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15. So the comments from black journalists and pundits is just "spin" is it?

Mon Mar 7, 2016, 05:44 PM

Mar 2016

The ones calling out these incredibly tone deaf comments, they're just "spin from the Clinton camp" is it?

Well it's no wonder that Sanders can barely make a dent in minority communities. According to his fervent supporters, every single black and brown person in America that disagrees with him is with the "Clinton camp." That's a shit load of people.

when you're white, you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto. You don't know what it's like to be poor.

This comment is not only completely untrue it implies that the only people that DO know what these things are like are non-whites. You can back flip and try to spin this any way that you like but that is an incredibly ignorant comment to make and in fact, shoots with both barrels the claim made endlessly by white people that they don't know what "white privilege" is because they too have experienced poverty.

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Sanders "ghetto" remark making its way through Black media today [View all] UMTerp01 Mar 2016 OP

Post removed Post removed Mar 2016 #1

-D for poor attempt at deflection emulatorloo Mar 2016 #2

What does this mean? JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #3

What did he say? underpants Mar 2016 #4

Here's a wee bit... OneGrassRoot Mar 2016 #5

Sweet Jesus, what the EVER LOVING fuck?? Number23 Mar 2016 #14

I know... OneGrassRoot Mar 2016 #17

It's worse than that! FrenchieCat Mar 2016 #24

I saw that. And I also saw the denizens of GDP twisting into pretzels trying to downplay his initial Number23 Mar 2016 #25

It really does damage on the one hand... FrenchieCat Mar 2016 #30

Good summary here emulatorloo Mar 2016 #6

Thanks. I had not seen this. riversedge Mar 2016 #29

This is nothing but spin from the Clinton camp CoffeeCat Mar 2016 #7

Thanks underpants Mar 2016 #8

IMHO it came off pretty tone-deaf. emulatorloo Mar 2016 #10

So the comments from black journalists and pundits is just "spin" is it? Number23 Mar 2016 #15

You're in the African American group, by the way. yardwork Mar 2016 #19

I didn't realize that I was in the African American group CoffeeCat Mar 2016 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author rbrnmw Mar 2016 #21

No, it's not "spin from the Clinton camp"... Black twitter is reacting to sanders' own words. Cha Mar 2016 #34

Here is some background. MADem Mar 2016 #20

two things....there are probably more than one 'take' on his comments reception-wise... islandmkl Mar 2016 #9

...Holy fucking shit. VulgarPoet Mar 2016 #11

This right here: Digital Puppy Mar 2016 #12

A Howard Dean scream moment... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #13

for all the focus on those large rallies he would have JI7 Mar 2016 #16

I think you're right. SusanCalvin Mar 2016 #18

I cringed rbrnmw Mar 2016 #22

I'm a Sander's supporter cannabis_flower Mar 2016 #33

Yeah, it was The Traveler Mar 2016 #26

When my son was picked up by the cops I had to go to court the next day to get him out. mikehiggins Mar 2016 #28

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #32

But that's not what Bernie said. yardwork Mar 2016 #35

Bernie is a good man who's just clumsy and inexperiened in courting black voters bluestateguy Mar 2016 #27

This is the thing.. Spacedog1973 Mar 2016 #36

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #31