Posted on 10/05/2015 10:52:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday said white Americans are often blind to the injustices that black people face when dealing with police.
Many white people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments, Sanders said, according to Ebony.
I think for most whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they dont interact with the police as much as those in the black community, he said.
One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate added. "We have a very broken criminal justice system. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.
Sanders argued that law enforcement officials need to improve their outreach when engaging minority populations.
We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies, he said.
We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving, Sanders continued. "If the community is a minority one, the police department should reflect that reality.
Sanders has surged to second in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and now leads Hillary Clinton in polls of New Hampshire, an early-voting state.
But while Sanders has seen an upswing in support, there are lingering doubts about whether he can expand his appeal beyond white liberals to other voting blocs within the Democratic Party, including African-Americans.
Sanders told Ebony he recognizes the challenges he faces.
Yes, its true Im from a state that is overwhelmingly white, he said.
I am also aware that I am running against someone whose husband is very popular in the African American community, Sanders added, referring to former President Bill Clinton.
The proposals that I talk about are actually more relevant to the black community, he said, citing his calls for criminal justice reform and better youth education.
Black Lives Matter activists have repeatedly targeted Sanders this year, disrupting several of his stops along the 2016 campaign trail. Sanders has since met privately with the activists to discuss his agenda.
We met on several occasions and those meetings have all been very productive, he said. I have found those meetings to be very useful.
If anything ... whites have been getting screwed for at least the time of obumbles administration
This coming from a man who fled the diversity of NYC to make his moonbat political career in homogenous (White) Vermont.
Every living being faces abuse/rejection of one form or another. They need to get over themselves and learn to brush it off.
The acting out the negro community has enthusiastically engaged in the last six years have destroyed decades of "progress" overnight.
They are so screwed now, many whites will not trust them for more decades to come, they know how fast they can go feral.
My advice to young blacks is not to engage in drug transactions or other criminal activity. My guess is that if they do not do that, their likely arrest will drop considerably. Also, do not carry guns during your non-criminal activity - as it becomes harder to proclaim your innocence...
Of course this also includes other criminal behavior but drugs seem to be your activity of choice.
If you can avoid all of this, you will probably succeed in life and won’t be posting here anyway...
“I think for most whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they dont interact with the police as much as those in the black community...
Well, duh. I do believe that cops go where the crime is.
Bernie Panders
Why won’t a fellow Socialist share their comb with Bernie?
You’re not allow to say that! White privilege!
“Well, duh. I do believe that cops go where the crime is.”
If you were them, would you want that comb back ?
Is that why Bernie moved to the very whitest part of the entire country for his political career?
Worse is there are folks who actually believe this, I mean REALLY so...
Only so much to say to one of them
Bye is best...
Sanders is ready for a straight jacket and a padded room.
3 of the 6 officers charged in the Freddie Gray case were black. Which goes to show even if police departments are more "diverse" black people will still have problems with them. AND white liberals like Bernie will still blame their favorite phoney boogeyman "racism"
Nothing can change until the real problem is addressed-- the black underclass and its criminal culture and value system. And because of PC it never will be.
How nice. Someone from the whitest State in the Union lecturing the rest of us about race.
Oh, tell me more about the abuse the poor innocent blacks are suffering.
>>>If anything ... whites have been getting screwed for at least the time of obumbles administration<<<
No, Bernie the Commie Cracker gets a big fat check from Uncle Sugar for being the Resident Senate Socialist Malcontent. The poor guy can’t even afford a good Barber.
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