Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’s campaign tweeted a picture from the movie “Selma” on Monday to pay homage to Bloody Sunday.
Here’s the since-deleted tweet from MTV News reporter Jamil Smith:
Here is that since-deleted @BernieSanders “Bloody Sunday” tweet, complete with image from the film SELMA. pic.twitter.com/CIxaVRbqKx
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 7, 2016
Bloody Sunday marks the day in 1965 that black civil rights activists marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama while sustaining beatings from the police.
Sanders’ campaign did send out other tweets related to civil rights:
The right to vote is at the heart of freedom and equality in America, and the effort to suppress it must be met by fierce resistance.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 7, 2016
But to this day there are efforts by Republicans to make it harder for African-Americans, low-income people and senior citizens to vote.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 7, 2016
Did his campaign not have permission to use it? Did anyone complain about it? Of course, the original tweet is already in digital circulation, so it really doesn’t matter.
I’m holding the peace sign
Meh. I’m a Hillary supporter and not a Bernie Bro by any stretch, but this seems like a big bag of nothing. An overeager social media staffer who went to Google images for Selma and picked the clearest one that came up without checking it too carefully.
Maybe I’m missing the obvious, but what’s the issue here? Was it just that it was a photo from the movie and not the actual event?
So what am I supposed to be outraged at here exactly?
That is was a still from a movie depicting the events in question?