This is an interesting article. Posted in the AA Group
Bernie Sanders Tries to Meet with Black Leaders but Nobody Shows Up: Only 6 Congressional Black Caucus Members Attendhttp://www.blackpressusa.com/bernie-sanders-tries-to-meet-with-black-leaders-but-nobody-shows-up-only-6-congressional-black-caucus-members-attend/#sthash.XCEgbduk.gg1roSP0.dpbs
Goes along with this article:
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/bernie-sanders-wows-exuberant-atlanta-crowd/nndC6/
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders brought his insurgent campaign and populist message to Atlanta on Friday and wowed a crowd of more than 1,200.....Austin Carter, 24, a contractor and Navy veteran, said he first became intrigued with Sanders a few years ago, and now that the Vermont senator is running, Carter, who paid $50 to attend Friday night’s rally, is ready to help.
“It’s the money in politics issue that resonates with me,” Carter said.
The crowd at Sanders’ event was unusual for a Democratic Party gathering in Georgia in that it was overwhelmingly white. Sanders’ ability — or lack thereof — to attract African-American voters, who make up large chunks of the Democratic base, has dogged his campaign.
Clinton’s campaign is aware of the pale nature of Sanders’ support and has said Georgia and other Southern states will help propel her to the nomination.
Tharon Johnson, a top Democratic operative in Georgia who helped lead President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign in the South, said Sanders must find a way to draw more support from black voters.
The population of Atlanta is over five million, and is 1/3 black.
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"overwhelmingly white" crowd in a way that makes even the tiniest bit of sense and doesn't show some major deficiencies in their campaign, I would be much obliged.
But thank God, at least he left Cornel at home. This time. 
Should have ditched him YESTERDAY. Or even smarter, never aligned himself with the man to begin with.
(Except apparently, Alan Grayson)
So if you want to invite him or anyone else, I say go for it! But don't get your hopes too high. 
If he ever shows up we'll know who to thank. 
No words 
Negrotown. 
It is CRAWLING with black people and was one of the first major American cities with black folks in all levels of government. Has had black mayors forever.
And like you said, these are black folks with historical knowledge and understanding and got the education on top of that.
not a one born in the south. And I think perhaps because the cost of living/housing is less (you get more bang for the buck) plus the storied civil rights history as a black political powerhouse (really ratcheting up with Maynard Jackson). My great-grandfather graduated from Atlanta U in 1883 (and my great-grandmother a year or so later)... And with all the historically black colleges there you would think... But if one is there speaking on frequencies that we can't hear because they are out of sync when they reach us, then we certainly won't respond. 
the end, afaic. All of the desperate blanketing of this web site with "Sanders, Sanders he's our man!" and nervously high fiving each other won't change any of that.
I posted a few weeks ago I searched black media up and down and back up again trying to find a pro-Sanders piece anywhere. I looked in every bit of black media I could find. Girl, I even looked at the Jet magazine web site!
And I found... NOTHING. Not ONE pro-Sanders piece in black media. But I did find the piece you linked to and a veritable SLEW of articles from people disappointed in his campaign's addressing of black issues as well as a ton of pieces from black people, from white people, from multiracial people absolutely beyond disgusted by the quality and behavior of his supporters.
One can't begrudgingly try to pick up where one left off when the heart is not really in it.
I honestly don't know if that's it or not. But SOMETHING is holding this man back on this issue.
my posting being called a "jihad" against Sanders by a clearly desperate and disturbed Sanders supporter.
He's polling 3% in black communities in SC right now. That appears to be okay to some of his supporters. The sin is POINTING OUT that he's only polling at 3% in AA communities and not screaming "Halejujiah!" when someone posts the inevitable pics of him standing next to a brown person or of any brown person being in the vicinity of his events. Even if the brown person is openly supporting someone else. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/opinion/charles-m-blow-bernie-sanders-and-the-black-vote.html?_r=0
Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders spoke Saturday to a half empty gymnasium at Benedict College in South Carolina. The school is historically black, but the crowd appeared to be largely white.
What the EVER LOVING HELL??!!!
There is an idealistic crusader in the man, possibly to the point of being quixotic, but at least it doesn’t come off as having been corrupted by money or power or the God complex that so often attends those in pursuit of the seat behind the Resolute Desk.
That, I agree with completely.
