“When you’re white you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”, Sanders said during the debate, which was held in Flint, Mich. “You don’t know what it’s like to be poor”.
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Sanders’s response on Sunday caused a stir when he said, “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 poor”, he said.
Sanders’ answer – specifically his implication that a “ghetto” is exclusively where poor, African-Americans live – drew a strong reaction from Twitter.
That’s the message that’s bubbling up online after Sunday night’s CNN’s Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, where host Don Lemon asked both Sanders and his opponent Hillary Clinton to identify their “racial blind spots”. “We must be firm in making it clear that we will end institutional racism and reform a broken criminal justice system”.
“There is no candidate in this race who’s talked more about poverty than I have”, Sanders said. “It’s also not that far off from Trump saying ‘the blacks'”.
“You don’t understand the degree to which we are terrorized….”
“In that speech, I was talking about the impact violent crime and vicious drug cartels were having on communities across the country and the particular danger they posed to children and families”, she said in a recent statement. First, there are the simple but not widely known facts that happen to contradict about several stereotypes.
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That figure was 8 million more than poor blacks and 5 million more than poor Latinos, the Root reported. “This pattern points directly to the continued existence of housing discrimination, and it’s many forms”.
