Politicians lie. Their opinions change as quickly as a sly wink, and their convictions are non-existent. At least, that’s the case for most politicians. You see this sort of thing happen most frequently with hot button issues like abortion or race. Politicians would practically evolve a set of misshapen wings to stay ahead in the genetic race to the bottom.
Say what you will about Bernie Sanders though… he’s got so much conviction that he’s been convicted for standing up against racism.
Here’s a video by Jerry Temaner, a co-founder of Kartemquin Films, that appears to show Sanders being arrested at an August 1963 civil rights protest in Chicago- yes, in the same month that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech.
In the video, a newspaper clipping confirms that Bernie Sanders really had been charged with resisting arrest on the month that video was filmed. According to the newspaper clipping, Sanders was arrested on a street that was close to the film’s location. The video then goes on to compare a still frame of his arrest with a picture of him during a sit-in at the University of Chicago.
This isn’t just the random happenstance of a guy who looks eerily similar to Sanders being arrested in some random place that had nothing to do with his proven activism. This is a young man, resisting arrest, on the day Bernie was arrested, where he was arrested, who looks just like every other image we have of Bernie from the time.
At the time, Sanders was the chapter president for the Congress of Racial Equality at the University of Chicago. However, in addition to retaining his views on racial issues, Sanders’ also remained steadfast on his economic and political views as well.
In 1972, he would write in Movement, a Liberty Union Party newsletter which he edited:
“Everybody knows what’s happening — who wants to know. A handful of people own almost everything … and almost everybody owns nothing. A handful of people make the decisions and the vast majority of people have virtually no control over their lives.”
“The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the vast majority in the middle are having a harder and harder time,” he said in 1974.
Sources: NY Daily News, Time
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