All is not well in far left Bernie Land. A former staffer for Sanders is now suing a pro-Bernie organization for alleged discrimination.
Once again, people on the far left are going after each other.
FOX News reports:
Former Bernie Sanders staffer sues pro-Sanders organization for racial discrimination
A former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the pro-Sanders group, Our Revolution.
On “Fox & Friends” Monday, Tezlyn Figaro, who served as director for racial justice issues on the Sanders campaign in 2016, said she and others have been “concerned for years with issues of racism” among people working for the Vermont senator.
“I’m not saying he himself is racist, but his movement is. It is a reason why no one from the 2016 black outreach department is there working for Senator Sanders,” she said.
Figaro said it was “important to [her]” to file the federal lawsuit laying out her allegations and what she experienced in 2016.
Figaro could present a real problem for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign. She has been very vocal in her criticism on Twitter:
Bernie Sanders anti black outreach receipts here 👇🏽think it is just me? Dare to find out the truth!
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
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In 2016 Symone Sanders went on record about the racism she received while on the campaign. While she made a point to say it wasn’t leadership those of us that worked with her know the truth but Symone didn’t want to ruin her career & be black balled https://t.co/kJLkI58Bhq
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
In Feb 2019 the 2016 black staff requested a meeting with Sanders to discuss what went wrong in 2016, the meeting was DENIED (Sanders DID meet with the staff concerned about sexual harassment) so then black staff published this 👇🏽& were still IGNORED. https://t.co/jdEkcicGfo
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
In 2016 Black leaders in Vermont said that Sanders ignored them so they went to media to publish this 👇🏽YEY Sanders still made no improvements in black outreach.https://t.co/BeoO0m3nnK
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
In 2019 Sanders was caught working with David Sirota behind the scenes (as his speech writer) once they exposed it & exposed his racist past Bernie hired him full time. David still currently writes Bernie’s speech https://t.co/EmpOSz0t08
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
In 2015 Black Outreach Director tried to build a relationship with black lives matter & Sanders publicly went on record to throw Marcus under the bushttps://t.co/nHvYoTuW9J
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
In 2016 I personally recruited t/ONLY black ppl that Bernie met with in Flint.He told their story in speeches helping him secure the MI historic win. In ‘18 I coordinated him meeting then again instead of just using them as props when he needed them in 16 https://t.co/6CVL4RTXDE
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) May 20, 2019
Isn’t it interesting that Bernie doesn’t usually get asked about this by the media?
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