Insiders recount how Sanders lost the black vote -- and the nomination slipped away

[The Magistrate]

11. After Which, Sir, He Booked Off To Vermont

One of the whitest states in the country. He did so at about the time the 'Black Power' movement was setting in, and this had often a distinctly anti-semtic tinge. People tend to forget in the mid-sixties there were affrays which 'riot' does not quite accurately describe, though insurrections does not quite serve the purpose either. There were tanks in the streets of major cities, this sort of thing was looked towards seasonally, people wondering if there was going to be 'a long hot summer'. Sanders appearance at an open housing march, prior to these developments, and his good fortune to be photographed in the hands of a pair of 'Chicago's finest', has been blown up out of all proportion to give the impression he was shoulder to shoulder with Dr. King through thick and thin. He was not, and the pretense he was is a shabby deceit, depending on the audience being ignorant of the facts.




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."