When “Black Lives Matters” activists crashed a campaign speech by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Joe Ugly smelled something … ugly.
“They’re no more than Clinton operatives. Stop playing!” Ugly said of the activists who shut down a Sanders rally in Seattle.
Ugly made his comments on his morning drive time show on Ugly Radio and on the Independent’s WNHH FM. (Watch the full conversation in the above video.)
“I’m happy they got booed,” he said.
Ugly noted that Sanders, who defines himself as a democratic socialist, was one of only two sitting U.S. senators who attended the March on Washington, a high-water mark of the 1963 Civil Rights Movement.
The other senator?
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“Was he with the protesters, or the oppressors?” Ugly wondered aloud.
This New York Times article provides an answer. It might blow your mind.
Sanders, meanwhile, who has taken criticism for the overwhelmingly white cast of his support base as well as his tendency at times to ignore racial issues on the stump, has now hired an African-American woman (also named Sanders) as his campaign spokesperson and released a “racial justice platform.”
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Joe Ugly.
If you watch the video of what happened in Seattle, it's clear that the more aggressive of the two women was clearly an operative, and wasn't going to settle for anything less that shutting down Bernie's appearance at the Social Security event.
Thank you to Joe Ugly for speaking up about this. Against the Clinton machine Bernie probably doesn't have a chance in heck, but in terms of fighting for America's disadvantaged, he's miles above everyone else.
ps -- where is New Haven's $15/hour movement?