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Sanders' Remark on 'Ghetto' Causes a Stir
Newser ^ | March 6, 2016 | The Editors

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.


TOPICS: Vermont; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: 2016election; berniesanders; blacks; election2016; poverty; sanders; vermont; whites
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To: RC one; BlueNgold; Secret Agent Man; All

There are many racial sensitivities. I was writing something about the poor and lower middle class, and a black acquaintance said I should say “low wealth” not poor.

I grew up relatively poor in an upper middle class neighborhood. I can remember my mother in tears at the front door because they were going to turn off our phone or gas, or electricity. At age 10 I would go into my piggy bank and give her the money to pay the bill. At that age I would earn money with snow shoveling (1948). One day I earned $9. My father made me work in the Victory Garden we kept until 1954. I hated not being able to play with my friends on weekends. However, when we had a surplus he would let me sell it to the neighbors and keep the money. We also grew and canned about 1/4th of all our food. My mother had a 45 year old friend who was my size. I got her used clothes. Great fashion for a high school student!! My father turned off the oil and installed pots stoves burning anthracite coal. Much carrying too and fro of coal and ashes. Mom used to buy these cheap dry soup packs and cook it with neck bones. Sometimes there were little black wheat weavels. I would complain but Pop would joke and say “more protein” as I picked them out and put on the side of the dish. So that is what poverty looked like in a white suburb 2 miles from NYC.


21 posted on 03/07/2016 12:10:28 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

22 posted on 03/07/2016 12:12:59 AM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (noob)
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To: RC one

Apparently ‘Jewish’ Sanders knows nothing of the history of where ghettos come from and where the word was coined. A hint. The people where white . . . https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059.


23 posted on 03/07/2016 12:15:14 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bern made Twitter cry /
Another Dem moment /
From a dull-witted Commie /
In the ghettooooo

24 posted on 03/07/2016 1:14:12 AM PST by StAnDeliver ("Sweet, sweet tears..")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s a certain irony to this as the term ghetto actually originally referred to a place where Jews lived.


25 posted on 03/07/2016 1:32:06 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: StAnDeliver

Carrying coal-ash barrels up the stairs and out to the curb made me the awesome behemoth that I am today!


26 posted on 03/07/2016 1:35:01 AM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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To: BlueNgold

Bernie lives in a poor black neighborhood? right?

or else he would be a hypocrite.


27 posted on 03/07/2016 2:11:35 AM PST by dp0622
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To: gleeaikin

The snowflakes of today couldn’t handle real poverty.


28 posted on 03/07/2016 2:27:34 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Socialists have an amazing ability to hear dog whistles. Selectively of course.


29 posted on 03/07/2016 2:31:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are a number of towns in Vermont that are starting to resemble ‘white ghettoes’.


30 posted on 03/07/2016 2:34:05 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: who knows what evil?

Here in NJ we’re watching former white suburbs devolve into Hispanic ghettoes; the American taxpayers leave, and the nail salons, unlicensed barbershops, uninspected Latino fast-food places, laundromats, and check-cashing places can’t pick up the slack...


31 posted on 03/07/2016 3:33:34 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cowboy Bob
I would do anything to live in a “white ghetto,” but the government won't allow it.

That's easy. Go anywhere in Appalachia and live in a trailer park.

32 posted on 03/07/2016 3:54:33 AM PST by sphinx
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and his mama cried

Ed

33 posted on 03/07/2016 4:07:24 AM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: kearnyirish2
Yup. I lived in a neighborhood that was thriving. It had new home construction, new schools, and new businesses. Then the government moved in hundreds of people into apartments nearby that were classified as Section 8. No one told the town that Section 8 was invading. In fact, officials denied it. Very quickly, things went south. Crime became rampant. The schools, previously a jewel full of dedicated teachers, became places of mayhem, drugs, and violence. The grocery stores were filled with people using EBT at every checkout. Then the Illegal Invaders with an anchor baby started moving in. We sold and got out. We we lucky.
34 posted on 03/07/2016 4:36:07 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These two pandering socialists cater to negroes in America in a totally hypocritical way. It’s almost as though they think that the negro vote is what will propel their sorry asses into the Black Hut and the group is highly gullible.

Why an American, negro or Caucasian, would think that the election of either of these two lunatics would pave their ghetto streets with gold is one of life’s mysteries. It is also indicative of the large percentage of low information and low IQ American voters.


35 posted on 03/07/2016 5:03:32 AM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: BlueNgold

Apparently most blacks are dragged out of cars by someone. Not sure who or the motive. Not sure how I have never witnessed it while riding down the road.


36 posted on 03/07/2016 5:18:54 AM PST by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: gleeaikin

My spouse grew up in Appalachia with no running water and coal for heating. Food was optional.

Sanders needs to get out of his lefty cabal and take a look at what poverty exists in areas where the government couldn’t care less about the people.

Southern Kentucy is in desperate shape along with West Virginia and points south.

But who gives a rats about some poor, trashy, white crackers anyway /s.


37 posted on 03/07/2016 5:47:49 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I resent this privileged a$$hole saying that I don’t know what it’s like to be poor, and to live in a ghetto. Whites are not born rich and in a mansion. Sanders is an s$$Whole.


38 posted on 03/07/2016 5:48:41 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: SkyPilot

New single-family homes are no longer built in my area (childless Americans don’t need them, and the high taxes - 75% of which go to public schools - are just spent funding education for someone else’s children). Instead, large hives for worker bees are built - and a certain percentage of the units have to be “low income”...

For years people thought Americans were just moving somewhere else; now we know better: They are just dying out.


39 posted on 03/07/2016 3:52:03 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: OpusatFR; Undecided 2012; All

My late husband grew up in a country village in Iowa. His father was a railroad station agent and they lived above the station. The outhouse and water pump were outside. Winters went as low as minus 25f. There was a big pot stove in the center. The bedrooms were off to the side, and sometimes he woke with a streamer of snow on his blanket. He had to carry water upstairs every day for his mother. He really grew some muscles. Once a week on Saturday they heated water for a big tub by the pot stove. Mom bathed first, husband and brother next, and dad last. All the same water. Sunday they went to church. They did have a big garden and fresh vegetables. Having traveled in Vermont, I suspect Sanders has seen some white poverty there too.


40 posted on 03/07/2016 10:10:13 PM PST by gleeaikin
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