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.
In other words, a slum.
Yes, Bernie, Whites just do not know the experience of being forced to eat at Church’s Chicken.
Shooting erupts at fast-food restaurant after complaint over cleaner
Published March 08, 2016 Associated Press
Police say a man eating dinner at a Philadelphia fast-food restaurant was angry at a worker for cleaning near his table and shot another employee who tried to intervene.
Capt. Nicholas Brown tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that the man at a Church’s Chicken in the city’s Tioga section was enraged Sunday that the worker was spraying cleaning solution near him. When another worker tried to calm the man, he took out a handgun and fired, hitting the second worker several times.
Brown says the two workers are brothers.
The gunman then fled south. No arrests have been made and police are looking for him.
Police say the 19-year-old victim was taken to Temple University Hospital with gunshot wounds to his chest and stomach. His condition wasn’t released.
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