of us are just too defensive. It's the history of the country causing that. Continue to speak
johnlucas
Feb 2016
#22
It doesn't matter what he says if his OP is pushing a falsehood that can hurt Bernie.
passiveporcupine
Feb 2016
#89
What he said is the truth and let's stop pretending some internet posts
DemocraticSocialist8
Feb 2016
#23
So this is what it has become? Claiming people are lying about race? smh...
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#36
Yes you can read ... but to get there (i.e., Sanders is a racist claim) ...
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2016
#169
ya run with that "fake" insinuation if you need to, but be sure to read this and note the date too
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#45
Think what you want. I'm gonna do my best to get him the win in Georgia on Tuesday
johnlucas
Feb 2016
#33
Thank you for writing, thank you for your passion! I feel we NEED Bernie in order to take back
peacebird
Feb 2016
#67
I voted for Hillary in the GA primary. My mother initially supported Sanders but has become so
Number23
Feb 2016
#85
Bernie's tactics of having some of the biggest trolls on the planet among his loudest supporters
Number23
Feb 2016
#190
I didn't make an accusation. That would be you and your endless running around DU
Number23
Mar 2016
#230
Private Message me the term if you don't wanna say it here & we'll talk about it
johnlucas
Feb 2016
#93
+100. That is a damn good post -- patriotic while calling out the injustices our country let stand!
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#84
That is not Sanders in the photograph - even his campaign has admitted it (several times)
George II
Feb 2016
#46
Failed... no. Each generation stands on the shoulders of the previous. It is then up to the next..
FighttheFuture
Feb 2016
#56
What an idiotic and disgusting post. I'm black and don't have a gray hair yet and I reject every
Number23
Feb 2016
#81
Advising restraint is not STFU. But if you hear STFU, when what was actually said was ...
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2016
#153
As if black DUers aren't aware that certain black DUers get on the DU list
Chitown Kev
Feb 2016
#155
Sketchy. You want to be able to hold a non-conformist to account? Yikes. [nt]
Jester Messiah
Feb 2016
#131
So why not discuss the issues you disagree with from the OP instead of posting innuendo?
jonestonesusa
Feb 2016
#102
Keep pushing that meme and I guarantee that the black vote will be lost all over. i can't
Jitter65
Feb 2016
#107
And then these same poor Blacks carried Rahm's backer Hillary in Illinois last night
johnlucas
Mar 2016
#233
John thank you for furthering illuminating the many light bulbs that went on
nadinbrzezinski
Feb 2016
#174
Why Lewis chose to soil his reputation by lying about Sanders, I will never understand.
Betty Karlson
Feb 2016
#194
I don't know. Reasonable people can disagree about ideas and how they are expressed.
jonestonesusa
Feb 2016
#223
As a black female person - with old white men heading this country forever.....
Farmbrook
Feb 2016
#208