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Originally Posted by dyna mo
he was trying to point to police racism and a broken criminal justice system's treatment of blacks, he concludes his answer with that summary. it wasn't necessarily about poor people.
his overall point is he wants to reform the for profit prison system and end institutionalized racism.
lofty goals, yes,but attainable and needed. i can understand how he might make some mistakes in a debate about such a complex and heavy topic.
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takes little brain power to come to the conclusion that a poor minority would have a much harder time than a poor majority. it's a difficult subject to discuss, especially when it can be perceived as trivializing what it's like to grow up poor, period.