There has been a lot of noise on this forum about Bernie Sanders's lack of street credit with the Black Community and Minorities in general. Many reporters who interview Bernie have been pointing to the lack of Diversity in his crowd, compare to Clinton's crowd. Many people on this forum have been questioning if he cares about issues in the Black community. Once more, history gives us answers to these questions. Thank you youtube for providing us with all these great looks into Bernie's past.

I would like to recommend to those, who continue to doubt Bernie's street cred with the Black community to do a little bit of research to understand Bernie Sanders, the person. Look at Bernie's choices. Most of them were not sexy at the time he made them. Most of them were against the main stream.

Some of us might not be old enough to remember the 1988 Primaries, where Dukakis and Jesse Jackson went neck at neck through the winter and the spring. Jesse Jackson was the only Black candidate for president, who had made it thus far in the presidential race ever and had a mathematical chance to actually win the nomination in a very contested race (with Dukakis and Al Gore). Jesse had carried mostly Southern states. Jesse will go on to win the Vermont Caucus. Bernie had previously endorsed Jesse Jackson in 1984 as well. Needless to say, the Democratic establishment wasn't happy with Bernie.

Below is how Bernie Sanders introduced Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 in Vermont.