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LiberalArkie

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Thu Oct 29, 2015, 11:16 AM Oct 2015

We Have Got To Stand Together and End All Forms of Racism



Bernie describes his Jewish history to a American Islamic Girl.


“They told white workers who were earning pennies an hour, ‘Hey, you think you’re in trouble, but you’re better off than the blacks,'” he said. “And they told straight people, ‘You’re better off than those gay people.’ And they pitted men against women. It’s always playing one group against another. That’s how the rich got richer while everybody else was fighting each other. Our job is to build a nation in which we all stand together.”

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We Have Got To Stand Together and End All Forms of Racism (Original Post) LiberalArkie Oct 2015 OP
K&R! marym625 Oct 2015 #1
K & R. It was wonderful seeing this young Islamic American woman call for justice and appalachiablue Oct 2015 #2

appalachiablue

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2. K & R. It was wonderful seeing this young Islamic American woman call for justice and
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 02:02 PM
Oct 2015

Bernie speaking to the issue and adding his family's history. The National Student Town Hall last night at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. was a very successful public event by Sanders campaign with 1,500 college students attending from the DC Metro area. The Town Hall event was also viewed online at 300 US campuses through 250 Student Groups in all 50 states.

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