So, when you are white, you don't know what is like to be poor.

[lunamagica]

I had no idea...poverty is a black problem.

[metroins]

1. I don't know how well

This thread is going to go for you.

[lunamagica]

4. Well, that's what SBS said...

Which I thought was completely clueless and very insulting.

[metroins]

6. Hey, I was white and poor

No need to write a biography on myself.

I just don't mess with race issues on this site. I don't think they go well.

[Lucinda]

3. Yep. Not good.

[lunamagica]

5. It was awful, lucinda

[Luminous Animal]

7. Nope. It is a white issue Clearly you have had little exposure to the black community.

In almost every demographic profile, black human beings are at the bottom.

[lunamagica]

8. So, whites don't know what is like to be poor?

[Luminous Animal]

9. Not even close to what it means being poor as a black person.

[Nonhlanhla]

10. What a silly statement.

It ignores both the reality of white poverty, and the reality that the majority of African Americans are actually middle class. (I don't know the stats on other ethnic groups.)

[TheFarseer]

11. he didn't say it well granted

but I think he meant, white people by and large, don't know what's it's like to live in the inner city in a neighborhood that the government has given up on, the police have given up on and commercially has been given up on.

[NurseJackie]

12. A devastating gaffe. The end is near.

[Barack_America]

13. You aren't aware that poverty disproportionately affects Blacks?

And that poor Blacks are much more likely to remain in the cycle of poverty?

Really?

[wundermaus]

14. Bernie obviously misspoke.

Poverty knows no race.
There is equal opportunity to live in a ghetto.
Only by the grace of god there go I... or you.
Bernie fumbled a few times when he should not have, and held back when he should have finished her off.

Alas, it is not his nature to attack. It is his nature to help.

That is why I want him to be our president.

Enough with attacking each other. Time to start helping each other.