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Her Sister

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3. Vermont High % Blacks incarcerated!!!
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 10:40 AM
Apr 2016
Here's How Black People Actually Fare in Bernie Sanders' Home State

What does this mean? Black Vermonters make up just 1.2% of the state's general population, but 10.7% of its incarcerated population. Meaning that, proportionally, there are nearly 10 times more black people locked up in Vermont's jails and prisons on a given day than there are walking its streets.

Few in Vermont seem able to explain how this happened. The black incarceration rate grew faster than any other in the state between 1993 and 2007, before it leveled out and stayed relatively constant. But shortly before its peak, the Sentencing Project reported that Vermont had the second-highest black-to-white incarceration rate in America — topped only by Iowa, another state with a small black population.


http://mic.com/articles/124341/here-s-how-black-people-actually-fare-in-vermont-with-bernie-sanders-as-their-senator#.ykTd5i2Vd


Thanks HRC surrogates for speaking out!!

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It's offensive the way white progressives have acted towards black voters this Dem primary. CalvinballPro Apr 2016 #1
There's some Tweets below from an African American woman's thoughts on what BS is doing.. Cha Apr 2016 #5
very... sarae Apr 2016 #19
BS is a divider.. good summary of what Gregory Meeks said, eh? Cha Apr 2016 #2
"Sanders called for primary & elevated Black Obama-bashers as VIPs." CalvinballPro Apr 2016 #8
I couldn't believe he would be that ignorant to hook up with cornel west.. but, now Cha Apr 2016 #12
yes, lol... sarae Apr 2016 #10
Good job! Oh yeah the ol pause thing.. great! Cha Apr 2016 #13
very informative... sarae Apr 2016 #11
Vermont High % Blacks incarcerated!!! Her Sister Apr 2016 #3
why sarae Apr 2016 #15
Gawd I hate the deliberately devisive tactics pandr32 Apr 2016 #4
That's what I've been saying, pandr.. BS is a Divider.. there's some Tweets from an Cha Apr 2016 #6
I saw them, Cha pandr32 Apr 2016 #9
It would be shocking if we hadn't been shown for a quite what kind of person he is. Cha Apr 2016 #17
I can't wait for Rachel Maddow to blow him up pandr32 Apr 2016 #22
I saw the entire thing, including Carol Costello's raking of Devine over the coals, saying... George II Apr 2016 #7
I agree... sarae Apr 2016 #14
But lost in all this Sanders blame game blather is that neither Bill nor Hillary VOTED for the bill. George II Apr 2016 #18
yes! sarae Apr 2016 #20
The CBC is not happy with Bernie! Look for them to ask Bernie to drop out! leftofcool Apr 2016 #16
How could they be?!! bernie has made a trap for himself and fell right into it. Cha Apr 2016 #21
It took me a while to understand why white progressives are saying these things about black voters Lucinda Apr 2016 #23
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