Bernie Sanders - Whites don't know what it's like to be poor

christiefan915 said:
I looked at the Vermont demographics and 94% of the people are white. Bernie must not have a lot of experience with minorities.

OT, I had not idea the population was so small, less than 1 million.
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I live in a city with over 800K. Pretty crazy to think it's almost the same population as a state.
 
tinfoil said:
Can you explain the context? I grew up poor. I know what it's like to have to wear shoes until they have holes in the soles and I know what it's like to have only a couple of pairs of pants for the entire school year. To this day I wear shoes until they fall apart and I can't bring myself to go buy new shoes until they do.
What other context are you talking about? How should a formerly poor white person like myself take such comments? Truly curious about what you can come up with. I can't think of any context in which this is a presidential thing to say about any race.
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I said later on - I thought it was clear that he was speaking specifically to the inner city experience, and specifically to the black inner city experience (so, not just poverty, but things like stop & frisk).

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but reading the context & hearing his comments on it today, it seems to me that this is what he was talking about. He knows that there are poor white people. He's not stupid.
 
Thing1 said:
I said later on - I thought it was clear that he was speaking specifically to the inner city experience, and specifically to the black inner city experience (so, not just poverty, but things like stop & frisk).

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but reading the context & hearing his comments on it today, it seems to me that this is what he was talking about. He knows that there are poor white people. He's not stupid.
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When Hillary answered she said as a white person she would never know what it's like to walk in a black person's shoes. That's about the best answer you can give in that type of scenario because it's true. Bernie's problem can when instead of speaking about himself he tried to speak about all white people and thus the awkward answer.
 
Sanders is all about poverty and class. His philosophy centers around blue collar workers, the middle class, and the underclass. But it's all undermined by the modern left, and rhetoric from fucktards like Only Black Lives Matter, so he is forced to make pandering comments, which make no sense, because they are stupid lies that the left hold as gospel. Fuck the left.
 
cawacko said:
When Hillary answered she said as a white person she would never know what it's like to walk in a black person's shoes. That's about the best answer you can give in that type of scenario because it's true. Bernie's problem can when instead of speaking about himself he tried to speak about all white people and thus the awkward answer.
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Do black people know what it's like to walk in white peoples shoes lol? I've never been able to make sense of that. All experiences are subjective.
 
christiefan915 said:
I'm not going to criticize people for how they took that comment. I think it was awkwardly stated, maybe a bit clueless, but I don't assign evil intent to it. He didn't seem to be blaming people for their poverty.
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It was very insulting to anyone who ever had to eat a single pack of top ramen for dinner and go to bed still hungry.

Fuck Bernie! He had my support until now. I would have given my vote to him if the dems nominated him buit now I can't support such an obvious race-baiter
 
tinfoil said:
It was very insulting to anyone who ever had to eat a single pack of top ramen for dinner and go to bed still hungry.

Fuck Bernie! He had my support until now. I would have given my vote to him if the dems nominated him buit now I can't support such an obvious race-baiter
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He's trying to avoid getting shot by the fucktards that mobbed him in Seattle, and destroyed O'Malley. Give him a break, Stir...
 
Don Lemon asked them what their racial blind spots are.

Sanders’ responses came the closest to actually responding to the question, even if unintentionally. Lemon was pretty clear in explaining what he meant by “racial blindspot,” and he even explained it twice because Hillary initially blew off the question to answer some other question, and yet both candidates gave answers that were not about racial blindspots at all.

A racial blindspot isn’t something you don’t know about being black. That’s not a spot, that’s your whole life. A blindspot is an area of insufficient understanding that you need to work on. You can’t work on getting jacked up by the cops or followed around a department store when you’re white, but you can work on trying to understand it, for example.

Both candidates missed a great opportunity to address their own blindspots, which for Hillary, might have meant explaining how she maybe has had to work on understanding how black people feel when they hear the word “Superpredator” (which even came up during the debate) or how they felt when, in 2008, she talked about “hard-working Americans, white Americans”:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/very-dis...bernie-sanders-response-on-racial-blindspots/
 
NOVA said:
Don Lemon asked them what their racial blind spots are.

Sanders’ responses came the closest to actually responding to the question, even if unintentionally. Lemon was pretty clear in explaining what he meant by “racial blindspot,” and he even explained it twice because Hillary initially blew off the question to answer some other question, and yet both candidates gave answers that were not about racial blindspots at all.

A racial blindspot isn’t something you don’t know about being black. That’s not a spot, that’s your whole life. A blindspot is an area of insufficient understanding that you need to work on. You can’t work on getting jacked up by the cops or followed around a department store when you’re white, but you can work on trying to understand it, for example.

Both candidates missed a great opportunity to address their own blindspots, which for Hillary, might have meant explaining how she maybe has had to work on understanding how black people feel when they hear the word “Superpredator” (which even came up during the debate) or how they felt when, in 2008, she talked about “hard-working Americans, white Americans”:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/very-dis...bernie-sanders-response-on-racial-blindspots/
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Sanders problem is it's not just Hillary slamming him for the comment.
 
This is how diseased liberals brain works. They actually think ALL white people are rich, and ALL blacks are poor.

I had a dumb lib on FB tell me whites need to "give back" to blacks and help fix things. There are a lot of black folks doing better than me, and I am suppose to support them now?

This is some sick divisive shit coming from the communist and being supported by the Dem party. These people are dividers and they are extremists.

Also isn't it insulting to suggest that all blacks are poor and in the ghettos? Pathetic how dumb people are.
 
Eno L. Camino said:
Naw, he's a race-hating whiteist, like all entitled white males. He doesn't know what it's like to be poor, but he does understand the social dynamics of a safe space.
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He knows how to pathetically pander to blacks to get their votes. And moron black liberals eat it up. Its hilarious that they actually think the dems give 2 shits about them. They don't and never have. They use them as useful idiots.
 
I Love America said:
liberals believe that being poor and black is worse than being poor and white. Even poor white people have white privilege according to lefties.

What I find surprising is that anyone finds any of this surprising. It shouldn't be. This has been the trajectory of leftism for 60 years and it has gone virtually unchecked for all of that time.
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We are now seeing the product of leftism. College students passing out at the sight of a confederate flag. The left wants to immobilize the individual so they are weak and have to rely on the state.
 
Eno L. Camino said:
All you have to know is a guy named Martin O'Malley said "All Lives Matter," and died a slow, racist, political death. Bernie already had a run-in with the dumbfucks of Only Black Lives Matter, and doesn't want another.
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And that showed how weak he was. If he's too PC to stand up to a bunch of worthless BLM activists, how's he going to fight ISIS? Or Russia? The man's weaker than Obama.
 
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