2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What does this mean? I am not feeling this at all! [View all]Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)in the black community. Which is what Bernie said and you would know if the OP had been wise enough to provide the full quote.
Absolutely," he said in response to a question from the moderator. "Because what we will do is instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, we are going to create millions of jobs for low-income kids so theyre not hanging out on street corners. Were going to make sure those kids stay in school are able to get a college education."
"So when you have childhood African American poverty rates of 35 percent, when you have youth unemployment at 51 percent, when you have unbelievable rates of incarceration which by the way leaves the children back at home without a dad our even a mother, clearly we are looking at institutional racism," he said. "We are looking at an economy in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And sadly in America today, in our economy, a whole lot of those people are African American."
We also are smart enough to read the dozens of sociological studies that have revealed that poverty and racism are indeed linked.
Fortunately, one of our more engaging and intelligent DUers provided a link to the above information. (Warning, it is quite a bit longer than the truncated quote provided by the OP.)
POVERTY AND RACISM INEXTRICABLY LINKED, SAYS UN EXPERT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511221589