Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Ben Jealous - Full Endorsement Statement
and it's wonderful. Also Mr. Jealous is campaigning all day today in SC with State Rep Justin Bamberg! Lots of events.
I clipped the endorsement but it's so good - it was real hard to leave anything out. Read it here: https://berniesanders.com/i-endorse-bernie-sanders-for-president/?platform=hootsuite
I Endorse Bernie Sanders for President
FEBRUARY 5, 2016| BY BEN JEALOUS
As prepared for delivery on February 5, 2016:
Thank you. It’s good to be back in New Hampshire. People may wonder why a former head of the NAACP would come all the way up here to speak on behalf of a senator from New England. So let me explain why I’m here.
I am here because my family, like our American family, stretches from the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the black soil of the South. My black grandparents fell in love at Virginia State University, and my white grandparents fell in love right here in Lebanon, New Hampshire, at the local high school.
Growing up in a family that mirrors much of our American family, I can attest to the fact that, if there is one thing that unites our nation as a family, it is our love for our children and our growing concern that the American Dream must not die on our watch. I’ve been awakened by phone calls about a black cousin murdered in Maryland’s streets. I have lain awake at night worried about a white family member, raised not far from here, who was struggling with drug addiction.
I have sat amongst the young people warehoused in our prisons — the most incarcerated Black, Brown, Red and, yes, White men and women on the planet.
And as I speak at colleges and universities across our country, I leave each event haunted by the uniquely high levels of debt borne by our children of all colors who are lucky enough to make it to college…. and the despair that comes from not being able to remember when our nation was not at war.
Each time I travel I come face to face with the violence and addiction that flourishes amongst joblessness.
Each time I travel I am confronted by that joblessness, which has been accelerated by bad domestic policies and even worse foreign policy.
I am here because my family, like our American family, stretches from the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the black soil of the South. My black grandparents fell in love at Virginia State University, and my white grandparents fell in love right here in Lebanon, New Hampshire, at the local high school.
Growing up in a family that mirrors much of our American family, I can attest to the fact that, if there is one thing that unites our nation as a family, it is our love for our children and our growing concern that the American Dream must not die on our watch. I’ve been awakened by phone calls about a black cousin murdered in Maryland’s streets. I have lain awake at night worried about a white family member, raised not far from here, who was struggling with drug addiction.
I have sat amongst the young people warehoused in our prisons — the most incarcerated Black, Brown, Red and, yes, White men and women on the planet.
And as I speak at colleges and universities across our country, I leave each event haunted by the uniquely high levels of debt borne by our children of all colors who are lucky enough to make it to college…. and the despair that comes from not being able to remember when our nation was not at war.
Each time I travel I come face to face with the violence and addiction that flourishes amongst joblessness.
Each time I travel I am confronted by that joblessness, which has been accelerated by bad domestic policies and even worse foreign policy.
<snip>
And I recall the words of the late great Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that “a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
And that is why I am here today.
Bernie Sanders has been principled, courageous, and consistent in fighting the evils that Dr. King referred to as the “giant triplets” of racism, militarism, and greed:
As a student in the early 1960s, he got arrested fighting to integrate university housing in Chicago.
Today, as a Senator…. he has an A+ rating from the NAACP.
As a candidate for president, he has the best plan for ending mass incarceration and improving community policing.
And that is why I am here today.
Bernie Sanders has been principled, courageous, and consistent in fighting the evils that Dr. King referred to as the “giant triplets” of racism, militarism, and greed:
As a student in the early 1960s, he got arrested fighting to integrate university housing in Chicago.
Today, as a Senator…. he has an A+ rating from the NAACP.
As a candidate for president, he has the best plan for ending mass incarceration and improving community policing.
<snip>
In short:
Bernie Sanders has the courage to confront the institutionalized bias that stains our nation.
Bernie Sanders leads with the sort of freedom-minded conviction that strikes fear in the Military Industrial Complex, the Prison Industrial complex, and the worst of Wall Street.
And most importantly, Bernie Sanders is the type of leader we can trust to fight for the future of all our nation’s children as if they were his very own.
It is for all these reasons, that I am proud to endorse Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
Bernie Sanders has the courage to confront the institutionalized bias that stains our nation.
Bernie Sanders leads with the sort of freedom-minded conviction that strikes fear in the Military Industrial Complex, the Prison Industrial complex, and the worst of Wall Street.
And most importantly, Bernie Sanders is the type of leader we can trust to fight for the future of all our nation’s children as if they were his very own.
It is for all these reasons, that I am proud to endorse Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
22 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
FEEL THE BERN 
It ties you up in knots!
