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Sen. Bernie Sanders is a “long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice for over 50 years,” civil rights activist Cornel West said in Twitter post last night endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate.

“Now is the time for his prophetic voice to be heard across our crisis-ridden country,” West said of Sanders

West, author of “Race Matters,” added that his support of Sanders isn’t an “affirmation of the neo-liberal Democratic Party”

NOTE: Earlier this month, Sanders left a stage in Seattle after protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement, which has spoken out against racism and police abuses, disrupted one of his speeches; Sanders has declared that no one else “will fight harder to end institutional racism”

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