This from a Bernie Sanders supporter. This is not just one or two or three supporters. Increasingly, a large number of his supporters sound like this when they open their mouths, and itâs disturbing. Message to the other Democratic candidates: STOP TAKING BLACK VOTERS FOR GRANTED
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Bernie Sanders attracts some delightful supporters: @BlazePhoenix_
Feel the Hate. http://t.co/lY8NtBgvs6
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 18, 2025Real tweet (honest): #BernieSoBlack he "helped CREATE affirmative action"
twitter.com/MissEnji/statu⌠http://t.co/rTNeF0XTFk
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 19, 2025This is *not* the right response for Sanders and O'Malley supporters on dKos #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/lKzw1pT0ED
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Tom Watson (@tomwatson) July 19, 2025****
Time and time again, we show up. Recent example: Governor Terry McAuliffe
Here's an idea: don't fucking lecture black people on how to fight for progress when they are the only group that reliably votes Democratic.
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Danielle (@abradacabla) July 19, 2025Stop invoking MLK to silence us or justify your own silence on issues that affect us.
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Jeremy Jewitt (@jeremyjewitt) July 18, 2025****
Truth
If you truly believe all lives matter, then the importance of saying "#BlackLivesMatter" should not be vexing to you
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Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) July 18, 2025I just can't fathom that it's July 2015 and folks are chastising Black voters for taking their time and weighing things.
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W.E.B.B.I.E DuBois (@fivefifths) July 19, 2025****
"We're all equal now! What are you talking about?" Exactly when since '65 did we get equal? During the Drug Wars? 😑 http://t.co/qoIFSgj9SR
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Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) July 19, 2025Millennials are no less racist than Generation X and hardly less racist than Boomers. http://t.co/NRQRWcmRGT
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zellie (@zellieimani) July 17, 2025****
Saying #BernieSoBlack is counterproductive are missing the point: it's about his stans claiming he's done more for POC than POC themselves
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Danielle (@abradacabla) July 19, 2025Insulting POC, dismissing activism regarding issues that are badly hurting them specifically is what's counterproductive, not a hashtag.
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Danielle (@abradacabla) July 19, 2025****
The #AllLivesMatter hashtag is such dehumanizing BS. Itâs not just conservatives promoting it, but also progressives. You are not the one being murdered everyday. You are not the one facing the horrors of institutional racism, yet you want to derail a movement by centering yourself. Selfishness in a nutshell
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(1) For people who think they are being more inclusive by saying #AllLivesMatter in response to #BlackLivesMatter , they are in reality
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025(2) (un)consciously undermining the purpose of the movement because THIS particular movement is about SPECIFIC issues, as any decently
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025****
(3) effective movement is. For example, it's hard to have an effective protest that's about gender equality, animal rights, racial equality,
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025(4) and saving the environment because that's not how getting shit done works. But I've never seen #AllLivesMatter promoted by someone who
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025****
(5) actually fights for social justice. So someone getting up in arms bc of #BlackLivesMatter while they sit on the sidelines and do little
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025(6) to nothing for Black lives or anyone's other than their own is probably not actually promoting that "All Lives Matter (Equally)" as
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025****
(7) much as they're trying to take down the idea that #blacklivesmatter" and denying its necessity and value. So. Show me the person who
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025(8) spends their life fighting for all lives ACTUALLY mattering and who says #AllLivesMatter and I'll show you a world where people are
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025****
(9) treated like they actually do (neither of those things as far as I've seen). Now I don't know much about all of this but I know enough
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025(10) to not consciously or unconsciously undermine a very needed movement that promotes EQUALITY. #BlackLivesMatter #EricGarner
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025****
#BlackLivesMatter doesn't mean other lives don't. Like people who say "Save The Rainforests" aren't saying "Fuck All Other Types of Forests"
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Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 18, 2025did y'all see what @MattMcGorry posted on instagram about #BlackLivesMatter ? 😌 if not, here you go http://t.co/XfaZ1CEJEv
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sarah (@SARAH2TIRED) July 18, 2025****
@MattMcGorry thanks for always taking the time to acknowledge this stuff and not just staying silent like so many others in your position ♥️
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♡ harley quinn ♡ (@kecorpse) July 18, 2025@MattMcGorry if all lives mattered so much then they'd all be getting equal news coverage, protection/respect from the police, etc.
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♡ harley quinn ♡ (@kecorpse) July 18, 2025****
@MattMcGorry it's similar to people taking personal issue with the word feminism as opposed to 'equalism' or some shit like that
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♡ harley quinn ♡ (@kecorpse) July 18, 2025@MattMcGorry my issue with alllivesmatter is that it's insinuating that white lives are in equal danger as black lives, when that's not true
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♡ harley quinn ♡ (@kecorpse) July 18, 2025
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And now gonna go lay down a bit before taking Mother of LL to church. See everyone later.
Happy Birthday LL!
Happy Birthday LL!
Wow, Chips, you sure love LL a lot to search for and find that Chelsea cake
HAVE A SUPERBLY WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY LL!!!!!!
Happy Birthday, LL
LL, wishing you a most happy birthday. You are young, bright, and much loved.
Happy Birthday LL!!!
Happy birthday!
Have a good day LL.
A very Happy Birthday, LL:) Enjoy!
Happy Birthday, LL. Hope you have a perfect day with non-stop treats.
Happy Birthday LL. My birthday is this coming Wednesday. We share July b-daysđđ. Hope you have a fantastic day!
too soon?
Happy Birthday, LL! I hope you have great day/night!
Brilliant post Nerdy, Matt McGorryâs tweets are just outstanding. Thanks a gazillion, Legend.
Thanks, Chips.
1. Thank you so much for your tweets on Bernie Sanders the candidate for POTUS. They sure have been enlightening.
2. His supporters will be yet another reason why his candidacy falls flat.
3. His supporters crediting Bernie with every racial progress that Black people fought for, donât seem to realize how fucking stupid and arrogant they are. As though black people werenât fighting, bleeding, and dying to get the rights they deserve.
4. They throw up the fact that he supported MLKâs ideas and policies and therefore should be celebrated as the great white hope. Delusional nonsense at its core. Weâre supposed to applaud him for realizing that Black people are human beings who deserve equal rights and access as their white counterparts? Are they freaking kidding me? That is Common Decency 101 and no one who wants to be POTUS should be getting accolades for that. Oh, you realized racism is wrong? Bravo to you, then.
5. This is the same man who turned around in 2014 and declared racism dead. This is the same man who voted to allow racist white militia gun down POC because their gun rights are more important than the lives of POC. This is the same man that is tripping over himself to get that 0.0000000000000001% of the white working class vote while dismissing the concerns of black people who vote Democratic no matter the day, month, year, etc. You mention that to his supporters and they catch a case of “huh…huh…what….what…I canât hear you….the line is breaking up…”
6. Bernie and his fans donât seem to realize this isnât Vermont. Heâs not running to be president of Vermont. Heâs running to be President of the United States and his record isnât smelling like roses; more like manure.
Bravo.
Clapsss
Cracked me up!!! Great tweet! đ
Hey, NW - I just logged in about 15 min ago and had exactly the same reaction to #BernieSoBlack. Have been LOLâing ever since ….
Hahaha ROFL. Nerdy, you and you ‘gif” kills me. Hahaha đ đ đ
An exceptionally Fantastic Post, NW.
Wow!
Congrats LL on your Goldâ and Happy Birthday, LL.
Thank you for this post Nerdy! Outstanding collection of tweets!
US media in one tweet
Thanks, Nerdy! Often frustrated with my fellow white progressives who nitpick every little thing President Obama does while giving Bernie a free pass on guns and white privilege BS.
Exactly!
Bernie voted to block the closure of Gitmo, yet his fans pin everything on President Obama.
Bernie loves the drones. Yet his fans try to scream down President Obama.
Bernie voted to protect gun manufacturers and racist militias who kill POC. Yet his fans bury their heads in the sand.
On the Orange Satan site the BS supporters bitch about GITMO, DRONE WARS pointing finger at PBOâs failures yet when someone mentions that BS voted down closure of GITMO, PRO GUNS/DRONES, itâs ” yeah but I still support Bernie”. These people are just full of it. Oh and yesterday before the Netroots fiasco someone posted how young AAâS millennials were for BS…..guess theyâre post was too soon.
GM/GA JER.
Response to @mikememoli (too bad article is about HRC too):
Um, Mike, President Obama doesnât have to play golf with folks to get their vote. Heâs beyond those types of games.
GA Don.
Wouldnât it be a hoot, now that Malia will be off to college soon, and Sasha busy doing high school activities, if PBO became a *party animal*?
Would blow MSMâs minds, negating another one of their fabricated “narratives,” while PBO will enjoy every minute of getting under their treasonous GOP skins. LOL.
#BucketList
No, Hillary, youâre not out of the woods just yet. We havenât forgotten about you and Bill.
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LOLOLOL!!!!!
OMG that is HILARRYOUS!
Ouch.
#BernieSoBlack he poured one out for the brothers on lockdown.
#BernieSoBlack he eat scrimps.
My thoughts to Bernie:
The point is not 50 years ago but yesterday when you, Senator Sanders, didnât throw away your prepared remarks and say to the protesters, “Youâre right. Black people, mostly men, mostly young men are lying dead in our streets sometimes for 4+ hours while the white policemen involved get their stories straight. Until the safety of all our people is assured that is the most important topic we need to be addressing.”
That would have been a good start.
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What is pissing me off about this focus on BS now is that HRC was given a pass a few weeks ago when she spoke to a mostly empty church in Ferguson, MO to an audience of black women whom she informed that “All lives matter.”
Apparently there were audible gasps.
However, next came a press blackout of this failure of an event.
BS is a broken record with a single song that will fade away soon enough.
HRC is a menace under the protection of way too many people.
Both of these candidates are not good for the USA.
#Berniesoblack is brilliant and funny—at least the ones I get.
LL, Have a rockinâ good birthday, man!
#BernieSoBlack he auditioned for the role of Williams in âEnter the Dragonâ.
Ha! Just watched that last night with nephew! “So messed up how they did the brutha”
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Our central air is finally dead. I hope it starts raining soon, b/c itâs miserable in here.
Happy Birthday, LL! Cheers to a fabuloso day!
Very weird weather here today. Looked like rain this morning but now bright and sunny and very warm, kinda muggy. Itâs never muggy here.
Oh, expect rain. Just saw the radar. Itâs up around Santa Barbara heading this way.
Happy Birthday LL have a wonderful day.
Yay, more rain coming! I was bummed this a.m. to see the sun was back; I enjoyed the rainy day yesterday (and I donât have to go to the car wash now
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If your a/c is caput, fill a kiddie pool with water and ice and console yourself with a gimlet or Manhattan
and have a happy Birthday anyway!
I was in the rain yesterday! Couldnât believe that our thunderstorm was more than the usual 1 clap of thunder; actually saw lighteningđ; Family took me to Hollywood Bowl last night for an early birthday present but had to eat at a restaurant close by as didnât want to picnic in the rain. Rain is supposed to reach us here in South Bay by 6ish tonight.
I grew up in the South Bay! Donât live there anymore. Had Hollywood Bowl series tickets for the Jazz series for awhile, but got tired of no one chipping in for anything
so I let my tickets go.
Happy Birthday to you too!
Thanks. We always get the cheap seats in the back.
GAH, they think weâre so stupid!
Hay Rupert, Donald Trump has been embarrassing his friends and this country. Remember when Trump was talking about President Obama wasnât born in this country, where was you at then Rupert Murdoch?
Rupert Murdoch built Trump by creating the GOP HATE CABLE NETWORK and fired real journalist who did not tote the evil Fox agenda.
meta - what a glorious response
they are not color blind…they never have been
she takes an uneccessary swipe at the President….sigh…
She caught a clue, evidently …..
Joan, please, we remember your shenanigans from the moment President Obama took office.
Not all white Dem fled the Democratic party. There were racist Dem before the signing of the civil rights act and after.
Do we need to participate in elections? Absolutely. Stop protesting? Hell no!
So now that those who believe that black lives matter have seen where Bernie and the kkklowns are coming from, it would behoove everyone to begin the plan to defeat them at the polls . Channel the anger into energy from now till Primary.
RidenwithBiden
Florida and Texas citizens need to rally voters in their states, inform them of whatâs happening to actual lives in their states:
There you go again, Nerdy, with those pesky facts. Can I please get my pony before you ruin everything?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Okay, Don.
As a white person, I know many people use the #AllLivesMatter hashtag as a way to dismiss and dis-empower the deeply felt #BlackLivesMatter tag. It seems obvious on its face that using #BlackLivesMatter is a heart-cry response to what is going on at this very moment, not some subversive attempt to deny any other group their humanity. I also believe that some white people, especially at firs, used it in the sense of “We are all important. We support and include you”.
Now, that is naive. It is pie-in-the-sky, everything-will-be-okay-if-we-just-join-hands-and-sing naivety that does not acknowledge life as some people have to live it. There are sometimes good intentions. But we all know where good intentions lead us.
My point is this: even when you truly believe “AllLivesMatter” is a supportive thing to say, when the people you are trying to support tell you clearly, “No.It. Isnât”, you have to listen. When they say “This is hurtful and dismissive”, you have to listen. When the people you are trying to support say, “This is how you support us: “BlackLivesMatter”, you have to listen. When your feelings are hurt because your support was not accepted the way you thought it would be, you have to LISTEN. You have the LISTEN and ACCEPT that they know their own lives better than you do, that their experiences are different and true. That no matter how much you wish it werenât that way and no matter how much you want it to be different, you have to LISTEN and ACCEPT and APOLOGIZE and BE HUMBLE in the face of your ignorance.
I respect Bernie Sanders for marching for Civil Rights in the 50s and 60s. Iâm sure he did it out of a deep belief in the cause. Since then he has served an almost all white community. Itâs not enough for him and his supporters to look back 50 years and rest on those laurels. Itâs not okay for him to determine the battle was won because he is not aware of it any more. And when you are tone deal enough, and so far out of touch that you can say things like “Racism is over” and ” Black people need to stop voting their color”, you need to LISTEN when the people whose support you need say “No! Wait! Itâs hurtful and wrong!”. And then you need to reassess and humble yourself and say, “Iâm sorry. I was wrong. Tell me what I need to know and Iâll listen.” Sanders doesnât seem to have the slightest ability to do that and that is what worries me in his candidacy. I donât expect a perfect candidate, I donât expect any of them to measure up to PBO (well Joe Biden if her runs!), but I do expect a candidate who can learn, respond to new information, and most of all treat EVERYONE with respect and dignity. I think racial injustice, legal injustice, and economic injustice are three self-reinforcing evils at the root of our society. Sanders is obsessed with one at the expense of the others. Itâs not good enough. I will vote for him if he is the candidate, but it will make me very sad.
As a white person, I feel that the biggest role we can play is to listen, learn, and reflect that learning to other people, and allow everyone the dignity of their own experience.
I donât expect a perfect candidate, I donât expect any of them to measure up to PBO (well Joe Biden if her runs!), but I do expect a candidate who can learn, respond to new information, and most of all treat EVERYONE with respect and dignity. I think racial injustice, legal injustice, and economic injustice are three self-reinforcing evils at the root of our society.
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AMENNN
This! Excellent comment.
Courtesy DonnaDem (from Friday):
And from a couple of weeks ago, best description Iâve read of #FeelTheBern (admittedly havenât read a lot on him).
Since Sanders and Biden were born a bit earlier, they were not as affected by the Vietnam War Draft as were Boomers such as Hillary and Bill Clinton, etc.
“The gentle hills of northern New England”, oh snap!
Hillary, donât say anything, just let this Bernie thing rage. Sit back, you and Bill go catch a movie or something, radio silence.
HELLO!!!
Thought Iâd interject a little fun …..
Because Bernie certainly ainât no fun, and never will be ……………
Yes! Thank you! đ
Excellent interview, Dudette, at this link …..
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/179865/watch-lin-manuel-miranda-talk-about-bringing-hamilton-to-life/
Yep, saw that interview a while back. LOVE IT!
Thanks for this reminder, Bfr - makes me wish I could see the whole thing.
Thanks for including this, I had forgotten about it. The Obamaâs relationship with him has been on-going over the years after this (Michelle saw Hamilton when it was off-broadway). I would really like to see this musical. Our one man stimulus, otherwise known as PBO, has set the show up for sold-out performances during its entire run.
This BlackLivesMatter situation is Bernieâs Katrina.
These Bernie supporters crack me up with their foolish blind spot.
Over twenty-five years in elected office in Washington and Vermont and Bernie Sanders canât navigate a weekend with black folk asking him questions about his stance on issues that affect the AA community.
How bout start trending a hashtag that says something like “my vote matters” so they can see how man tweet and retweets it gets. Let them see our voting block grow strong
_/i\_
Lord, please donât let Amk, or LPlains, get a higher score……and let them tell the truth about their score too!
A-men.
I got 76%; I read 2 of them too quickly and left out an important word (yes, itâs my story and I am sticking to it). According to the site, 57% is the average score, so Iâm good. Hereâs the thing however, I would have been able to answer very few questions about laura Bush or any other First Lady in the modern era.
yes, itâs my story and I am sticking to it đ đ đ
I say that average score of 57%, and wondered why that 57% was not checking out *our* news source, CEB. đđ
You know, all I know about Laura Bush other than her spouse & twinâs names, is the story that she majored in library science and killed someone in a car accident. đł I sure wouldnât get even 57% if I took a quiz on her or any of the others.
I got 88%. 22 questions right…..3 wrong
5 wrong 80%
Quiz results
Your score Average reader score
19
Correct
6
Wrong
76%
You answered 19 of 25 questions correctly for a total score of 76%.
Regarding the height question, they are wrong, because they acknowledge that FLOTUS and Eleanor Roosevelt are the same size (i.e. 5â11â), thus Michelle is not the tallest FLOTUS.
đ đ I forgot how it was actually worded, Ranman, but *I* decided she stood out for me (in stature and in every way) so the matter was settled! đ đ
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got the question about some kiss wrong.
Hmmm. I donât know. Do you have additional written proof? These days I no longer believe everything I see in print.
#jj
/nose in air/ Not at all! I got 88% honestly.
/bowing slightly/ Thank you.
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I started out to do the test was getting them correct then on about the fourth question before I even read the possible answers my iPad flipped to the response saying incorrect with an answer I had not chosen nor even touched. It is choosing its own answers so I went no further since I even knew the correct answer and had no time to choose. It reminded me of the stories I heard about Diebolt voting machines doing their own thing.
I missed 3…..:(
Doesnât it just bug you, especially after seeing the answer and thinking ‘I knew that!â? đ
Hahahaha! Questlove wants some of this!
What “track record” are people talking about? Seriously.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/07/19/a-well-earned-thank-you/
NW, BRING THAT TRUTH!!!
mcgorry tweets are spot on.