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Published 9 years ago by Triseult with 1 Comments
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9 years ago 1

Bernie Sanders Can't Save Black People

Sanders may be the least-bad candidate for everyone who holds to some progressive concern, and the candidate who best represents a chance of getting racial injustice talked about in Democratic debate; but he still falls short. And whether or not he does, he shouldn’t be immune from critique.

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  • Fuyu
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    I, and other people, too, tend to believe that racial injustice is different from economic injustice; that black Americans are poor because of racism, more than that racism is the result of black Americans being poor;

    I'm going to need some hardcore evidence to back that up, because that's a really bold claim.

    Also all this guy's talk of the system being "racist" just makes me think of Affirmative Action, a truly racist policy no black person really wants to talk about.

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