@bbedward said:

They're actually owned by a right leaning paper. Tampa Bay Times. They endorsed Romney in the last election.

@westside-steve said:

Well Bernie has to do something to stop the bleeding, 90% of blacks are going with Hillary for some unknown reason. In the Democrat Party, Black people blame white people, white people blame corporations.

PS PolitiFact is a left-wing organization. That doesn't make them wrong across the board just, you know, keep that grain of salt handy.

WSS

They're owned by some newspaper that endorsed Hillary I believe.

@westside-steve said:

Because Hillary was/is married to the first black president.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/clinton-honored-first-black-president-black-caucus-dinner

PS PolitiFact is a left-wing organization. That doesn't make them wrong across the board just, you know, keep that grain of salt handy.

WSS

@the-cysko-kid said:

I had an Ethiopian coworker who was appalled at the conditions in certain parts of WV. Below third world.

@bbedward said:

If Trump had said this, you know they would've rated it Pants on Fire.

My buddy was taking forever and I was getting antsy when 2 black dudes approached me. It was summer time and late at night. One of them grabbed a shovel and told me to give him all my money.

Let's just say that when my buddy finally came down I was sitting in the passenger side with two black dudes out cold by the truck.Lol

No idea why I told you really but after reading VaporTails post it got to jogging my memories of bad places.

@mudfly said:

Bernie says this and everyone is appalled.....Trump talks about his dick and leads the polls.....thats some hilariously scary shit.....

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't one of the other candidates bring up the small hands reference?

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@bbedward said:

That actually happened to my parents when my mom was pregnant with me, and it wasn't even at night. Mom, dad, uncle, two of uncle's friends were in the car. A black guy comes up and kicks the car while they're stopped at an intersection. Uncle gets out to go beat the shit out of him. As they're fighting, more and more people, all black, show up to join the fight and beat the shit out of some white kids. There's about 10 vs 4. Another car full of black people show up, my dad, who happened to be on the football team, recognized one of his teammates from this new car. He shouts to him, "Hey man, we could use your help," and everyone stops fighting. Stupid, racially motivated bullshit.

@mld-woody said:

The title of this thread is exactly what Bernie said. It's not being taken out of context. Bernie said what he said to make a point. While I don't think it makes him a racist, it was an incredibly stupid and racist thing to say (though it probably doesn't really hurt the demographic who's voting for him). Ironically, it's more racist than anything Trump has ever said. Bernie deserves flak for it, but I still like him as a candidate.

Having lived a portion of my life with my poor, minority white family in East Cleveland, I did take some personal offense to this. While I'm annoyed by Bernie, the double standards for what Trump says and what other candidates say is pissing me off more than anything about this. Trump is a racist for wanting to protect the borders? Trump is a racist for suggesting that some illegal Mexicans are criminals? Those statements are xenophobic, sure, but they're not generalizing an entire race of people by saying that they are incapable of experiencing something because of the color of their skin. That's what Bernie did.

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ˈrāˌsizəm/

noun

the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

Even Bernie Bros Are Upset With Sanders' Comment On Poverty

Bernie Sanders alienated even some of his most committed fans when he said during Sunday night’s Democratic debate that white Americans don’t know what it’s like to be poor.

“When you are 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,” he said, answering a question about his racial blind spots.

The remark inspired an onslaught of a criticism across Twitter and Reddit, with more than 11,000 tweets talking about poor whites during the debate, Vocativ found. Some slammed Sanders’ comment as not only offensive to whites but also to black Americans.

http://www.vocativ.com/news/294143/even-bernie-bros-are-upset-with-sanders-comment-on-poverty/

@logicisforsquares said:

The uneducated white/redneck pillbilly stereotype probably is widely pervasive among trump supporters, I would imagine.

@westside-steve said:

You haven't spent much time in the sticks in WV. They absolutely love the GOP and hate Dems. Our legislature is overwhelmingly Republican after almost a 100 years of Dem dominance. If Sanders were to sit down with them and explain that they would get more SSI or disability, they would be out voting twice for him.

@pumpkin-eater said:

racism is generally associated with some form of negative stereotype...ie Messicans are lazy. Generalizations maybe not so much. Like black people tend to be really good athletes if they're so inclined. That's a generalization. But not one that's gonna have someone scream racist at you.

@pumpkin-eater said:

Only derogatory, I would have thought? Like 'white people are more likely to have ginger hair' isn't racist.

@logicisforsquares said:

I get where he was trying to go but it is all in the phrasing. I would also probably pump the brakes on the "they are terrorized by the cops" angle. I have had the misfortune of being in some pretty heinous neighborhoods and cops are nonexistent or actively trying to avoid helping you. It may be a different thing all together elsewhere but NJ ghettos are more or less anarchy.

He didn't do the best job with the wording, but i think he's just trying to say many black Americans still deal with racism in some form. For poor blacks, that could be police abuse (in many forms), which we've seen.

Of course this slights the struggle some poor people from other races have.

And I'm not trying to get all "check your privilege" with it either. Just being realistic