Posted on 03/06/2016 10:17:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It seems the line from Sunday night's debate causing the biggest amount of buzz on social media came from Bernie Sanders when talking about race in America. After Hillary Clinton said that she, as a white person, has "never had the experience" of so many African-Americans in regard to discrimination, Sanders tried to amplify the point:
• "When you are white, you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto, you don't know what it's like to be poor, you don't know what it's like to be hassled when you are walking down a street or dragged out of a car." (Here's the video.)
His use of the word "ghetto" in particular had critics in motion.
• "Saying 'ghetto' is ... not a great moment," writes Maggie Haberman in the New York Times debate blog. "It's also not that far off from Trump saying 'the blacks.'"
• "He knows that all Black people don't live in ghettos, right?" tweets Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post.
• But it wasn't all bad: The Hill notes that Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson was sympathetic. "Besides Bernie's comment about 'living in the ghetto,' I thought his answer re: white privilege was solid," he tweets.
• "As (journalist Joy) Reid suggested, it's true that black Americans disproportionately suffer from poverty. But it's just not true that all minorities' experience is defined by poverty," writes German Lopez at Vox.
A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto
In ... the ... ghetto!
The US government will allow white people to live in peace.
Oh no, is ‘ghetto’ a “trigger word?” Did the snowflakes need to retreat to their “safe spaces?”
Bernie also blasted Hillary for her position of holding gun manufacturers responsible for the misuse of guns by individuals. He said “Mrs. Clinton, if that is your position, then you advocate putting all gun manufacturers out of business.”
She didn’t deny it, but tried to weasel out of it. Then she accused Bernie of having the same position as the NRA. The lib crowd, needless to say, was on Hillary’s side.
And there are, of course, no poor white people...
Thank you. Thank you very much.
I grew up dirt poor. I don't even want to talk about it.
That one got under my skin. Want to talk about out of touch with reality.
Ost of my childhood was lower middle class,but there were 3-4 years where we were really poor.
There are a lot of white people that ought to be really offended by a comment like this. It’s preposterous.
Cue the Elvis Song “In the Ghetto”.
If communists like Sanders have their way, the whole country will be a ghetto.
That way we’re all equal... equally miserable (except for the Politburo members like Bernie living in their mansions, confiscated from those that worked for a living).
That’s their goal. They won’t be satisfied until we’re all poor and starving in the dark and the cold...or dead.
Mac Davis wrote that.
I’m surprised Sanders didn’t sing it LOL
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