“I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, filled with its progressives, but you already did it for me,” Johnson said. “Thank you. Now that you’ve covered yourself in your white supremacist liberalism, I will formally welcome Bernie Sanders to Seattle.”
As she spoke, Sanders stood nearby, helpless, as Johnson proceeded to condemn Seattle, where officials are building “a new jail to imprison black children,” where the police practice racial profiling, where the schools suspend black students more than whites, and where there has been “intense gentrification.”
And then, noting the next day would be the first anniversary of the “ruthless murder” of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Johnson let everybody have it:
“So right now we’re going to honor this space, and we’re going to honor the memory of Michael Brown, and we’re going to honor all of the black lives lost this year, and we’re going to honor the fact that I have to fight through all these people to say MY LIFE MATTERS! That I have to get up here in front of a bunch of screaming, white racists to say my life f—ing matters!”
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