Facing scathing criticism and a weekend of adulation gone wrong when Bernie Sanders was caught flat footed by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix, his defenders across the Internet's Left flank - armchair activists who think they own the Democratic party - needed something of a comeback. Many found deliverance when Alternet published this article with bright eyes and bushy tails: 20 Examples of Bernie Sanders' Powerful Record on Civil and Human Rights Since the 1950s.

Problem is, Zaid Jilani of Alternet - and by the looks of this article's popularity among the Netroots-type crowd, they - manage to ignore the specific demands of the Black Lives Matter movement through all 20 of the examples. The demand, and the fierce urgency of addressing the issue of domestic, internal racism that is costing the lives of black Americans today at the hands of institutionalized and personal - and American - racism is left out entirely. There is absolutely no recognition that the existential threat to black lives exist on a plane beyond civil and political rights.

But, let's go through them one by one. We start all the way back when Bernie was running for president - of his high school class.