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Bernie Supporters Heckle Elijah Cummings at DNC. US News and World Report link. (Original Post) Beausoir Jul 2016 OP
Those folks will have a hard time living that one down. LuvLoogie Jul 2016 #1
They looked pathetic and entitled bravenak Jul 2016 #2
And sat on their hands during Michelle Obama's speech bluedye33139 Jul 2016 #3
Yup...it was DISGUSTING!!! UMTerp01 Jul 2016 #4
It's on video...the "revolution" will be televised. MADem Jul 2016 #5
Maybe once they sober up. But I doubt it. Beausoir Jul 2016 #6
They are a minority--a rather loud minority, but a minority. MADem Jul 2016 #7
More like...maybe one or two white frat boys. Beausoir Jul 2016 #8
It's amazing how just a few jerks can really impact the enjoyment for everyone else. MADem Jul 2016 #9
 

UMTerp01

(1,048 posts)
4. Yup...it was DISGUSTING!!!
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:14 AM
Jul 2016

I posted about this earlier and also referenced the elephant in the room most people want to act like doesn't exist or just plain are uncomfortable talking about race. There is a racial division in the party and it did play itself out during the primary. Like it or not, the majority of Black voters did not buy into Bernie. The reason for that has been speculated by many. It is a number of things. But yeah there is a divide there but they knew to keep their mouths shut when Michelle Obama got up there. So they're not stupid. But the division is playing itself out via the optics. The marchers today with Hillary Clinton for Prison and the interviews of the holdouts were all White faces. Thats just fact. And I see it on twitter from people I follow. There is very much a disdain for the privilege being shown by some of Bernie Sanders supporters and the negativity at Black Dems who supported Clinton.

But again, I think this isn't AS BIG of an issue as the media will make it out to be. But make no mistake...its there.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
5. It's on video...the "revolution" will be televised.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:19 AM
Jul 2016

Those screamers will, one day, and maybe as soon as tomorrow, regret their conduct:

...his supporters publicly harassing Cummings, a widely respected lawmaker and African American leader, isn't a good look for a faction that, by Sanders' own admission, got clobbered by Clinton in the South, home to the largest segment of the nation's black population.

Cummings finished his speech, but the demonstration at the convention could leave a nasty aftertaste among some African American voters. And it underscores the notion that there's a void between black Democrats and white progressives – and lends credence to the claim of some Sanders backers that he didn't consider black voter outreach a high priority.



MADem

(135,425 posts)
7. They are a minority--a rather loud minority, but a minority.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:30 AM
Jul 2016

I know quite a few people who supported Sanders (it was a close race in my state). They understand how the game is played, though, and they've pivoted and dealt with their disappointments.

I haven't met a single person who talks like some of those angry people who were interviewed, or who would think of screaming like that as a "protest" (Protest? Really? That's called "Being a sorry, childish, petulant pain in the ass" in my universe) OR who would be seriously thinking that anyone would be convinced, their mind changed, by such a stunningly stupid display of gross immaturity.




 

Beausoir

(7,540 posts)
8. More like...maybe one or two white frat boys.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:32 AM
Jul 2016

Honestly, what a pathetic display.

Bernie is reaping what he hath sowed with this bunch.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. It's amazing how just a few jerks can really impact the enjoyment for everyone else.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:41 AM
Jul 2016

I do think the peers of those bellowers told them to shut up--it kind of seemed that way--they'd be wailing on and on and then stop rather abruptly--either that or someone stuffed a sock in their mouths!

Kind of reminded me of infants crying at night who aren't wet or hungry, they're just trying out the pipes. Waaaah, waaaaaah, waaaaaaaaaah...by the time you get to the room to check on 'em, they're cutting zzzz's like a grampa~!

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