“They are going to schools
where
their
teachers
are
forced to work two or three
jobs just to make a living. I
don’t think it is too much to
ask that in the wealthiest
country in the history of the
world we pay our teachers a
living salary.”
In
her
introduction
of
Sanders,
Tlaib
also
touched on the struggles of
metro
Detroit-area
voters,
particularly relating to racial
or
wealth
discrimination
by
insurance
companies
against
socioeconomically
disadvantaged voters.
“People in our communities
have
overcome
redlining,
systemic racism only to see
their water shut off,” Tlaib
said.
“Their
homes
taken
away, simply because they’re
too poor to afford shelter,
or fell on hard times. We
live in the Motor City, the
region that gave the world the
automobile, and yet many of us
— many of us — cannot afford
to insure the cars we drive
because insurance companies
are allowed to discriminate
against us.”
Tlaib and Sanders were
both met with resounding
cheers and applause from an
audience diverse in race, age
and ethnicity, though largely
made up of students and
younger voters.
Likewise, the majority of
the Bernie 2020 campaign
volunteers — who checked
voters in as the rally hall
began to fill up — were young,
many only college or high
school students.
One of these volunteers,
high school junior Zeinab
Alghanem
from
Dearborn,
first joined Sanders’ campaign
via
Students
for
Bernie
over this past summer. Now
Alghanem spends her free
time canvassing and making
cold calls to voters. Alghanem
said she is confident Sanders
will do right by working class
families like her own.
“Other
candidates
don’t
have
the
same
record,”
Alghanem said. “Candidates
always like to make promises
but they never follow through
on them. Based on his record
we can tell that he’s going to
follow through on them, and
I just know that he will fight
for us. I come from a low-
income family, so health care
has always been an issue, and
low wages have always been
an issue. So I just know that
when he gets there he’s going
to fight for us.”
While she has been working
for Sanders’ campaign since
the summer, Alghanem said
her interest in politics began
with
working
for
Tlaib’s
campaign in 2018, along with
others from her high school in
Dearborn.
“Me and my advisor and two
other students went and door
knocked — 4,000 doors — to
get out the American vote,” she
said. “So I think that’s doable
again for Bernie’s campaign.”
Another young volunteer,
Michigan
State
University
freshman
Kristin
Perkins,
worked as an usher at the
event, helping people find
their seats before Bernie
took the stage. Perkins said
her student activism was
what brought her and her
classmates down to Detroit
for the rally.
“I’m
actually
part
of
a
student
group
called
Spartans for Sanders down
at Michigan State, and we
all came up here, we saw
the
opportunity,
and
we
decided to take it,” Perkins
said. “We’re really passionate
about Bernie Sanders, and
his mission for the United
States.”
Among these students were
several Sanders supporters
from
the
University
of
Michigan. LSA sophomore
Esau Delgado is the treasurer
of Students for Bernie at
U-M. Much like Alghanem,
Delgado
says
Sanders’
economic agenda appeals to
the economic needs of his
own family.
“Originally
I’m
from
the South Side of Chicago,
and both of my parents
immigrated
here
from
Mexico,” Delgado said. “So
I kind of view Bernie as this
independent candidate that’s
only beholden to the working
class. One of the issues that
I really love is tuition free
college,
because
when
I
was growing up, my mother
raised my sister and I single-
handedly. She works a job,
makes less than $20,000 a year,
and she had to worry, (with
us) growing up, you know,
how am I gonna pay tuition
for my kids. Both of them.
With tuition-free college she
doesn’t ever have to worry
about that. She doesn’t have to
have that anxiety.”
Delgado
also
recognized
Sanders’ ability to mobilize
young people, explaining his
campaign’s message resonates
with Americans who may not
have voted before, but who
find common ground with
Sanders’ social and economic
agenda.
“I
feel
like
he’s
really
targeting people who have
not been part of the political
process
before,
especially
people
of
color,”
Delgado
said. “I identify as Mexican
American
and
he
just
motivates me to go harder
for him, to phone bank more,
to canvas more, to volunteer
more. Because I truly feel like
his policies will benefit people
like me, people of color.”
The message of Sanders’
rally remained focused on
economic
opportunity
and
job creation. Ultimately, he
left the Detroit crowd with a
message of positivity.
“As a Senator, I have seen the
incredible wealth and power
of the one percent,” Sanders
said. “Be clear — they have
unlimited amounts of money.
Health
care
industry
will
spend hundreds of millions of
dollars trying to stop Medicare
for all. The fossil fuel industry
will spend as much as it
takes trying to preserve their
profits. The prison industrial
complex, military industrial
complex,
incredible
wealth
and incredible power. But at
the end of the day, the one
percent is one percent.”
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