No Street Cred

“I never saw him, I never met him.” says John Lewis about Bernie Sanders after the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Lewis has since walked back his statement and admittedly the Civil Rights movement was a big one, to imply that all Chinese people must know each other because of their ethnicity is borderline, umm… racist.

The fact is that the CBC PAC is dominated by lobbyists and the vote to endorse Clinton included only 5 of 46 members of Congress, 11 lobbyists and 2 PAC Officials.

Hardly overwhelming.

And of course, now we have video.

Viral Video Shows Bernie Sanders Being Arrested at a 1963 Civil Rights Action
By Miles Kampf-Lassin, Alternet
February 18, 2016

A just-unearthed video shows the arrest of what appears to be presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a 1963 protest against school segregation in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.
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The protest on Chicago’s South Side took aim at racist education and housing policies being carried out in Englewood—namely the proposed construction of a new school for black students made up of aluminum trailers known as “Willis Wagons,” named after the Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Benjamin Willis who first ordered them. These trailers were used by the city to deal with overcrowding in black schools, thereby preventing integration of black students into less-densely populated white schools.

A Chicago Tribune report from the time confirms that Sanders was in fact arrested at the action and charged with resisting arrest.

Bernie Sanders at 74 is the same guy he was at 24, 50 years ago. It’s a shame he didn’t meet John Lewis, I’m sure they would have gotten along just fine.