Why was Bernie Sander's audience at Morehouse College, an HBCU, predominantly White?
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What was that about? I don't get it....
Where did all of the actual Black Folks go? 
https://twitter.com/maryaliceparks/status/699759691539156992
https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/699768218265788416
Edited 2/19 to add video link.... https://twitter.com/maryaliceparks/status/699351962471505920
Is this some kind of joke? Or is this what we called "trying to Bamboozle"?
Edited to update & add: And I thought the place was 4500 there.....
but capacity for this particular venue is 2900 or something like that...,
and it doesn't look full....
so I don't know what "image" the media is trying to create here? Answer me that!
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Great job pushing your candidate's talking points, though . I hope you work just as hard for Bernie come November. 
we understand. Have a great evening. 
that was weird.
as the impression is that 4,500 Young Black folks came to see him speak.
Plus the "use" the Black fraternity footage to make it look like a Black event! 
Wait till I tell my BLM activist daughter about this!
Hrm...is person #543 black enough to count? We better double-check.
That is the whitest crowd EVER at a Morehouse event!
I had to LOL at this snark:
@trueblacknews @Gus_802 @BernieSanders @Morehouse It’s nice that Sanders believes in school busing. We could use more of it.
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Glenna C Eldridge ?@Aroyaldmd · Feb 17
@William53604792 @trueblacknews @lehimesa @BernieSanders @Morehouse He knew about this, didn't do one damn thing! Now he wants the POC vote
Thank you, Frenchie~
Buckaroo Banzai ?@buckaroo1260 · Feb 17
@OhioCitizen @trueblacknews @BernieSanders @Morehouse At this point, black folks are like "show me" & "talk is cheap".
read the comments.....
https://twitter.com/trueblacknews/status/699842725508747264
@trueblacknews @SouthernRock3 @BernieSanders @Morehouse Sanspders ought not think black folks are going to be taken in for a few shiny beads
@buckaroo1260 @trueblacknews @BernieSanders @Morehouse I'd like @BernieSanders to point to 1 socialist country good 4 black ppl. I'll wait.
@SouthernRock3 @trueblacknews @BernieSanders @Morehouse waiting...waiting...
@trueblacknews @lehimesa @BernieSanders @Morehouse I find it disturbing that a 95% white state Vermont has a 10% black prison population
@William53604792 @trueblacknews @lehimesa @BernieSanders @Morehouse He knew about this, didn't do one damn thing! Now he wants the POC vote
@Aroyaldmd @trueblacknews @lehimesa @BernieSanders @Morehouse it was brought to his attention on several occasions from what I understand
@trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders @Morehouse that's a lie CBS Atlanta showed video of the line that was 3 hours long in wait
. @Fried_Kimchi @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders @Morehouse it was a line full of White students who don't attend Morehouse
STIR Retweeted Mortijaé
@mybellmichell @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders @Morehouse oh like these
STIR added,
Savannah State University is headed to Morehouse for the Bernie Sanders Campaign Rally! #HBCUPride #FeeltheBern #SSU
. @Fried_Kimchi @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders Morehouse is a predominantly Black male college so he brought Black women and Whites
@mybellmichell @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders sounds like an excuse please stop
. @Fried_Kimchi @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders no sounds like you proved my point he still bussed them in
@mybellmichell @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders why would he speak at HBCU then ask a small state college 400 miles away to bus in
. @Fried_Kimchi @trueblacknews @OnePiano @BernieSanders because they know the students at Morehouse ignored the event
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and why I didn't post this anywhere but here.....
Guess I brought some "Visitors"..... 
when other white people us the term race baiting to shut down discussions of race with POC. Also add racially divisive, PC and race card to that list.
Making quite the impression, he is.
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race-bait
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also race·bait
verb
race-bait·ed, race-bait·ing, race-baits also race·bait·ed or race·bait·ing or race·baits
intransitive verb
To arouse the prejudice or fears of one racial group regarding another, especially as a political tactic.
transitive verb
To attack (another) on racial grounds, as for being a racist or for inciting racial prejudice.
To arouse the prejudices or fears of (one racial group) regarding another.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition Copyright © 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Read more at http://www.yourdictionary.com/race-bait#yM14jLJXvGwEK172.99
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the unfair use of statements about race to try to influence the actions or attitudes of a particular group of people
#3
Oxford dictionary offers the most straightforward definition of race-baiting as “the incitement or exploitation of racial hatred, prejudice, or tension, usually … for political gain.”
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Essentially, race-baiting has occurred when candidates are willing to make full use of and derive benefit from preying on implicit racial prejudices—“racial divisiveness as a campaign strategy,” as The Atlantic puts it.
Your thoughts ?
your narrative of black millenials feeling the bern or constructing an answer to an OP in your mind Hillary is driving you crazy when nothing about her came up. Stay focused and follow your own objectivity advice and end the conversation, as you so desire
in your link!
I seriously and most humbly
for calling that one after the scenario being fed of getting to know Sanders means getting more AA votes. And now the story is about diversity NOT all our young ones feeling the bern.
What kind of a campaign is this???
The hand full of "See Black Millennials feeling the bern" are non-partisan, fact-stating; whereas, an OP noting the observable predominant whiteness of a political event held by a candidate, struggling to attract Black support (and is, openly, pinning its hopes on pealing off one segment of the Black electorate) at a HBCU, within walking distance of 3 other HBCUs, in a majority Black city, is partisan "race-baiting". 
This thread is killing me!
FrenchieCat ?@FrenchieCat · 7h7 hours ago
@trueblacknews @BernieSanders @Morehouse , was called a race baiter for inquiring as to why there weren't more Black men at this rally!
Thank you so much for calling this out. I think they accuse us of "race baiting".. and I've been accused of it, too, when I stood up for #BlackLivesMatters Activists, because they want to deflect and shut down the discussion. It's one of their go to buzz phrases
Shhhh.. Not suppose to ask "why there weren't more Black men at this rally". See how that works?
I see a whole heap of white folks . . .
Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it is what it is.
Interesting that there were some "pockets" of Black folks at an Historically Black campus, where there are also 3 or 4 other HBCU colleges nearby......
But of course, I'm race baiting, according to one in thread for asking about the audience based on videos, pics, and comments made on twitter.... 
But if you think so. “Who I'm gonna believe, you or my lying eyes?” 
My white person brain sees it clearly and has been at some of the, umm, less agreeable guests to this forum.
NO ONE calls it "the U Center" (You maybe thinking of "The U" i.e. University of Miami...in Florida)
It's the "AU Center" ... or "AUC" ...
And you seem intent on missing the point of the OP...One would have expected to see more Morehouse students - which happen to be AA Males, but many pictures, videos and folks WHO WERE ACTUALLY THERE did not see as many as one would think.
This is the point of the thread, but you and your friends come in heavy handed and butt-hurt that this interpretation of imagery seems obvious to many that the crowd wasn't "predominantly" ("Mainly"; "Mostly", "Largely", "Chiefly"; "Primarily"
Black.
Get over it, and move on, please. You are embarrassing yourselves.
I'm happy that Bernie visited my Alma Mater and spoke at a venue that has my name on the wall (you can almost see it in the pictures posted!). My friends who were there said the event was a positive one, but that they had hoped that more students of color from the surrounding schools (including Spelman, CAU, Morehouse Med School, ITC, GA State, GA Tech) were in attendance.
Please remember where you are, since truly, your responses have been a "real thing of beauty".
To be fair ... people with NO association to, or know of Morehouse (except that it exists ... and is an HBCU, e.g., the always more knowing "My friends"
, might.I think we could make this thing happen.
Just dump our respective spouses and move to the same continent and we can make this HAPPEN! 
23, you know you made my day (again!) 
You don't have nearly as much "baggage" around here as the rest of us. Not that that will make a bit of difference to our "allies" out there who insult the hell out of us with one hand and then demand our votes with the other.
some of that reading you're snarkily telling me to do in a protected group.
This is the thread title, and there's no "not predominantly black" in there:
Why was Bernie Sander's audience at Morehouse College, an HBCU, predominantly White?
If you know Morehouse--and you don't, I can tell--you would be hard put to find a white face within the confines of that campus and the surrounding environs on a given day if you were given a prize for so doing. I've seen the videos, and the MOREHOUSE MEN (it's a men's school, you see) were in the very distinct minority at that event. They basically loaned their school out for a photo op. That half-filled venue (and it was poorly attended, given the size of the school, and the capacity of the coliseum -- which was half filled) looked like someone knocked over the salt - n- peppa shakers. Had that audience been representative of the campus, you'd have not seen women there, never mind all those white women (were they from Spellman--LOL?) and you would not have seen ANY white people, save Bernie and his wife and most of his staff.
Even the BLACK students in that crowd were bused in--unless you're going to insist that Savannah" is "next door," too (a four hour bus ride "next door" ....smh!!!
http://www.tigersroar.com/news/article_9b053a06-d67f-11e5-8825-5713d0b2ba1d.html
Savannah State University (SSU) students traveled to Morehouse College in Atlanta Tuesday night for the ‘Feel the Bern Tour’. In hopes of gaining more minority votes Senator Bernie Sanders launched the tour to travel to 8 historically black colleges and universities.
After about a four hour bus ride the tour bus arrived on Morehouse campus, both anxious and exhausted students prepared to see Sen. Bernie Sanders.
There were a number of vivacious speakers and supporters of Sen. Sanders who graced the stage and shared their personal experiences and praises of the senator. Some of the speakers included actress Jasmine Guy and rapper Killer Mike.
Big finish:
No more than thirty percent of the attendees at Bernie’s Morehouse rally were black. Moreover, about half of them were female. But Morehouse College is 98.3% black and 99.8% male. So no more than fifteen percent of the attendees at the Morehouse rally could have been Morehouse students. In other words, around four thousand white kids appeared out of thin air at an all-black school, in a mostly black neighborhood, in a majority black city. Did they fall out of the sky?
Who are these four thousand white kids? Where did they come from? It’s fair to ask if they were bused in from elsewhere, and if they’re the same white kids who keep appearing at Bernie’s supposedly black-centric rallies across the south. These are the questions that every news outlet in the country should be asking today. In fact the media asked those same questions when Trump was holding curiously large and mostly white rallies in southern black towns. But Bernie continues to get a free pass, because his campaign is still too ratings-friendly for the media to want to poke the obvious holes in it just yet.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-holds-mostly-white-rally-at-all-black-college/23858/
Response to MADem (Reply #134)
My Gawd, he can't pack a black college with the black millennials who feel the Bern.
Wow, this is sad. But yeah, diversity it means the same thing I'm finding out.
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[/img] TrueBlackNews ?@trueblacknews
A @BernieSanders rally at @Morehouse. Black students ignore event, White Supporters bused in #blacklivesmatter
8:28 PM - 16 Feb 2016
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Andre Forbes ?@andref1989
@trueblacknews @BernieSanders @Morehouse @WhiskeyInSpace I've never seen that many non- black people in the west end in my 4 years there 😂
3:56 AM - 17 Feb 2016
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http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/17/chat-away-775/city like the Grateful Dead. I won't say what they call them, but you know, right? This charade will come to a close some time in May. What this tells me is that the Morehouse thing was a charade from start to finish, possibly because there wasn't enough interest from the student body? But it helps create a certain "illusion", if you know what I mean.
over what is real.
