2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Bernie said in June of this year about Black Lives Matter. Did the hecklers know? [View all]giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)that are occurring in this country which is why I said he slinked it back around to unemployment. The BLM movement is concerned with the fact the our families are being torn apart by the fact that our family members are being murdered for no reason & with no repercussions. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the unemployment rate. My son could be running to baseball from school simply bc he is running late & runs the chance of being shot by a cop because he has headphones in & doesn't hear the cop say anything to him. These are very real issues for us & by far outweigh a lot of the other issues he is running on because BLACK LIVES MATTER.
I want my children to be able to wear headphones & run without the fear of dying at the hands of a trigger happy cop, simply because of the color of their skin.
Unemployment can be fixed, but it won't do a damn bit a good if they keep offing us. Sanders needs to understand that our lives are on the line every single day, every time we leave the house & at this point he just doesn't seem to get it.