Bernie Sanders supporters at the DNC (AFP)
Bernie Sanders supporters booed and chanted throughout the opening day of the Democratic National Convention -- but many Twitter users noticed something about those noisy interruptions.
Am I imagining it or is there more booing and heckling when black speakers are on stage? #DemsInPhilly— Sean Ehrlich (@Sean Ehrlich) 1469498281.0
Bern bros chanting "we trusted you." Why is it they seem to mostly chant over black & female speakers #DemsInPhilly— lars von trash (@lars von trash) 1469500054.0
So the Bernie folks are shouting over and disrespecting black speakers, women speakers ... to what purpose? #DNCinPHL— Timothy Longman 🏳️🌈 (@Timothy Longman 🏳️🌈) 1469500580.0
A bunch privileged white lefties shouting down black and female speakers for their (ideological) impurity: bad optics, but perfect metaphor— Bryan Kessler (@Bryan Kessler) 1469498775.0
Pay attention to who they picked to open up the convention. BernieBros are playing themselves by booing black, Hispanic and gay speakers.— Ragnarok Lobster (@Ragnarok Lobster) 1469480282.0
When a black man, who is a civil rights hero, is talking about civil rights, maybe shut the fuck up for five minutes about the TPP.— Wil Wheaton (@Wil Wheaton) 1469482668.0
Uh, white ppl turning their backs on Black speakers talking about racism and voting rights is disrespectful as fuck https://t.co/zbq8lipcb2— Elena Ghostly 👻😱👻 (@Elena Ghostly 👻😱👻) 1469536232.0
@abbiewastaken some whiny suck babies chanted over women & black speakers in particular, sometimes before they even spoke— lars von trash (@lars von trash) 1469501838.0
@JessicaValenti I was expecting this as the Busters were shouting loudest at Black speakers earlier :O— Señorita Rocío (@Señorita Rocío) 1469500731.0
People at the #DNCinPHL are chanting #BlackLivesMatter but apparently they don't think black speakers matter all that much.— The Idiot Immolation Industrial Complex (@The Idiot Immolation Industrial Complex) 1469498132.0
Berners booing black speakers provides a portrait of why the campaign did so poorly with POC. It's not coincidental folks.— Functionally Unstrategic™ (@Functionally Unstrategic™) 1469497974.0
Can we just not chant when black speakers are speaking? Can we just not? #DemsInPhilly— Black Lives Matter 🇺🇸 (@Black Lives Matter 🇺🇸) 1469497950.0
Pretty tired of trying to hear black & brown speakers thru the tantrums of intransigent neophytes. Pretty fucking tired. #DemsInPhilly— Julian® 🇺🇸 (@Julian® 🇺🇸) 1469497229.0
