The eldest daughter of Eric Garner, the black Staten Island man who died in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by police, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for President on Friday in a Washington Post column.
“Black Americans—all Americans—need a leader with a record that speaks for itself. And to me, it’s clear. Of all the presidential candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders is our strongest ally,” Erica Garner wrote.
Garner said Black Lives Matter activists who protested Sanders’ rally in Seattle last summer opened the conversation.
“The optics were messy, but he heard us,” Garner wrote. “He prioritized a racial justice platform. He spoke out, in speeches and debates, about Sandra Bland and declared that black lives do matter. He heard us, and I believe he’ll continue to listen.”
Sanders’ rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had already received the endorsement of another high-profile activist: Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain black teenager Travyon Martin.
Oh wow. How important and exciting this news is,
Yeah, I’m not really understanding the importance of this. Obviously, she’s entitled to her opinion but - so what?
Exactly and how does this affect anyone except perhaps to say that Bernie does have some black support. Honestly, TPM really disgusts me at times.
Ummm, ok. Yeah, I guess the opinion of the daughter of a murdered black man doesn’t really matter especially since the candidate has been criticized about racial sensitivity.
If you could please give us a list of the black people whose opinions actually do matter, that would be great. Thanks.
Peace.
Well,she isn’t just the daughter of Eric Garner anymore. She heads up a non profit and has become fairly active politically since her father’s death. Supposedly she is even floating the idea of running for Congress.
And given his woefully poor polling with Blacks and minorities in general,and the earlier dust ups with BLM at his campaign events…it has some significance that she endorses him.