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He didn't get beaten.
He didn't stand where he lived.
He wasn't two people over from MLK.
I don't care about photo gate - I think it's silly that people are twisted over it. We know Sanders did the north east liberal thing to do and marched on Washington. Hell! My mom and her parents were there and they were white folks from California.
At no time however would she (a teenager at the time) says she was this huge part of the movement. The people getting beaten to a pulp, attacked by dogs, lynched, and fire hosed were the big part.
Where the derision comes from is this idea (not you but the way some people write) that Sanders was the master mind. He was in secret meetings. He built the lunch counters. A march does not a Leader Make. Lewis was a little pup who had not one fuck to give about his life.
What was it worth in the USA at that time anyways?
Nothing. He was my dad's contemporary and grew up in the same cesspool of everything that was wrong with America in his face everyday. If folks want to tout Sanders sympathy towards the black civil rights movement - that's fine.
But let it stand alone.
It has nothing to do with John Lewis and he shouldn't be placed on the same pillar as Lewis.
It didn't happen like that.
It did not.
And I want people to stop trying to delude themselves that it's Sanders who was at the signing for his efforts.
He was not there. 
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