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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)you ask a question then there should be a way to and time to hear the answer. Especially if you are allies. There was none. They never once stopped yelling so that he could answer. Even during the Q&A portion.
Also the night before he was at the dinner in Cedar Rapids Iowa where he got a standing ovation for that very same question. And just after in Arizona he answered the same question again. And these were not the only times he has talked about this. And rather you like it or not what he has been saying about the economy is just as much about POC as it is anyone else. Most of my family need help economically.
What I think was really going on was that BLM is trying to keep their cause in the public eye and this was a good venue to do that. They did not care what answers were given. They wanted the attention - not for themselves - but for their cause. A righteous cause. One that needs to be kept in the public eye.
But it alienated people as you can see if you have been reading DU. Fortunately I think that there is a meeting between them and Bernie in a couple of days when he gets done with his tour in the SW.