What exactly was said by Bernie Sanders about white people and poverty?

"When you’re white you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you walk down the street, or dragged out of a car." Sanders

Unfortunately a lot of white people know exactly what it's like and that Bernie was lying to get the black vote.

Exact quote (in response to a question about "what are your racial blind spots?"):

"When you are white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor, you don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you are walking down a street or dragged out of a car. We must be firm in making it clear that we will end institutional racism and reform a broken criminal justice system."

It wasn't very well phrased, for sure...there are certainly poor white people. Obviously.

But he's making a point that as a *group*, black people in America face more hardships than white people. He just didn't state it very clearly.

"When you are white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor, you don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you are walking down a street or dragged out of a car."

I don't know how to sugar coat this. He may have stated this poorly, but he stated it poorly in a very specific way, one that betrays a sense of what White Liberals think that Black people want to hear. If anything, it shows that he lives in kind of a white-person bubble in rural New England, surrounded by a state population that is > 90% white.

I was down to fifty cents with no job and no savings. I have picked food out of a trash can. I know what it's like to be poor. Perhaps Sanders is part of the Liberal Elite crowd.

He said if you're white, you don't know what it's like living in a ghetto or to be hassled walking down the street (along with a couple of other asinine remarks that I don't remember).

Except for the many homeless disabled who fall through the cracks in the system, most Americans don't know what it's like to be poor. Thank God.

He's retarded.