Bernie Sanders visits King Center, eats fried chicken with Killer Mike

[Omaha Steve]

In LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141269327

[wendylaroux]

1. Whoa!! Killer Mike was awesome!!!!!

he was making me tear up here,lol,I never do that.

[840high]

2. I wish I had been there.

[bravenak]

3. Me too. I wish you were there too.

[Bobbie Jo]

16. lol

[ismnotwasm]

4. Ummm

Good on Sanders? Honestly I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

[lib87]

5. Good for Him Visiting the King Center

I spent some time lmao reading the 2 gdp post about BS eating a meal with a rapper most of the people getting happy about have no clue who he is or can name a song by him.

[Number23]

6. Girl, I been a hip hop head since '87 and *I* can't name a single track by this brother

Ever notice how all of the celebrating over Sanders' black support is around people that nobody has ever heard of or don't want to have heard of (Cornell)??

There were 477 threads in GD when a person named Nina Turner unendorsed Hillary to endorse Sanders. Amid all the rapture and hallelujiahs!!one! from the converted somebody finally asked who she was and I was glad 'cause I had no idea either.

Apparently she was a former state Senator from Ohio. But the way these folks were carrying the fuck on you would have thought it was Michelle Obama endorsing Sanders. I have no doubt Ms. Turner has done some great work in Ohio but the screaming of her endorsement was about 1000 times heavier than the weight of the endorsement itself. It was kind of desperate and pitiful.

[JI7]

8. i think Nina Turner was one of the better endorsements for Sanders

it was a great endorsement and he deserves credit.

but i agree with the reaction coming off as desperate and pitiful. so even something that is positive for him is turned into something sad and embarrassing by his so called "supporters".

and just now the lectures about mlk from the one who refers to blacks and gays as having stockholm are starting up again.

[Number23]

9. Exactly. Her endorsement wasn't the problem it was the screaming and completely disproportionate

reaction to it. The desperate shrillness of the "celebrations" was incredibly obvious and embarrassing.

Yep. The MLK lectures continue as do the CONSTANT stream of posts about black people from people who are not only NOT black but ones that the handful of black people who post here wouldn't give the time of day to. It's hysterical.

[zappaman]

10. Give him a listen!

This album reminds me of old Ice Cube.

and his group is pretty good too.

[Number23]

12. Damn, I never heard of him and he's from Atlanta???! WTF!!

Yeah, there is definitely an Ice Cube sound going on there. Like if Ice Cube had a slight Southern accent. He's not bad.

I only listened to the first track but it didn't sound all that political. I don't think he'll be giving PE or BDP a run for their money in the political sense. And I don't think he'll be giving Outkast a run for their money in the super popular Atlanta rappers sense. But he was all right. Thanks for posting that, zap.

[zappaman]

14. Here ya go

Political

[Recursion]

7. Hm. Food is always fraught in ways that are difficult to predict.

I'd be careful, were I the Sanders campagin...

[Kind of Blue]

11. Lols, the title sounds like an Onion piece

and I don't know who Killer Mike is but I'm soooo old school hip-hop that I remember its birth. So I'm not sure of his importance at all. I've read about 6 articles, mostly circulated from AJC, but could only find 2 AAs talking about this from the practically all white attendees. It would be great to know what Dr. Bernice King thought but only one article said she refused to comment after her private meeting with Sanders. I'd love to be a fly on the wall during that talk!

I'm sure she'll meet with HRC who'll give the keynote speech at the 2-day event to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott next week. But kind of feel right now she may not comment since I can't find her politics anywhere except she's a conservative and a protestor against gay and lesbian marriage. Whew, interesting legacy given her mom felt gay rights was part of her husband's dream.

[Number23]

13. Ha! We are showing our age in this thread!

but I'm soooo old school hip-hop that I remember its birth.

Me too! And most of the new stuff I just have no interest in. God, we sound soooo old. And I've got like 5 gray hairs.

Zappaman posted some of Killer Mike's music upthread. I've never heard of this brother and having heard what I just heard just makes me want to get in my car and play some Tribe Called Quest and ride off into the sunset. All of the artists I was unintentionally comparing Killer Mike to were old school, CLASSIC old school. From what I just heard, the brother sounds all right but he won't be taking any space in my CD (yes girl, CD!) cabinet or Ipad any time soon.

[Kind of Blue]

15. Ugh, they're sprouting up all over

my head. I'm deciding whether to fight it by dyeing it the natural dark brown. Or get it over with it with silver dye because of some really exquisite colors on women of all ages I'm seeing IRL. Just a few below but the first one is what my fro is looking like.

Life is a trip indeed. I always wondered if I'd still be jamming to hip-hop so many years ago and here I am. Where did the time go?

Thanks, I'll give Killer Mike a listen tonight! Cool!







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[JI7]

17. it looks like they died their hair in those pics

because they look so young since blacks and others with dark skin tend to age very slowly.

[Kind of Blue]

18. Yes, dye it and get it over with.

Nice to see it as a choice for all ages nowadays.