bring people together around. i guess going back to that question, we have those laws on the books and it s not working. then we ve got to make them stronger and more enforceable. that s what we ve got to do. i want to move to you last night spoke at the southern christian leadership conference. of course it s a major civil rights organization, a lot of history there. but i want to play i want to play a clip that you had, sort of a reaction last week at net roots nation in a confrontation with a black lives matter i didn t have a confrontation. what i had was i was there to speak with immigration reform and some people started disrupting the meeting. the issue that they raised was in fact a very important issue about black lives matter about sandra bland, about black people getting yanked out of in this case of sandra bland, getting yanked out of an automobile thrown to the ground and ending up dead three days later because of a minor traffic violation. so this is an is
i guess going back to that question, we have those laws on the books and it s not working. then we ve got to make them stronger and more enforceable. that s what we ve got to do. i want to move to you last night spoke at the southern christian leadership conference. of course it s a major civil rights organization, a lot of history there. but i want to play i want to play a clip that you had, sort of a reaction last week at net roots nation in a confrontation with a black lives matter i didn t have a confrontation. what i had was i was there to speak with immigration reform and some people started disrupting the meeting. the issue that they raised was in fact a very important issue about black lives matter about sandra bland, about black people getting yanked out of in this case of sandra bland, getting yanked out of an automobile thrown to the ground and ending up dead three days later because of a minor traffic violation. so this is an issue which is a very important
civil rights movement but several generations removed from the current black lives matter movement much younger group. he fell back on and really defended his economic world view. this is a guy who spent a lot of time looking through a lens. some of the people that i talked to including the president, dr. charles steele acknowledged there s a sensitivity issue for bernie sanders. key statistic here. vermont has just 7,500 black people in the entire state. more people at his rally than the entire black population. this was a good down payment for him. i think he has a long way to go. that s true. vermont is a small state to begin with and the share of the black population very tiny up there. let me bring in the panel here. a bit of a controversy this whole week this bernie sanders speech is the culmination of what we saw what happened at net roots nation. the other thing that happened
democratic candidate martin o malley was disrupted and booed at net roots nation last weekend. shall i continue? hold on one second. it s okay with me. black lives, of course matter. i spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity. but if you don t want me to be here that s okay. hillary clinton, who skipped that event and avoided those protesters last weekend seemed to sense an opening after that. it s heartbreaking to read about another death of a young woman, sandra bland in texas, another young african-american life cut short. and that s why i thinks it essential that we all stand up and say loudly and clearly, yes, black lives matter.
yes, the black community, the black vote tends to vote democratic. you cannot take the black vote for granted. you have to understand what are the problems specifically in the black community. the hispanic vote is up for play but the black vote is very important in this country as well. martin o malley he was baltimore city s mayor as well as maryland s governor. he, in part is partly to blame for some of the riots because of the freddie gray death. he promoted that zero tolerance. for him to say white lives matter is a slap in the face to many people in maryland particularly in baltimore, who are still suffering from the aftermath of his reign as mayor. the new york times has a really interesting story looking at the incident at net roots nation looking at the jeb bush comment i just read and put nth context of the changing demographic face of america and what this is doing. it s emboldening some activists at net roots.