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angrychair

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15. What???

Reply to leftofcool (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 02:09 AM

Dec 2015

That is an amazingly tone deaf and perversely crude thing to say in my opinion. In a time when the US has more of its citizens, per capita, in prison than any modern economy in the world. When black males are more likely to be arrested and jailed then any other racial group. When 51% of all income earners live on less than $30,000 a year. When .08% (yes, point zero eight percent) of income earners earn 53% of all wages earned in America. When voter surpression and gerrymandering, of some kind, occurs in over half of the state's.
Yes, Bernie is right and it does matter.

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