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

[Hortensis]

14. :) You're very right. But Sanders himself used phony

claims arising from or through the very same source, The Sentencing Project, when he was running for president and he felt they'd work for him. And, yes, the subject was this one he's now claiming he was bizarrely unaware of as he attempts a reset of his image with POC.

In 2015 Sanders earned 2 Pinocchios from the WaPo for using an old, commonly quoted popular culture claim about national black incarceration that hadn't been valid for almost a decade. The "one in three black males ‘born today’ will end up in jail" one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/06/16/the-stale-statistic-that-one-in-three-black-males-has-a-chance-of-ending-up-in-jail/?utm_term=.cd9d84a56316

It was an out of date prediction of what would happen if 2001 incarceration rates continued. They did not; 2001 was a high point and they'd declined every year since. (Needless to say, that quote was not helpful to POC and used against them a lot by right-wing politicians).

This was likely just a talking point supplied before the interview by a similarly ignorant and sloppy staffer. But Sanders has been a public servant for 37 years, 27+ in congress, and to this day still cannot speak accurately, knowledgeably or it seems even honestly on the subject of this ongoing atrocity.