*Hmmm, maybe it’s time to give some serious props to Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.
No, not necessarily for running for POTUS, but for electing not to capitalize on a meaningful meeting with the mother of Sandra Bland.
The meeting, according to Yahoo, reportedly took place at East Street Café, a Thai restaurant at Union Station in Washington, D.C., five days before the first Democratic presidential debate.
The Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner, a pastor at St. John’s Church in downtown Houston, wrote in her blog about noticing the Vermont senator at another table while she was eating dinner with Geneva Reed-Veal, whose daughter became a face of the Black Lives Matter campaign following her death in police custody in July.
The pastor said she approached Sanders and asked if he would like to meet Reed-Veal and told him their group had asked if he would take a picture with them.
“He did not impose upon Ms. Geneva to ask for a picture of his own. He did not use the moment as an opportunity to promote his campaign,” she wrote. “He took no record; he made no statement. He did not try to turn it into a publicity stunt.”
By the way, Reverend Bonner, pictured above to the left of Reed-Veal, is also a Black Lives Matter activist. She said she was impressed by everyone’s sincerity.
Sanders told Reed-Veal that the death of her daughter was inexcusable and promised he would continue to “say her name.” And wouldn’t you know it, he just that at the debate on Oct. 13 in Las Vegas. It happened when he answered a question submitted by a law student through Facebook: “Do black lives matter, or do all lives matter?”
Read/learn MORE at Yahoo Politics.
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