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

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17. Her point is Vermont is a very white state -- which it is -- with a high proportion of incarcerated

from the small percentage of Blacks that live there.


From the article in the OP:


"But with a population that's almost entirely white — 95.2%, according to 2014 Census estimates — and consists of just over 626,000 people, the brand of sequestered, small-scale liberalism that Vermont represents has rarely been tested by the strains of racial diversity. As such, a question arises: How does the state's progressivism apply across racial lines?

"One possible answer lies in the numbers: According to data from Vermont's Department of Corrections, this liberal enclave has one of the most disproportionate rates of black incarceration in the country. 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."
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I think her point is valid, even if the math is a bit wrong or not stated as correctly as a peer reviewed article might require. It's a tweet, not much different from conversation. While I don't always do it, I try looking for the point in the tweet or even a brief statement, while not getting hung up on whether every word/phrase is absolutely correct.

Her comment -- whether the math is correct or not -- is supported by the article and this comment: "[There's] a major consistency: Black people are treated very differently than white people in Vermont." — Allen Gilbert, executive director of the ACLU of Vermont