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2016 Postmortem

AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts) Thu Feb 11, 2016, 12:31 PM Feb 2016

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"Let's not keep putting poor people into jail, and disproportionately punishing blacks"

This video from 1991 proves how passionate Bernie would be on issues that affect low income african american communities, including fighting against the War on Drugs.

And yes it is old but we all know how consistent Bernie has been. A recent video on the war on drugs:

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"Let's not keep putting poor people into jail, and disproportionately punishing blacks" (Original Post) AZ Progressive Feb 2016 OP

K&R amborin Feb 2016 #1

NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BERNIE !! TIMING IS OFF !! Hiraeth Feb 2016 #2

Are we supposed to give him props for saying something he SHOULD be saying? tia uponit7771 Feb 2016 #3

amborin

(16,631 posts)

1. K&R

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Thu Feb 11, 2016, 02:13 PM

Feb 2016

Hiraeth

(4,805 posts)

2. NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BERNIE !! TIMING IS OFF !!

Reply to AZ Progressive (Original post)

Thu Feb 11, 2016, 02:14 PM

Feb 2016

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

3. Are we supposed to give him props for saying something he SHOULD be saying? tia

Reply to AZ Progressive (Original post)

Thu Feb 11, 2016, 02:15 PM

Feb 2016

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