An Observation

"Bernie marched with Dr. King!" was up in my mentions on Twitter again today. For the eleventy-seventh time.

It's interesting, ahem, to me that the same people who tell me over and over and over that Bernie Sanders marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s don't seem to give a single shit that Hillary Clinton stood in front of the world thirty years more recently and said: "If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, once and for all. And among those rights are the right to speak freely, and the right to be heard."

I'm just saying. If history matters, it matters.

And, not for nothing, but no one is remembered for being in attendance at her landmark speech.

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