Most moving testimony (for Bernie) yet; brought tears to my eyes.

[ReallyIAmAnOptimist]

re-CORRECTED LINK:
https://www.facebook.com/nationalnurses/videos/10153860722462973/?hc_location=ufi

Nurse honors great-grandmother who died in civil rights moveme...
Martese Chism, a registered nurse from Chicago, honors her great-grandmother's legacy by volunteering and supporting Bernie Sanders. In 1966, her great-grandmother, Birdia Keglar, a civil rights leader and voting rights activist, was run off the road and killed in Mississippi by the Klan for registering black voters.

"When I found out that Bernie participated in a sit in—that he was [part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee], I think about how the last person who was in the car with my great-grandmother was an SNCC student,” Chism said. "He was there with us in the 60s. . . . . I want to be there for him.”

Video: National Nurses United

[think]

1. Wonderful video. Thank you. /nt

[Chasstev365]

2. Yes and Hillary was in the suburbs of Chicago....

A "Barry Goldwater Girl", yet now she can Swiftboat a person who put themself in danger for what is right by having her mouthpieces question Bernie. To the Hillary supportrs: THIS is why we are against her despicable entitlement campaign to the presidency!

[Fla Dem]

13. As a high schooler!

Q: Did Hillary Clinton work for Goldwater?

A: She was a high-school Young Republican and "Goldwater Girl" in 1964 but swung to supporting Democrat Eugene McCarthy’s campaign in 1968 and George McGovern’s in 1972.
FULL ANSWER

"I wasn’t born a Democrat," Hillary Rodham Clinton writes on page one of her autobiography, "Living History."
She grew up in Park Ridge, Ill., a Republican suburb of Chicago, and describes her father, Hugh Rodham Jr., as a "rock-ribbed, up-by-your-bootstraps, conservative Republican and proud of it" (page 11). Her 9th-grade history teacher was also a very conservative Republican who encouraged her to read Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater’s 1960 book, "Conscience of a Conservative," which inspired Clinton to write a term paper on the American conservative movement.

>>>>>snip>>>>>>

At Yale Law School, however, she completed her transformation from Goldwater Republican to liberal Democrat. At Yale, she met Marian Wright Edelman and helped in her investigations of the Nixon administration. She also met Bill Clinton, and in 1972 joined him in Austin, Texas, where they both worked for George McGovern’s campaign. There, she writes, "I quickly made some of the best friends I’ve ever had".

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/hillary-worked-for-goldwater/

Please, STOP the Goldwater Girl nonsense
By chicago minx
Saturday Jul 18, 2015 · 11:05 AM EDT

First of all, I am forced to make the usual disclaimer that I intend to vote for Bernie Sanders in my Illinois primary. I hope he is still in the primary race by then, but I intend to vote for him even if he is not. I feel he is owed my vote as a thank you for this race he is running, for bringing so many crucial issues into the national discourse. So, even if he has been mathematically eliminated by then, or has voluntarily dropped out of the race, he gets my vote, and my husband has said he will do the same.

>>>>snip<<<<

So, that brings me to another irritating topic (I'm beginning to feel like The Woman Who Is Easily Irritated, hat tip to Sylvia). And, as you've probably discerned from my title, that is the sneering accusation that Hillary Clinton was in her youth a "Goldwater Girl." She cheered on the 1964 Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, who was decimated by Lyndon Johnson in the general election. Goldwater was considered a very hard right candidate at the time. I'm old enough to remember, because even though I was in grade school, politics was a big topic in my house. We thoroughly discussed every election (my parents were Kennedy Democrats) and I have been fascinated by politics ever since.

I have never read HRC's own description of her Goldwater Girl days, only excerpts here and there. I don't have to. If she was a Goldwater Girl back then, good for her. It shows that she was engaged in politics and issues, undoubtedly influenced by her parents' viewpoints.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/18/1403425/-Please-STOP-the-Goldwater-Girl-nonsense

[retrowire]

14. it doesn't matter what she was that's true.

it's what she is that turns us off.

[Fla Dem]

22. You can like or dislike whomever you please. The point raise in the thread was pointless. nt

[Chasstev365]

19. You May Have Misunderstood My Point

You raise some valid points and and I don't think she is truly a conseravtive. My issue is that she and the Democratic establishment are willing to slime an opponent who as a young kid (only 6 years older than Hillary at the time) who was willing to be arrested for a rightious cause because she feels entitled to the presidency. Can you not see how Rovian and offensive that is?

[Fla Dem]

21. More a young man at 21 with a couple of years of college under his belt.

Beside, where are you getting all this business about sliming? When the photo first was exposed, yes there were questions raised about whether or not that was BS. It was quickly proven that it was. End of story. I'm in the Hillary group forum all the time and have not seen any posts regarding this since it was put to bed. The only ones I continue to see beating a dead horse are BS supporters.

For you to raise the non-issue of what Hillary was doing when she was a junior in HS was silly.

[Chasstev365]

27. You're Naive,

if you think their wasn't a coordinated effort by the Clinton's and their allies to discredit Bernie's commitment to the African American Civil Rights struggle before the South Carolina primary. The day John Lewis (whom I use to admire and respect) endorses Hillary he says he never SAW Bernie Sanders during the Civil Right movement? Wow! He could be at every Civil Rights protest in the nation and know who was at each one? Lewis' statement is made within just few days of the photo controversy? What a fucking coincidence!

May I suggest you read about the 1972 Democratic primary race and how the Nixon campaign used people like Donald Segretti to smear the toughest Democratic opponents? David Brock worked against the Clintons in the 1990's; now he's working for them. Case Closed!

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ReallyIAmAnOptimist.

[appalachiablue]

4. Wonderful, thank you.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Very good, Thank You

[beam me up scottie]

6. Wonderful tribute. Shared, thank you for posting.

[polly7]

7. K&R Very moving. nt.

[mountain grammy]

8. K & R

[tk2kewl]

9. and some seek to minimize or even invalidate his participation "b/c 50yrs ago"

k/r

[tblue37]

23. I bet Bernie, even tiday, would don his comfortabke shoes to join the

protests of the downtrodden. I suspect that if he had been elected for a national position rather than just as the representative or senator for a speecific state, Bernie would have stood with the workers in Wisconsin.

I suspect the main reason Obama didn't was because he knew his involvement would hurt rather than help, since ODS would bring even more and more intense opposition to the cause, so I am not blaming Obama for not inserting himself into the fight. But as a national figure, I bet Bernie would loudly and fiercely back up workers and minority groups whenever he saw them being shafted by the oligarchs or by hatemongers.

[Duval]

10. Very moving. Thank you.

[2banon]

11. Kickin' & a Recken'

Thanks for this!

[cantbeserious]

12. Thank You For Sharing

eom

[me b zola]

15. Recommended

Progress in the civil rights movement happened because of the determination and action of all of so many people whose names are not known to most of us. Yet their actions changed the course of history. Anyone who minimizes the work and actions of any civil rights protester does a disservice to the movement itself.

[AzDar]

16. K & R

[NJCher]

17. very touching

Cher

[Jenny_92808]

18. Yes, Very Touching

Thank you for the link.

[tblue37]

20. Lovely. KnR. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

24. K/R

[Iwillnevergiveup]

25. "I want to be there for him"

What a powerful testament to her great grandmother. What courageous souls.

K&R

[noretreatnosurrender]

26. It Gave Me Chills

What an inspiring video.