By Mary Margaret Olohan
A moderator reminded 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that a question was about race Thursday night at the Democratic debates.
Moderator and PBS broadcast journalist Amna Nawaz refocused the Vermont senator’s attention to race after Sanders attempted to steer her question toward climate change. Her question followed 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang pointing out that he was the only candidate of color on stage.
“I’ll answer that question, but I wanted to get back to the issue of climate change for a moment, because I do believe this is the existential issue,” Sanders told Nawaz.
“Senator, with all due respect, this question is about race,” Nawaz told Sanders firmly. “Can you answer the question as it was asked?”
Sanders responded by saying the topics are linked because “people of color, in fact, are going to be the people suffering most if we do not deal with climate change.”
“And by the way, we have an obligation up here, if there are not any of our African-American brothers and sisters up here, to speak about an economy in which African-Americans are exploited, where black women die three times at higher rates than white women, where we have a criminal justice system which is racist and broken, disproportionately made up of African-Americans and Latinos and Native Americans who are in jail,” Sanders added. “So we need an economy that focuses on the needs of oppressed, exploited people, and that is the African-American community.”
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The problem with Sanders in a Constitutional Republic is he is a worthless Communist,end of story.
“he is a worthless Communist”
And that’s a REAL existential threat to America….
Burnee’s Achilles heal is other races ’cause he’s a out and out
Racist…He says it out loud and none on the left hold him to account.
His climate saving idea of sterilization in Africa was a prime example,
and his teaming up with islamic terrorist against his own people *Jews* is another…The democat KKK has nothing on the burnster…
Again, it just goes to show Vermont’s Barking Buffoon and the other clowns,
yup, the circus was in town !!
And this haphazard attempt on trying to show their relevance, wow Trump is going to “chew and spit out” whatever sacrificial lamb the Democrats put g up for verbal slaughter. Oh well, and this is the cream of the crop.