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  • South Carolina.

  • Three weeks from tomorrow, they'll go to the polls to vote.

  • Black voters make up about 60% of the electorate there.

  • Senator Sanders Several weeks ago, Nina Turner, one of your national coach here's published an op ed piece that said, Vice President Biden has quote repeatedly betrayed black voters, decide with Republican lawmakers and undermine our progress.

  • Senator Sanders, Do you agree with her one of your most visible surrogates, that Vice President Biden has repeatedly betrayed black voters?

  • I think would.

  • Senator Turner was talking about a some of the early actions of Vice President Biden.

  • But no, Joe Biden is a friend of mine on, and I'm not here to attack him.

  • But what I would say is that what we need in terms off the African American community is to understand that we have got to start investing big time in education in health care.

  • There is no excuse why white families in America have 10 times more wealth than black families.

  • No excuse that disproportionately African Americans are in jail compared to whites.

  • No excuse for black women dying in childbirth three times the rate that a white women are doing this way, senator, you as you raise your hand.

  • Yes, I did, because I think in addition to the economic argument we're making here with the sad said stories of, ah, woman walking into a maternity room in New Orleans and seeing her hands are swollen and walking out without her baby on 30% of African American kids being living in poverty.

  • We know that there are economic solutions here to invest in those communities housing childcare.

  • But there's something else in city is going on that we haven't addressed.

  • And that is the systematic racism when it comes to voting that is, moves across the country to limit people's right to vote.

  • And that is why I have been leading on these bills toe automatically register every kid to vote in this country when they turn 18.

  • There is no reason that we can't do that across his country to stop thief Jerry Mannering by setting up independent commissions in every single state and, yes, to stop the voting purchase.

  • Because what is going on right now, in the words of one North Carolina court, is that they are discriminating with surgical precision against African American voters, and we are not going to be able to get any of these things done if we don't give people the right to vote.

  • Vice President Biden and I just wanted to give you a chance to respond.

  • I agree completely.

  • There should be registration, automatic registration, turning 18.

  • You get a driver's license.

  • Whatever you do, you automatically are registered number one number two.

  • With regard to what we're going to see in South Carolina, we're all gonna be there.

  • Pretty soon, we'll see whether or not it works.

  • The response to the letter that the person I'm not saying Bernie wrote the letter, but the senator wrote, the letter was very briskets and significant with other African Americans in South Carolina taking issue with her.

  • But look, Amy is right.

  • The senator's correct, that is, that we, in fact, there is systematic racism.

  • And that's why our Justice Department works so hard to go after those.

  • You realize there are 35 states the United States America that have come up with a total of 78 laws to restrict voting just in the last five years to try to keep African Americans from voting on brown as well.

  • Black and brown people from voting, and that will be an enormous priority, an argument and my administration as it wasn't ours.

  • It's just wrong, simply wrong.

  • Senator Warren.

  • You know, I'm glad to stand on this stage.

  • My fellow Democrats who talked about how important the black community is, at least in election time, year after year after year election after election after election, Democrats go to people in the black community and say, Boy, we really care about these issues.

  • Racism is terrible.

  • We all want to do something, and then somehow the problem just seems to keep getting worse.

  • Well, I think it's time we have really concrete plans that are going to make a difference in people's lives.

  • I proposed to two cent wealth tax and let me tell you, just one of the things we could do with the two cent wealth tax we can cancel Student lugged up for 43 million Americans and because African Americans have to borrow more money to go to college, borrow more money while they're in college and have a harder time paying it back when they get out, that one law is gonna help close the black quite wealth gap for people with student loans by about 20 points.

  • We are making a difference in America were saying to the rich folks, You keep your money and the rest of us will talk about racism but not really do anything.

  • I think the time for that is over.

  • I'm ready to get in this fight and really make it.

  • Let's keep this debate going, Mr Starr.

  • Look out of narrative comes policy, and we're talking about a lot of policies that affect Americans broadly and disproportionately affect black Americans or Brown Americans.

  • But what I believe is we should set up a commission on race and deal with race explicitly because ever in saying we can't have rules that are different for different people.

  • But in fact we're here because we had rules that are different for different people.

  • I would set up a formal commission on race on day one to retell the story of the last 400 years in America of systematic racism against African Americans, not just legal discrimination, injustice and cruelty, but also the contribution that the African American community has made to America in building it and in leading the entire country from a moral standpoint for generations and centuries because I believe out of narrative comes policy.

  • We need to repair damage that's been done officially, and pretending we're all the same is not accurate.

  • We got here a certain way.

  • Let's talk about Jim Crow.

  • Let's talk about Martin Luther King.

  • Let's talk about Barbara Lee, the congresswoman from Oakland who's one of our great leaders.

  • And then let's figure out how to repair the damage so we can move forward together.

  • Mr.

  • Yang, take on that argument also what he said about reparations.

  • The median African American household net worth is projected to be zero by 2053.

  • Things are not getting better for people of color.

  • If anything, they're getting worse because we're in the process of eliminating the most common jobs in our economy.

  • It's something of an economic, unnatural disaster and who suffers most in a natural disaster.

  • People of color, people with lower levels of capital and access to opportunity and education.

  • And while I know we love to champion education here as Democrats, only 33% of Americans are going to attend college.

  • Lower percentage of African Americans There is no way we can prevent this tsunami from wiping out African American networth unless we put straight cash into their hands sometime between now and 2053.

  • And it's not just them.

  • It is truck drivers.

  • It is retail clerks.

  • It is call center workers.

  • It is accountants.

  • It is bookkeepers.

  • We are in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in the history of our country, and it's going to hit black people the hardest.

  • We have to stop nibbling at the edges and actually start solving the real problem.

South Carolina.

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