Sanders is very careful to reach out to #BlackLivesMatter in every speech. He stops, reads the names off his printed notes, and says Black lives matter aloud often. He speaks of racism, he speaks of police. The Netroots protesters were heard, his team insists. Their cry is his cry.
We have made progress, Sanders said at the Exeter stop, but we should all be aware that in terms of racism in terms of sexism, in terms of homophobia, we still have a long way to go.
Sanders said that #BlackLivesMatter was a movement for all races to embrace.
I dont have to tell anybody in this room because I know that you feel the same as I do, he said to the white audience in Exeters Old Town Hall before listing the names of the dead like Bland and Dubose. All of you know that racism exists today in America. Weve got a long way to overcome it, and we need to play an active role in reforming our criminal justice system.