Bernie Sanders Aide Nina Turner Rips Into CNN Guest And Twitter Applauds
No matter how you feel about Sen. Bernie Sanders, there is one person you do not come for -- Nina Turner.
Turner is the National Co-Chair of the Bernie Sanders Campaign and known for shutting down foolishness on cable news. While on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time on Thursday (March 5), Turner shared a segment with Democratic Strategist Hilary Rosen who tried to correct Turner on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 's critique of white moderates.
Rosen said, "Nina referenced Dr. Martin Luther King before, saying that he said from the Birmingham jail that we should be concerned about white moderates. That's actually not what Martin Luther King said."
"He did say that... Are you kidding me?" Turner said defiantly.
Unfortunately, Rosen decided to continue, "What he said was we should worry about the silence of white moderates. And what we have in Joe Biden is a man who is not silent. He has a long record, and many votes that in today's world feel like the wrong thing, were the wrong thing, and he has discussed that over and over again. As Bernie Sanders did on the gun votes and other things."”
Nina Turner corrected her, "What Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was talking about, he said it is the point that the white moderate wants things to be comfortable. And instead of focusing in on the bigger threat, it's not necessarily the white KKK member, but more the white moderate that is more comfortable with keeping things the same and pretending like there is no tension."
Rosen then interrupted, “Don't use Martin Luther King against Joe Biden! You don't have that stand."
It was time for Nina Turner to let loose, “Don't tell what kind of stand I have as a Black woman in America. How dare you! Don't dip into what I have to say about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. How dare you, as a white woman, sit up here and try and tell me what I'm supposed to feel and what I'm doing right now."
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She continued, “I unequivocally know I disrespected her and I wanted to make it right by telling disgusting white folks to stop. Wow did that tweet go wrong. I am so sorry.”
Nina Tuner has not responded to her apology but Twitter has had a field day reacting to Rosen since last night.
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