Thinking about Lewis' comment

[kjones]

You know, what's really interesting is that he made that comment
only after a reporter stopped him with a "but what about Bernie" question
as he tried to leave the podium. Someone forced the issue, and he
responded with "well, I never met him."


I think someone was aiming for a "gotcha" question and got got.

[pandr32]

1. You may be right!

[Thinkingabout]

2. In checking Sanders history it does not appear he was in Selma in 1965 and this is

where the Edmund Pettus Bridge is.

[stonecutter357]

3. K&R!

[NurseJackie]

4. Wow.

[Loki]

5. I looked up Mr. Sander's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

He was at the University of Chicago and participated in demonstrations at the university. Mr. Lewis, on the other hand, was in the south in Selma, in Birmingham, in Montgomery where he was beaten and jailed and many others went and never came back. I'm not surprised he wouldn't have seen Bernie there. He was safely ensconced in the University and apparently had a tiff with someone from CORE and didn't like the outcome, but remained active while he was in Chicago. When you compare what he did with what the sacrifices others made during that movement, it seems pale in comparison. If Mr. Lewis didn't see him, it's because Bernie was never where the dangerous part of the movement was taking place. It's like trying to compare someone who sends letters, to someone who actually is out walking the miles and miles for freedom, then putting their life in danger doing it.

[Stuckinthebush]

6. We have a wholes museum here in Birminham

It's dedicated to the horrors of being black in the South. The park next to it has bronze statues of policemen with dogs that the visitor has to walk past as they make their way to the museum. Inside there is a burned bus shell that freedom riders were in. Across the other street is the 16th Street Baptist church where four little girls were killed.

That was Birminham in the 60s. A far cry from sit ins at the UofC.

But I do applaud him for doing whatever he felt comfortable doing during that terrible time. Lord knows that most people weren't doing a damn thing.