"‘Ghetto’ gaffe highlights Bernie Sanders campaign’s struggle with race"
Sanders’ “ghetto” gaffe underlined a persistent problem that may have crippled his bid for the 2016 nomination. He has struggled to connect with black voters, and his choice of words has often undercut a populist economic message that might have resonated with people of color.
Even if Sanders had the best of intentions, it was not his best moment, as evidenced by one of his most prominent African-American surrogates — former NAACP chairman Ben Jealous — who told NBC News: “Sen. Sanders is from Burlington, he grew up in old Brooklyn, he knows white folks live in ghettos.”
On Monday, Sanders attempted to clarify his debate statement, telling a gaggle of reporters in Detroit: “What I meant to say, is when you talk about ghettos, traditionally what you’re talking about is African-American communities.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-ghetto-gaffe-highlights-campaigns-struggle-race
I had assumed he misspoke and that a clarification would be more comprehensive. I was wrong.
Perhaps Bernie should talk to me, a white person who grew up poor in a ghetto, or any number of our black members who are middle to upper-middle class?
= new reply since forum marked as read
notions that haven't been examined minutely in a very long time. Like so many of us. Now, here he is on a national stage with every statement witnessed by many millions. I'm not saying it's okay, they are revelations of his notions, but I suspect he doesn't like what these inappropriate statements are revealing and really would like to do better. If he had time.
Well, that's irrefutable. 
What did Sanders SAY...that was Dead Wrong?
"They want to politicize everything..."
I'd level that particular abrogation at the demographic simplistically implying that discussion of race in itself is playing the race card and engaging in race baiting, regardless of how you rationalize it as something other than what it is...
Zero moral compass, indeed.
are a plague on America. All in the same boat together. That's why the "Powers that Be" work so hard to pit both against each other with Racist Blather to Distract...to keep them from joining together to organize Unions to hit the Mainsteam Mead with facts refuting the "Wall Street Class" that wants to PROMOTE discord between Black & White American Workers competing for Jobs that Wall Street, Clinton, Obama and Bush/Reagan Offshored for years to China and Malaysia, Vietnam (that we had a war with that cost lives of my classmates) and now to ANYWHERE we CAN OUTSOURCE for PROFIT to keep the "People" angry at each other and "Praying to God" to "Save Them" in the Evangelical Churches.
The great DISINFO WARS designed to drive the Poor and Middle Class into the arms of the Trump/Cruz Revolution. And throw in the Clintons who never met a Trade Deal or Deregulation that they couldn't Justify Srewing the American Worker for ...with the help of Union Management that has given up so much for Decades AGAINST their Rank and File.
WAKE UP! No one is going to do better until ALL OF US HAVE A CHANCE TO SUCCEED! It isn't going to come from "Deregulation Clintons or Trump/Cruze.
"What I meant to say is when you talk about ghetto tradition, what you're talking about is African American communities..."
that have devastated whole families and communities Well done.
he addressed the disparity of living as a white person and living as a black person in the US. He told white people they have a privilege that people of color do not. Clearly the most important thing to come out of these statements is his use of the word ghetto which is a throwback to the civil rights days.
Whew - I thought for a minute there that this presidential race might include discussion of disparities in our society based on skin color but I was wrong. Let's get back to penis size and the real meaning of hand gestures while speaking.
Damn.