Colbert King: America's black billionaires have no place in a Bernie Sanders world

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Don’t quite know how to break the news to Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Robert F. Smith, David Steward and Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z. But if Bernie Sanders makes it to the White House, they had better pack their bags and head for the hills.

That’s because Winfrey, Jordan, Smith, Steward and Jay-Z, the five richest black people in America, are among the 607 Americans who landed on Forbes’s annual billionaires list.

The very thought of that list seems to sicken Sanders. “There should be no billionaires,” he flatly declared in a tweet last fall. Sanders said he wants to be rid of them because “we cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families of this country for 45 years.”

I am not personally acquainted with Winfrey, Jordan, Smith, Steward or Jay-Z. I am aware of their prominence in the world of the wealthy. I’m sure they are just as flawed as the rest of humanity. It never occurred to me, however, to think of them as greedy, corrupt threats to America’s working families or the cause of economic disparities and human misery.

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[TwilightZone]

1. Blanket statements make for good soundbites, but they're rarely accurate.

The "all billionaires are the same" argument is particularly silly. I don't see Michael Jordan or Oprah Winfrey as equivalent to Donald Trump. Neither are Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.

[TwilightZone]

3. I was going to include him...

but I grew tired of explaining the differences a while back, including his $6.5 billion to charity and helping to flip the House in 2018.

[Cha]

4. KR

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6. Sanders used to say,"There should be no millionaires and billionaires"...

until he became a millionaire.

What's up with that?