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EffieBlack

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39. This is sarcasm?

Fri Jun 15, 2018, 11:27 AM

Jun 2018

Please.

Backstage, I met privately with Sanders, and was immediately struck by his vastly improved mastery of core issues around criminal justice reform. But it wasn’t just his newfound fluency on these issues that surprised me — it was his emotion.

“It’s disgusting, Shaun, that our country is basically criminalizing poverty. I’ll be honest with you. I really didn’t know this was happening. I had no idea hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly African-Americans, were being held in jail, for months or years, even though they’ve never been convicted of a crime, simply because they can’t afford bail,” Sanders told me in a tiny dressing room backstage before the event.

“I’ve learned a lot,” he continued. “I see the racial disparities clearer than ever. I want to help – just tell me how I can best help and we’ll do it.” I was touched. He wasn’t reading from a script. He was admitting to me, as he soon would from the stage, in front of thousands of people, that he hasn’t always gotten this quite right.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/14/bernie-sanders-criminal-justice-reform/

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Can we at least learn basic math? Soledad O'Brien tweet about Sanders was deleted because of this [View all] Exotica Jun 2018 OP

Quit mathin' me. Just tell me the damn answer ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #1

it's in his tax returns, so who knows Exotica Jun 2018 #6

:) You're very right. But Sanders himself used phony Hortensis Jun 2018 #14

+1. The devil is in the details every time. ucrdem Jun 2018 #64

Her point is still valid. Hoyt Jun 2018 #2

yes to a point, but a huge blunder like that doesn't help make the case, and makes it ripe for Exotica Jun 2018 #5

She doesn't need to "make the case." Bernie Sanders said something really stupid that demonstrated EffieBlack Jun 2018 #38

Soledad's blunder isnt helping keep Bernies feet to the fire Exotica Jun 2018 #41

No, it's NOT on her. She's a journalist who sent out a tweet. That has NOTHING to do with what EffieBlack Jun 2018 #42

You miss the forest for the trees. O'Brien's clumsy attack on a legit Exotica Jun 2018 #43

Actually YOU'RE missing the forest for the trees EffieBlack Jun 2018 #44

Methinks you doth protest too much. But we will just have to agree Exotica Jun 2018 #46

Not really. Not when she's literally saying there are 10 X more Black people in jail in Vermont pnwmom Jun 2018 #11

Her point is Vermont is a very white state -- which it is -- with a high proportion of incarcerated Hoyt Jun 2018 #17

That's not what her TWEET said. And my point is Math Matters. pnwmom Jun 2018 #18

Thank you! Exotica Jun 2018 #48

Her math was not "a bit wrong". It was off by more than 20 thousand percent. Tom Rinaldo Jun 2018 #21

Then leave it at: "Black people are treated very differently than white people in Vermont." Hoyt Jun 2018 #23

That is a fair (and important) statement. Though it isn't only true for Vermont. n/t Tom Rinaldo Jun 2018 #26

No it really isn't mythology Jun 2018 #20

Her point was -- "Black people are treated very differently than white people in Vermont." Hoyt Jun 2018 #24

Thanks. elleng Jun 2018 #3

Well, to be fair, how many of the 1700-ish are actually walking down the street at any given moment? mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #4

So, try to DO SOMETHING BOUT IT THEN, Bernie ... now that you finally know and all mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #7

But but but... CentralMass Jun 2018 #8

What's laughable is that tweet was held up as a "schooling" LOL Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2018 #9

What's tragic is that you consider the underlying message trivial enough to be laughable. Squinch Jun 2018 #60

I'm pretty god damn sure Bernie was being sarcastic. phleshdef Jun 2018 #10

Because of all those civil rights bona fides he earned at that sit-in fifty years ago? Squinch Jun 2018 #27

No, because its painfully fucking obvious to anyone with an average or better IQ. phleshdef Jun 2018 #32

Nope. He wasnt being sarcastic. Squinch Jun 2018 #33

Post removed Post removed Jun 2018 #35

This is sarcasm? EffieBlack Jun 2018 #39

It absolutely is not. And if you can't argue without ad homimem Squinch Jun 2018 #54

Projections about IQ. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #50

Narrator: He wasn't. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2018 #34

Yes and Bri schooled Soledad on Twitter over her tweet kamalafan Jun 2018 #12

So basically this is saying there is a disparity in which 10x as many blacks as whites by Squinch Jun 2018 #31

Briahna Gray is a fucking moron. OilemFirchen Jun 2018 #58

Thank you. I posted this yesterday: spooky3 Jun 2018 #13

your reply was one of a couple that inspired me to post this OP Exotica Jun 2018 #15

Thanks! spooky3 Jun 2018 #30

I don't know much about the numbers, but I'm in Vermont on an almost daily basis. Vinca Jun 2018 #16

People from cities traffic drugs and many of them are white. So WTF? Squinch Jun 2018 #28

Your twisting my post, but whatever . . . Vinca Jun 2018 #36

No, really I'm not. Squinch Jun 2018 #55

Apparently you want a long list of every person I know who is not white, plus a tally of all Vinca Jun 2018 #56

You're the one who needed to give the tally of those two black people you know slightly or know of. Squinch Jun 2018 #59

You're not worth responding to, but I'm sure you're a "last worder," so have at it. Vinca Jun 2018 #61

I appreciate your sense of fairness and the importance of reliable informaton Tom Rinaldo Jun 2018 #19

Ditto mountain grammy Jun 2018 #63

Semantics, wrong about Vermont right about Sanders obtuseness regarding minority jailing .... uponit7771 Jun 2018 #22

Exactly. Hoyt Jun 2018 #25

if every other senator is so familiar, that is not exactly a badge of honor, JCanete Jun 2018 #52

Exactly EffieBlack Jun 2018 #57

Yes, but pouncing on technical errors like that that don't actually change the argument is silly kcr Jun 2018 #29

It's deflection EffieBlack Jun 2018 #40

Nice try at deflection. But it doesn't matter that Soledad misquoted a response to Bernie's quote. EffieBlack Jun 2018 #37

I was NOT whinging on about anything. I was pointing out a Exotica Jun 2018 #45

How is Soledad's tweet a "self-inflicted wound to people who are legitimately questioning Sanders?" EffieBlack Jun 2018 #47

Simple as Simon Exotica Jun 2018 #49

Bernie supporters using something one person - who has absolutely no connection to people trying to EffieBlack Jun 2018 #51

At this point I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish with me Exotica Jun 2018 #53

I think her point is pretty clear. nt ucrdem Jun 2018 #62

As is mine Exotica Jun 2018 #65