The Venceremos Brigade had ties to Marxism and militant groups like the Weathermen. The federal government saw it as a major concern in the 70s. Bass says she wasn’t involved in that: “Let me say: Hell no. No, I did not know anybody like that.”
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Bass says she was then, as now, “a Black activist who was deeply concerned about what the activists are raising today: systemic racism.” She says she never met Castro, but did go to see him speak in Revolution Square in Havana several times& thought he was extremely charismatic.”
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Bass told the Biden campaign weeks ago that her Venceremos history would likely come up, and there are worries picking her would take Florida off the table. “Fairly or unfairly, Karen Bass’s history on this subject makes Bernie Sanders look like Ronald Reagan,” says
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In 1972, a House committee did a 400 page report on if the Venceremos Brigade were “idealistic, even though misguided, young people or “interested in sharpening their revolutionary talents and perhaps exporting revolution.” Karen Bass went the next yearhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/karen-bass-cuba-venceremos-brigade/614662/ …
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Annnnnndddd....shes out of the running!!
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You’re only good enough if you arent in the running. This is so obvious.
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Lol, well this is transparent.
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Well then
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Hey Eddie, you dropped this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogynoir
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