Can we at least learn basic math? Soledad O'Brien tweet about Sanders was deleted because of this [View all]

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The MIC article she got it from used the word "proportionally" which O'Brien left out as well

And NO, this is not an OP in support of Sanders at all. I do NOT want him to run in 2020 for POTUS (I want Kamala Harris), and I wish a real, actual Democratic candidate would take the 2nd VT Senate seat he now holds.

I am writing this because I simply cannot believe the basic error and all the assumptions that came from people just buying into it were made.

Vermont has a HORRID racial disparity in terms in black v white incarceration rates, BUT, there are NOT 10 times as many blacks locked up in VT as there are walking the streets.



here is the link to the tweet (now deleted)

Link to tweet

this is

what it was, before she deleted it.



So

The current population of Vermonst is estimated at 623,960 in 2018

Using the MIC article own numbers

Black Vermonters make up just 1.2% of the state's general population

That means there are are 7488 African Americans living in Vermont.

As of 2017, the Vermont inmate population was 1722, TOTAL, for all races (and going down rapidly since 2008).

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/appropriations/fy_2018/FY2018%20Department%20Budgets/FY2018%20Department%20of%20Corrections%20Budget%20Presentation.pdf

The black incarceration rate in Vermont (per the MIC article O'Brien used), is 10.7%, which yields 184 African American inmates.

Even if you double that number (for African Americans in local jails temporarily)

368 is a FAR cry from the over 70 THOUSAND it would need to be to make Soledad's Tweet true, which is why she deleted it.