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Matt Bors: Black Endorsements Matter (Original Post) Capt. Obvious Feb 2016 OP
Great cartoon Gothmog Feb 2016 #1
Coates explicitly said he was not "endorsing" Sanders BainsBane Feb 2016 #2
And yet an MLK associate endorses Bernie. jillan Feb 2016 #3
LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #4

jillan

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3. And yet an MLK associate endorses Bernie.
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 01:53 PM
Feb 2016

A front-line soldier of the civil rights movement was in Memphis on Tuesday promoting the advantages of a Bernie Sanders presidency to members of the Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association.

Knoxville minister Rev. Harold Middlebrook, a Memphis native and former lieutenant of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., told the gathering of more than 50 black preachers at Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in South Memphis that Sanders represented everything he had struggled for over the last 50 years,

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/government/mlk-associate-tells-memphis-baptist-group-hes-backing-sanders-2c73e08d-8bd8-321c-e053-0100007f70ec-369892701.html

And BTW - I think you are misreading that comic.

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