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                                                         July 10, 2018

There's a common news story angle where
someone complains that Bernie doesn't do
enough to play up his involvement in the       (Bernie's standard line is
Civil Rights movement of the early 60s.        that what he did 50 years
                                               ago isn't that significant
An inane complaint: imagine he did it          compared to deciding what we
the other way around, what if he was           all do next...)
continually playing up what he did
back when he was a kid?  Trading on
past glories, trying to sell himself
as Mr. Civil Rights... that'd get old,
pretty fast.

   Either way Bernie does it,
   someone is going to chime in
   that he's doing it wrong...


There's been some interesting smear maneuvers,
trying to make it sound like Bernie's activities
in the Civil Rights movement are just a lie:


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sanders-civil-rights-photos/

   "Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Photos Controversy"

   "A disputed photograph of Bernie Sanders at a 1962 sit-in
   was authenticated by the photographer, who released
   several additional related images."

   "In February 2016, Democratic presidential candidate
   Bernie Sanders’ early civil rights activism became a
   matter of dispute following earlier rumors that Sanders
   was shown in an iconic 1965 photo at a march from Selma to
   Montgomery, Alabama."

   "The emergence of contested photos led many to infer that
   all images purported to be of Sanders during the Civil
   Rights era were misattributed. Not long after that
   debate, the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart wrote a
   piece ('Stop sending around this photo of 'Bernie
   Sanders"'), ..."



A piece at Mother Jones by Tim Murphy seems to damn with
faint praise in places, but at least it covers the facts:
"Here’s What Bernie Sanders Actually Did in the Civil Rights
Movement", Feb. 11, 2016:

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights

    "... Sanders’ involvement was, by comparison, brief and
    localized, his sacrifices limited to one arrest for
    protesting and a bad GPA from neglecting his studies. But
    Sanders was, in his own right, an active participant in
    the movement during his three years at the University of
    Chicago."

    "Although Sanders did attend the 1963 March on Washington, at
    which Lewis spoke, most of his work was in and around Hyde
    Park, where he became involved with the campus chapter of
    CORE shortly after transferring from Brooklyn College in
    1961. During Sanders’ first year in Chicago, a group of
    apartment-hunting white and black students had discovered
    that off-campus buildings owned by the university were
    refusing to rent to black students, in violation of the
    school’s policies. CORE organized a 15-day sit-in at the
    administration building, which Sanders helped lead. (James
    Farmer, who co-founded CORE and had been a Freedom Rider with
    Lewis, came to the University of Chicago that winter to
    praise the activists’ work.) The protest ended when George
    Beadle, the university’s president, agreed to form a
    commission to study the school’s housing policies."



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