Bernie Sanders teaming up Public Enemy March 1st in LA

[Professor Emeritus]

They are all they same. The same people that said they ride for Bernie, were the same ones who voted for Trump.

They calculated that 1-2 million Bernie Sanders voters also voted for Trump. A lot of those were likely Republicans who just voted for Bernie in open primaries to fukk with Clinton. But do you know how many Obama voters also voted for Trump?

8-9 million of Obama's 2012 voters pulled the lever for Trump in 2016


5-10% of everyone's voting base is fukking stupid. What do you think that proves?

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Would you prefer I said, "Since 1965, when he was arrested protesting on Black people's behalf during the Civil Rights Movment"?

Or, "Since 1972, when he produced a video saying that the American Government did not give a shyt (his words) about the condition of Black people"?

Or, "Since 1988, when he caught a blow to the face during the campaign convention because had endorsed and campaigned for Jesse Jackson for president"?

Or, "Since 1991, when he declared that the 1991 Crime Bill would lead to disproportionate incarceration of black folk and it needed to be bushed"?

He's been talking about disproportionate incarcerate, police brutality against black folk, and the black-white wealth gap for 40 years. You really wanna push the low-ed TLR view that Bernie suddenly discovered Black inequality in 2016?


I can go back damn near 60 years if you really want.



The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders

1. News

Bernie Sanders campaign responds to 1972 comments about ‘sensitive’ George Wallace
Updated Jan 30, 2020; Posted Jan 30, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks with reporters following a forum broadcast on radio in a New Hampshire Public Radio station, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
By Leada Gore | lgore@al.com

A decades-old article in which Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, seemingly praised Alabama’s controversial segregationist governor George Wallace is making the rounds online.

The 1972 article in the Brattleboro Reformer was written when Sanders was a 31-year-old candidate running for governor of Vermont as a member of the Liberty Union party. Sanders finished in third place in the race.

“Politicians put people to sleep,” Sanders said before offering praise for Wallace. “(Wallace) advocates some outrageous approaches to our problems but at least he is sensitive to what people feel they need.”

Sanders’ comments came less than a decade after Wallace’s infamous stand in the courthouse door, where he attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. In 1972, Wallace was in his second of four terms as Alabama’s governor.

Sanders is now a Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential race. In response to the Wallace comments, Sanders’ campaign points to a May 2019 deep-dive on the candidate by CNN. The profile includes comments Sanders made in 1972 after interviewing Wallace supporters and comparing the atmosphere to that in Nazi Germany.

“I came away from these Wallace interviews with two basic feelings. First, that democracy in America (in any sense of the word) just might not make it," Sanders wrote at the time. “My mind flashed to scenes of Germany in the late 1920′s. Confusion, rebellion, frustration, economic instability, a wounded national pride, ineffectual political leadership - and the desire for a strong man who would do something, who would bring order out of the chaos.”


“Almost 50 years ago, Bernie Sanders compared George Wallace to Hitler. Throughout his entire life, he’s warned about demagogues like Wallace and Donald Trump using hate and fear to divide people up. The fact that Sen. Sanders has recognized this for decades shows that he’s the best candidate to take on Trump.”

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The only way Bernie can connect with Black people is to bring rappers around.

Bernie said fukk tangibles for you nikkas, I brought something better, here is Chuck D and Flava Flav

I mean, you could have just said, "I know nothing about Bernie's platform, what is it?" but you have to come with dumb shyt instead.


Here is what he is proposing by way of tangibles:


Bernie Sanders on Racial Justice

Our campaign is fundamentally dedicated to ending the disparity of wealth, income and power in this country. It’s time to bring a systemic approach to systemic racism. Structural problems require structural solutions, and together we can meet that challenge.

Systemic inequities have created innumerable disparities across racial groups from health outcomes, to health insurance rates, education outcomes, college debt rates, and police violence. Bernie is running for president because he believes we’re obligated to do more than just acknowledge the problem. He believes in implementing policies that aim to achieve substantive equality now—while the generations alive today can benefit. In a country that is genuinely free, neither one's zip code nor the color of their skin would determine a child’s life outcome. Bernie believes our country is morally bound to close the racial wealth divide.

Key Points

• Address the five central types of violence waged against black, brown and indigenous Americans: physical, political, legal, economic and environmental.
• Address a broken criminal justice system, massive disparities in the availability of financial services, health disparities, environmental disparities, and educational disparities.
• Create a nation in which all people are treated equally.

His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination against black folk that still persist
2. Federal job guarantee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other college costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End racial discrimination in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
12. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal for distressed communities.
13. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)




More Receipts:

Racial Justice

Economic Justice

Black Americans currently have ten cents for every dollar white Americans have. Latinx Americans currently have thirteen cents for every dollar white Americans have. This is unacceptable: It’s time for America to treat the lives of people of color like they’re worth more than change on the dollar.

More than 22% of black Americans and more than 21% of Hispanic Americans are living in poverty compared to 12% of white Americans.

Today redlining prevents businesses owned by people of color from getting loans, and predatory lending results in higher interest rates in low-income communities of color. More than 47% of African Americans are unbanked or underbanked and some 43% of Hispanic families are unbanked or underbanked, whereas 18% of whites are unbanked or underbanked. The massive disparities and discrimination in the availability of financial services must end.

Our campaign is fundamentally dedicated to ending the disparity of wealth, income and power in this country. It’s time to bring a systemic approach to systemic racism. Structural problems require structural solutions, and together we can meet that challenge.

Systemic inequities have created innumerable disparities across racial groups from health outcomes, to health insurance rates, education outcomes, college debt rates, and police violence. Bernie is running for president because he believes we’re obligated to do more than just acknowledge the problem. He believes in implementing policies that aim to achieve substantive equality now—while the generations alive today can benefit. In a country that is genuinely free, neither one's zip code nor the color of their skin would determine a child’s life outcome. Bernie believes our country is morally bound to close the racial wealth divide. In order to do that, we must ensure that people:

• Start treating the racial wealth divide like the crisis it is. We must end the especially pernicious racial wealth divide that exists today in America within the gap between millionaires and the poor, working, and middle classes of all races.
• Guarantee a job to every American. A job guarantee will create good-paying jobs and will create work building much needed infrastructure and providing critical services to communities across the country.
• End redlining practices and other forms of housing discrimination that still exist.
• Make sure every kid, regardless of race or class, receives a quality education.
• End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership.
• Make sure resources are focused on the Americans who need it most -- often as a result of structural disadvantage. Bernie supports the 10-20-30 approach to federal investments which focuses substantial federal resources on distressed communities that have high levels of poverty.
• Support public colleges and HBCUs. We must make public colleges, universities and trade schools, tuition-free—including for the 76% of HBCU students who attend public colleges—and increase public funding for all HBCUs.
• Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Black and Latinx workers disproportionately work minimum wage jobs. Raising the minimum wage will increase the wages of 38% of African-American workers and 33% of Latinx workers.
• End the discriminatory practices in our financial services. We must allow every post office to offer basic and affordable banking services and end lending discrimination once and for all.

Or here: Bernie Sanders on Black Rights

BERNIE SANDERS ON BLACK RIGHTS
“Have we made progress in civil rights in this country? No question. But do we still have a very long way to go to end the institutional racism which permeates almost every aspect of our society? Absolutely. Together, we are going to put an end to that.” – Bernie Sanders, April 9, 2019

Bernie Sanders has a long history of fighting for social equality and the rights of black Americans — a record that goes back to the early 1960s. In college, he was a student leader of the Congress of Racial Equality and was arrested for protesting institutional segregation. His views were cemented in 1963 when he marched on Washington and witnessed Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pivotal “I have a dream” speech.

In Congress, Bernie opposed the 1991 crime bill that he believed would disproportionately punish people of color — especially African Americans. Bernie’s civil rights record has earned him one of the highest scores given to a U.S. Senator and a 100 percent score from the NAACP.

Bernie Sanders is committed to ending racial disparities. He often refers to these disparities as the “disparity within the disparity.” Bernie understands that slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, predatory lending, redlining, and other factors have led to racial economic disparities and a theft of wealth from African Americans.

Education: Education isn’t a privilege — it’s a right. Everyone deserves access to affordable, quality education, including universal pre-K and college, and we need to increase access to it for people of color to provide greater economic opportunities.

Crime & Social Justice: The U.S. has the highest prison population rate in the developed world, with a distressingly disproportionate number of black inmates behind bars and many for drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Our criminal justice system is broken and must be reformed to provide opportunity instead of incarceration.

Income Equality & The Racial Wealth Gap: Economic justice is tied to racial justice. Black youth unemployment is at 51 percent, higher than any other demographic. We need a federal jobs program to put the unemployed — including black youth and adults alike — to work, and we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Moreover, we need tax reform so corporations and billionaires pay their fair share and fund the expansion of the social safety net. Additionally, we must repair the racial wealth gap and end the institutional racism in the financial services industry such as redlining.

Infant Mortality Rate of Black Children & Death Rate of Black Mothers: We must identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.

Reparations: Many black Americans are still experiencing social and economic disadvantages as a result slavery in America. Bernie supports establishing a commission to study and research reparations for American descendants of slaves as well as investing resources into distressed communities.

Note: As is the nature of this project, this page highlights Bernie’s views and record on issues affecting black Americans. For more detailed information, check out the comprehensive racial justice plan Bernie released as part of his 2020 platform.

Reparations

Although the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, American descendants of slavery still face social and economic inequalities as a direct result of the legacy of slavery. One of those inequalities is the racial wealth gap. The median white household is ten times more wealthy than the median black household.

How does Bernie plan to address lasting inequalities from the legacy of slavery?
Bernie supports two policy proposals to address these inequalities. At a CNN Town Hall, Bernie expressed support for Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal.

Clyburn’s proposal would make sure that at least 10% of Rural Development investments would go to communities in persistent poverty. These communities are those where at least 20% of the population has lived below the poverty line for the past 30 years or longer.

Bernie also supports H.R.40, a bill that would create a commission to study reparations for American descendants of slaves and make recommendations to Congress for appropriate remedies.

Has the United States paid reparations to other disenfranchised groups?
Yes, the United States government has paid reparation to other disenfranchised groups before. Japanese Americans have been paid reparations for being sent to interment camps during World War Two. Victims of the Holocaust have also received reparations from the United States government.

And there's much more on that page as well.

Environmental Justice

The ills of pollution and climate change touch everyone, but tragically, they touch those in poverty more than others. Trump’s own EPA has shown that people living in poverty are exposed to more harmful particulate matter in the air, and that people of color are more likely to live near pollution and be exposed to pollutants. According to the EPA report, “results at national, state, and county scales all indicate that non-Whites tend to be burdened disproportionately to Whites.” This, too, is unacceptable.

Today, Flint, Michigan, is still without new pipes for clean water, and there are 3,000 other Flint, Michigans, across the country—neighborhoods with lead rates that were double those of Flint during the height of its crisis. Together, we must:

• Enact a Green New Deal not just to save the planet, but to protect our most vulnerable communities. We must end the scourge of environmental racism, and at the same time create green jobs to support and rebuild the local economies of affected communities.
• Protect low-income and minority communities, who are hit first and worst by the causes and impacts of climate change, while also protecting existing energy-sector workers as they transition into clean energy and other jobs.
• Address the inadequate environmental cleanup efforts of Superfund hazardous waste sites in communities of color.
• Stop the exposure of people of color to harmful chemicals, pesticides and other toxins in homes, schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces and challenge faulty assumptions in calculating, assessing, and managing risks, discriminatory zoning and land-use practices and exclusionary policies.
• Enact a Green New Deal to mitigate climate change and focus on building resilience in low-income and minority communities.

That's a shytload of receipts and some really far-reaching policies for someone who supposedly says, "fukk the tangibles."

 

[Professor Emeritus]

1. News

Bernie Sanders campaign responds to 1972 comments about ‘sensitive’ George Wallace
Updated Jan 30, 2020; Posted Jan 30, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks with reporters following a forum broadcast on radio in a New Hampshire Public Radio station, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
By Leada Gore | lgore@al.com

A decades-old article in which Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, seemingly praised Alabama’s controversial segregationist governor George Wallace is making the rounds online.

The 1972 article in the Brattleboro Reformer was written when Sanders was a 31-year-old candidate running for governor of Vermont as a member of the Liberty Union party. Sanders finished in third place in the race.

“Politicians put people to sleep,” Sanders said before offering praise for Wallace. “(Wallace) advocates some outrageous approaches to our problems but at least he is sensitive to what people feel they need.”

Sanders’ comments came less than a decade after Wallace’s infamous stand in the courthouse door, where he attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. In 1972, Wallace was in his second of four terms as Alabama’s governor.

Sanders is now a Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential race. In response to the Wallace comments, Sanders’ campaign points to a May 2019 deep-dive on the candidate by CNN. The profile includes comments Sanders made in 1972 after interviewing Wallace supporters and comparing the atmosphere to that in Nazi Germany.

“I came away from these Wallace interviews with two basic feelings. First, that democracy in America (in any sense of the word) just might not make it," Sanders wrote at the time. “My mind flashed to scenes of Germany in the late 1920′s. Confusion, rebellion, frustration, economic instability, a wounded national pride, ineffectual political leadership - and the desire for a strong man who would do something, who would bring order out of the chaos.”

“Almost 50 years ago, Bernie Sanders compared George Wallace to Hitler. Throughout his entire life, he’s warned about demagogues like Wallace and Donald Trump using hate and fear to divide people up. The fact that Sen. Sanders has recognized this for decades shows that he’s the best candidate to take on Trump.”

You quote the right story breh? Bernie compared George Wallace to fukking Hitler. You see that as a negative?


TLR gotta be the worst subforum for political takes on this site.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

I mean, you could have just said, "I know nothing about Bernie's platform, what is it?" but you have to come with dumb shyt instead.


Here is what he is proposing by way of tangibles:


Bernie Sanders on Racial Justice




His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination against black folk that still persist
2. Federal job guarantee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other college costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End racial discrimination in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
12. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal for distressed communities.
13. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)




More Receipts:

Racial Justice



Or here: Bernie Sanders on Black Rights




And there's much more on that page as well.

Spoiler

That's a shytload of receipts and some really far-reaching policies for someone who supposedly says, "fukk the tangibles."

Blah Blah Blah


Same bullshyt......Money to HBCU'S, Govt. Jobs....Blah Blah

Bernie Sanders supported George Wallace, a famous White Supremacist Governor from Alabama

 

[Bunchy Carter]

You quote the right story breh? Bernie compared George Wallace to fukking Hitler. You see that as a negative?


TLR gotta be the worst subforum for political takes on this site.

Her compared him to Hitler after he gave him praise.

Read the article....Bernie first gave George Wallce praise lol....

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Blah Blah Blah


Same bullshyt......Money to HBCU'S, Govt. Jobs....Blah Blah

Bernie Sanders supported George Wallace, a famous White Supremacist Governor from Alabama

t
You think it's the same bullshyt when the DNC themselves think it's so radical they're trying to do everything to stop him.


And no he didn't support George Wallace. You have to be fukking retarded. Your OWN STORY quoted him calling George Wallace a Nazi.


Bernie was literally getting arrested protesting segregation, and you're trying to make up a story that Bernie was pro-segregation?

 

[Bunchy Carter]

t
You think it's the same bullshyt when the DNC themselves think it's so radical they're trying to do everything to stop him.


And no he didn't support George Wallace. You have to be fukking retarded. Your OWN STORY quoted him calling George Wallace a Nazi.


Bernie was literally getting arrested protesting segregation, and you're trying to make up a story that Bernie was pro-segregation?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Her compared him to Hitler after he gave him praise.

Read the article....Bernie first gave George Wallce praise lol....

Breh, you GOT to have better reading comprehension than that. He said that George Wallace was sensitive to people's needs and worries and then exploited them in horrific ways, just like Hitler did.

And what you got out of that is, "Bernie Sanders supported George Wallace."


Come on now.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Breh, you GOT to have better reading comprehension than that. He said that George Wallace was sensitive to people's needs and worries and then exploited them in horrific ways, just like Hitler did.

And what you got out of that is, "Bernie Sanders supported George Wallace."


Come on now.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

t
You think it's the same bullshyt when the DNC themselves think it's so radical they're trying to do everything to stop him.


And no he didn't support George Wallace. You have to be fukking retarded. Your OWN STORY quoted him calling George Wallace a Nazi.


Bernie was literally getting arrested protesting segregation, and you're trying to make up a story that Bernie was pro-segregation?

POLITICS
Bernie Sanders Says Not All Voters Who Feel 'Uncomfortable' With Black Candidates Are Racist
The senator got flak after saying white people who didn’t vote for Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams because of their race are “not necessarily racist.”
By Antonia Blumberg
11/08/2018 04:25 PM ET
|
Updated Nov 08, 2018


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) drew criticism Thursday after saying many white voters in the South who felt “uncomfortable” voting for black candidates for the first time were “not necessarily racist.


via: HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Oh, you get your political hot takes from Tariq Elite.

Tariq praised Trump. By your logic, doesn't that make him a Trump supporter?

I quoted this already once. Here is what Bernie is proposing in way of tangibles. I list 14 points. Do you agree with each of those points or do you think they'll be bad things?

His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination against black folk that still persist
2. Federal job guarantee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other college costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End racial discrimination in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Provide quality health care for all Americans
12. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
13. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal for distressed communities.
14. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)




Bernie Sanders on Racial Justice

Our campaign is fundamentally dedicated to ending the disparity of wealth, income and power in this country. It’s time to bring a systemic approach to systemic racism. Structural problems require structural solutions, and together we can meet that challenge.

Systemic inequities have created innumerable disparities across racial groups from health outcomes, to health insurance rates, education outcomes, college debt rates, and police violence. Bernie is running for president because he believes we’re obligated to do more than just acknowledge the problem. He believes in implementing policies that aim to achieve substantive equality now—while the generations alive today can benefit. In a country that is genuinely free, neither one's zip code nor the color of their skin would determine a child’s life outcome. Bernie believes our country is morally bound to close the racial wealth divide.

Key Points

• Address the five central types of violence waged against black, brown and indigenous Americans: physical, political, legal, economic and environmental.
• Address a broken criminal justice system, massive disparities in the availability of financial services, health disparities, environmental disparities, and educational disparities.
• Create a nation in which all people are treated equally.

More Receipts:

Racial Justice

Economic Justice

Black Americans currently have ten cents for every dollar white Americans have. Latinx Americans currently have thirteen cents for every dollar white Americans have. This is unacceptable: It’s time for America to treat the lives of people of color like they’re worth more than change on the dollar.

More than 22% of black Americans and more than 21% of Hispanic Americans are living in poverty compared to 12% of white Americans.

Today redlining prevents businesses owned by people of color from getting loans, and predatory lending results in higher interest rates in low-income communities of color. More than 47% of African Americans are unbanked or underbanked and some 43% of Hispanic families are unbanked or underbanked, whereas 18% of whites are unbanked or underbanked. The massive disparities and discrimination in the availability of financial services must end.

Our campaign is fundamentally dedicated to ending the disparity of wealth, income and power in this country. It’s time to bring a systemic approach to systemic racism. Structural problems require structural solutions, and together we can meet that challenge.

Systemic inequities have created innumerable disparities across racial groups from health outcomes, to health insurance rates, education outcomes, college debt rates, and police violence. Bernie is running for president because he believes we’re obligated to do more than just acknowledge the problem. He believes in implementing policies that aim to achieve substantive equality now—while the generations alive today can benefit. In a country that is genuinely free, neither one's zip code nor the color of their skin would determine a child’s life outcome. Bernie believes our country is morally bound to close the racial wealth divide. In order to do that, we must ensure that people:

• Start treating the racial wealth divide like the crisis it is. We must end the especially pernicious racial wealth divide that exists today in America within the gap between millionaires and the poor, working, and middle classes of all races.
• Guarantee a job to every American. A job guarantee will create good-paying jobs and will create work building much needed infrastructure and providing critical services to communities across the country.
• End redlining practices and other forms of housing discrimination that still exist.
• Make sure every kid, regardless of race or class, receives a quality education.
• End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership.
• Make sure resources are focused on the Americans who need it most -- often as a result of structural disadvantage. Bernie supports the 10-20-30 approach to federal investments which focuses substantial federal resources on distressed communities that have high levels of poverty.
• Support public colleges and HBCUs. We must make public colleges, universities and trade schools, tuition-free—including for the 76% of HBCU students who attend public colleges—and increase public funding for all HBCUs.
• Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Black and Latinx workers disproportionately work minimum wage jobs. Raising the minimum wage will increase the wages of 38% of African-American workers and 33% of Latinx workers.
• End the discriminatory practices in our financial services. We must allow every post office to offer basic and affordable banking services and end lending discrimination once and for all.

Or here: Bernie Sanders on Black Rights

BERNIE SANDERS ON BLACK RIGHTS
“Have we made progress in civil rights in this country? No question. But do we still have a very long way to go to end the institutional racism which permeates almost every aspect of our society? Absolutely. Together, we are going to put an end to that.” – Bernie Sanders, April 9, 2019

Bernie Sanders has a long history of fighting for social equality and the rights of black Americans — a record that goes back to the early 1960s. In college, he was a student leader of the Congress of Racial Equality and was arrested for protesting institutional segregation. His views were cemented in 1963 when he marched on Washington and witnessed Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pivotal “I have a dream” speech.

In Congress, Bernie opposed the 1991 crime bill that he believed would disproportionately punish people of color — especially African Americans. Bernie’s civil rights record has earned him one of the highest scores given to a U.S. Senator and a 100 percent score from the NAACP.

Bernie Sanders is committed to ending racial disparities. He often refers to these disparities as the “disparity within the disparity.” Bernie understands that slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, predatory lending, redlining, and other factors have led to racial economic disparities and a theft of wealth from African Americans.

Education: Education isn’t a privilege — it’s a right. Everyone deserves access to affordable, quality education, including universal pre-K and college, and we need to increase access to it for people of color to provide greater economic opportunities.

Crime & Social Justice: The U.S. has the highest prison population rate in the developed world, with a distressingly disproportionate number of black inmates behind bars and many for drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Our criminal justice system is broken and must be reformed to provide opportunity instead of incarceration.

Income Equality & The Racial Wealth Gap: Economic justice is tied to racial justice. Black youth unemployment is at 51 percent, higher than any other demographic. We need a federal jobs program to put the unemployed — including black youth and adults alike — to work, and we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Moreover, we need tax reform so corporations and billionaires pay their fair share and fund the expansion of the social safety net. Additionally, we must repair the racial wealth gap and end the institutional racism in the financial services industry such as redlining.

Infant Mortality Rate of Black Children & Death Rate of Black Mothers: We must identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.

Reparations: Many black Americans are still experiencing social and economic disadvantages as a result slavery in America. Bernie supports establishing a commission to study and research reparations for American descendants of slaves as well as investing resources into distressed communities.

Note: As is the nature of this project, this page highlights Bernie’s views and record on issues affecting black Americans. For more detailed information, check out the comprehensive racial justice plan Bernie released as part of his 2020 platform.

Reparations

Although the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, American descendants of slavery still face social and economic inequalities as a direct result of the legacy of slavery. One of those inequalities is the racial wealth gap. The median white household is ten times more wealthy than the median black household.

How does Bernie plan to address lasting inequalities from the legacy of slavery?
Bernie supports two policy proposals to address these inequalities. At a CNN Town Hall, Bernie expressed support for Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal.

Clyburn’s proposal would make sure that at least 10% of Rural Development investments would go to communities in persistent poverty. These communities are those where at least 20% of the population has lived below the poverty line for the past 30 years or longer.

Bernie also supports H.R.40, a bill that would create a commission to study reparations for American descendants of slaves and make recommendations to Congress for appropriate remedies.

Has the United States paid reparations to other disenfranchised groups?
Yes, the United States government has paid reparation to other disenfranchised groups before. Japanese Americans have been paid reparations for being sent to interment camps during World War Two. Victims of the Holocaust have also received reparations from the United States government.

And there's much more on that page as well.

Environmental Justice

The ills of pollution and climate change touch everyone, but tragically, they touch those in poverty more than others. Trump’s own EPA has shown that people living in poverty are exposed to more harmful particulate matter in the air, and that people of color are more likely to live near pollution and be exposed to pollutants. According to the EPA report, “results at national, state, and county scales all indicate that non-Whites tend to be burdened disproportionately to Whites.” This, too, is unacceptable.

Today, Flint, Michigan, is still without new pipes for clean water, and there are 3,000 other Flint, Michigans, across the country—neighborhoods with lead rates that were double those of Flint during the height of its crisis. Together, we must:

• Enact a Green New Deal not just to save the planet, but to protect our most vulnerable communities. We must end the scourge of environmental racism, and at the same time create green jobs to support and rebuild the local economies of affected communities.
• Protect low-income and minority communities, who are hit first and worst by the causes and impacts of climate change, while also protecting existing energy-sector workers as they transition into clean energy and other jobs.
• Address the inadequate environmental cleanup efforts of Superfund hazardous waste sites in communities of color.
• Stop the exposure of people of color to harmful chemicals, pesticides and other toxins in homes, schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces and challenge faulty assumptions in calculating, assessing, and managing risks, discriminatory zoning and land-use practices and exclusionary policies.
• Enact a Green New Deal to mitigate climate change and focus on building resilience in low-income and minority communities.

Reparations is supported by 29% of American people. To pass reparations, you need to get a bill through the House AND the Senate AND have it signed by the president. Any president who runs on reparations would be immediately unelectable, so going in 100% on reparations in your campaign would just be virtue signaling. Is that what you're rolling with, you want to reject those 14 things I mentioned (14 points which neither Obama nor any other president has accomplished and in most cases didn't even suggest), in favor of virtue signalling?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Aside from the fact that his policies benefit black people the most, he has the trust of his supporters, black ones in particular because he has a proven track record of being down with civil rights and social justice moments before it was popular to do. When some of the other leading candidates were either republicans or worried about their children having to grow up an a desegregated "racial jungle" he was active in the civil rights movement and trying to get Jesse Jackson elected.




Anybody valuing Steyer's or anyone else's 'black' rhetoric over that is proving to democrats that they really want to be pandered to and pat on the head more than they actually want shyt to change.

He's been talking about mass incarceration and the black-white wealth gap for 50 years, not even mentioning getting arrested during the CRA and endorsing Jesse Jackson and shyt. What could he do that would prove to you he fukked with Black folk that wouldn't immediately render him unelectable in the actual vote?


Check out this interviewer trying to trap him on a busing question, Bernie hits back remembering his entire quote from 1972 and then schools the interviewer on Black issues. He's reeling that shyt off the top of his head, he clearly fukks with that agenda.



Or this ad. What other candidate would give a Black woman, especially one who was just an activist, this much time to share her story and what she's about? What other candidate would quote fukking MALCOLM X in a positive way in a campaign ad?

And in case anyone tries to claim those were one-off instances, you should listen to Nina Turner, his national campaign co-chair who has been working with him for five years and is on a lot of short lists for his VP pick.




And more examples:

@Bunchy Carter wants to reject all those receipts and will only support Bernie if he immediately makes himself unelectable by supporting reparations immediately and calling Florida voters racist.


And he still thinks the guy who literally got arrested protesting segregation was talking "pro-segregation" when he said that George Wallace was a governor who understood his voters and then exploited their fears like Hitler.


You still haven't answered my question about Bernie's policies. You claimed he had no tangibles, I listed 14, which of those 14 points do you reject and which do you think would be good ideas and should happen?

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Oh, you get your political hot takes from Tariq Elite.

Tariq praised Trump. By your logic, doesn't that make him a Trump supporter?

I quoted this already once. Here is what Bernie is proposing in way of tangibles. I list 14 points. Do you agree with each of those points or do you think they'll be bad things?

His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination against black folk that still persist
2. Federal job guarantee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other college costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End racial discrimination in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Provide quality health care for all Americans
12. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
13. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal for distressed communities.
14. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)




Bernie Sanders on Racial Justice





More Receipts:

Racial Justice



Or here: Bernie Sanders on Black Rights




And there's much more on that page as well.



Reparations is supported by 29% of American people. To pass reparations, you need to get a bill through the House AND the Senate AND have it signed by the president. Any president who runs on reparations would be immediately unelectable, so going in 100% on reparations in your campaign would just be virtue signaling. Is that what you're rolling with, you want to reject those 14 things I mentioned (14 points which neither Obama nor any other president has accomplished and in most cases didn't even suggest), in favor of virtue signalling?

That bullshyt is not just for Black Americans only, it is also going to help out other racial groups and ethnicities....

Black Americans are not the only ones who go to HBCU's....I know I graduated from one

You put down the Green New Deal Act, as something that is going to help Black Americans lol

I read minority everywhere, I do not see Black Americans

 

[Bunchy Carter]

@Bunchy Carter wants to reject all those receipts and will only support Bernie if he immediately makes himself unelectable by supporting reparations immediately and calling Florida voters racist.


And he still thinks the guy who literally got arrested protesting segregation was talking "pro-segregation" when he said that George Wallace was a governor who understood his voters and then exploited their fears like Hitler.


You still haven't answered my question about Bernie's policies. You claimed he had no tangibles, I listed 14, which of those 14 points do you reject and which do you think would be good ideas and should happen?

His specifics include:

1. End continued redlining and other forms of housing discrimination against black folk that still persist
2. Federal job guarantee
3. Ensure quality education for children across the board
4. Make tuition free for all students at public universities and HBCUs
5. Increase public funding for HBCUs
6. Cover all other college costs for students from families making under $25,000/year
7. End the affordable housing crisis and create a path to wealth building through homeownership
8. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage
9. End racial discrimination in the financial services sector
10. Protect minority communities from pollutant exposure like what happened to Flint
11. Provide quality health care for all Americans
12. Identify and fix the underlying causes that lead to a higher mortality rate among black children and black mothers.
13. Institute Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal for distressed communities.
14. Establish a commission to study and research reparations (H.R. 40)

That bullshyt is not just for Black Americans only, it is also going to help out other racial groups and ethnicities....

Black Americans are not the only ones who go to HBCU's....I know I graduated from one

You put down the Green New Deal Act, as something that is going to help Black Americans lol

I read minority everywhere, I do not see Black Americans