Bernie admits need to get schooled on African-American incarceration*

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103. My response the same, "Oh, for god's sake!"

Such a phony puff piece. Sanders has been representing Vermont in congress since 1991, in local Vermont government before that. There is no rational or valid reason he would not know this. It was his job and his duty to know it. 76 is a little late to start "evolving" to care enough to, say, read a little article on the subject, forget reading one of the many studies that were submitted to congress over those decades.

Interestingly, Sanders is also bizarrely ignorant about government itself. From his two major 2016 editorial board interviews, we learned that he had no idea how the various laws and departments of government would be used to achieve his promised policies. In a quarter century in DC, did he never think he might need to actually know how to use government make the changes he so passionately demanded happen?

What was he doing all those years besides just voting for whatever the Democratic leadership brought up for a vote? Does he have a hobby?

Black Vermonters make up just 1.2% of the state's general population, but 10.7% of its incarcerated population. This means that, proportionally, there are nearly 10 times more black people locked up in Vermont's jails and prisons on a given day than there are walking its streets.

Few criminal justice scholars or workers in Vermont seem able to explain how this happened. The black incarceration rate grew faster here than in any other in the state between 1993 and 2007, before it leveled out and stayed relatively constant. But shortly before its peak, the Sentencing Project reported that Vermont had the second-highest black-to-white incarceration rate in America — topped only by Iowa, another state with a small black population.

https://mic.com/articles/124341/here-s-how-black-people-actually-fare-in-vermont-with-bernie-sanders-as-their-senator#.w6zO74mt1