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Martin Luther King

“You Don’t Know What It’s Like to be Poor”

March 16, 2016 by Penny 14 Comments

Last week, it was the Democratic sound bite heard round the Internet – or at least, my private Facebook feed: “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.” Bernie Sanders’ comment on institutional racism and systemic poverty eviscerated the … [Read more…]

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