Before Donald Trump broke the Internet by calling for a ban on Muslim immigration, America’s great moral dilemma was what to do with 10,000 Syrian refugees waiting to enter the United States.
You might remember that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who provided safe spaces for participants in the great #BaltimoreUprising of 2015 to vent their frustrations, offered to welcome the refugees to her city, where many observers noted they’d feel right at home among the rubble.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dropped by West Baltimore today for a look at the neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested by six police officers who now face trial for his murder.
@BernieSanders stopped passed Gilmor Homes for a hot second this morning :: #Baltimore :: #imagelogger :: #DVNLLN pic.twitter.com/qBA72sc9CF
— Devin | Allen (@byDVNLLN) December 8, 2015
Baltimore Sun reporter John Fritze covered the event and noted that Sanders, who famously surrendered his campaign stop in Seattle to #BlackLivesMatters protesters who hijacked the podium, told a group of black pastors, “It is very expensive to be poor,” adding, “I didn’t see a decent grocery store around here. So what are moms feeding their kids?”
While we wouldn’t call CVS a decent grocery store, the reason Sanders didn’t see it is because it was looted and torched during the #BaltimoreUprising.
While Sanders’ concern was touching, we have to wonder how well his statement to reporters would have gone over were he a Republican.
"Anyone who took the walk that we took…would think that you were in a 3rd-world country," @SenSanders says of Sandtown-Winchester.
— John Fritze (@jfritze) December 8, 2015
@jfritze @baltimoresun @SenSanders If a Republican said that it wud be considered bigotry. Funny how that works.
— Stan Modjesky (@SModjesky) December 8, 2015
Yep.
@jfritze @baltimoresun @SenSanders How do city leaders think it's okay to have citizens living in such conditions?Keep going West, shocking.
— Laura Reagan, LCSW-C (@lauralcswc) December 8, 2015
What party do those city leaders belong to again?
@jfritze @iduncan @SenSanders how are city leaders responsible for people destroying their own neighborhoods?
— Jacques Cousteau (@hrd2believe10) December 8, 2015
@jfritze @iduncan @SenSanders government provide money for people to live. How they choose to maintain that environment is on them.
— Jacques Cousteau (@hrd2believe10) December 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/Orioles1975/status/674291472859025408
Bernie Sanders likens West Baltimore poverty to 'Third World' country https://t.co/dVWJwIKBrX
— deray (@deray) December 8, 2015
@deray What's your take on that?
— Progressive Chik (@ProgChik) December 8, 2015
@ProgChik @deray let's see… which political party has led the city and for how long… and Detroit too? hmmmmmmmm
— s. carrol (@scarroIl) December 8, 2015
@deray Your highness should have loyal subjects interrupt his next speech and tell him how offensive that statement is
— White Privilege (@WhitePrivilege8) December 8, 2015
And risk not being invited by President Sanders to next year’s White House holiday party?
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