2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I have less concern about Bernie's use of the term "ghetto" than that his frame of reference for POC [View all]GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)unequal protections and access to justice under the law and strengthening social programs from social security to healthcare.'
He mentions MJ but says "the African-American community and the white community smoke marijuana at about equal levels" so it isn't the use of MJ that he is associating with POC but rather the grossly unequal outcome. He isn't saying POC all smoke reefer -- he is citing the prejudice that results in 4x higher arrest rates and different sentence for the same petty crime.
Sanders is consistent and if he has an umbrella cause it is fairness. Justice and fairness by definition have to be color blind but if someone asks Bernie specifically about POC he cites prejudice and its impact as a unique and additional injustice that POC face regardless of income.
Hillary Clinton is more a representation of the status quo when I think about politics or about what it means to be a Democrat, Bamberg said.
Bernie Sanders on the other hand is bold. He doesnt think like everyone else. He is not afraid to call things as they are.
Meeting Sanders had convinced him. It was not a presidential candidate talking to a state representative or an old white man talking to a young black guy, he said, but a man talking to a man about things they are passionate about.
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