There are "bad apples" in every segment of the population and I would submit that there are a LOT of things white people say that might seem totally innocuous until you hear it from a totally different background and perspective.

I would also add that I was fairly oblivious to discrimination directed toward me until a friend of mine from NYC pointed it out one summer night in an art program I was in before starting college. One simple statement altered how I saw the world and my place in it, eye-opening, revealing.

We, as a nation, have become MUCH more intolerant of alternate points of view. It's not just about race. It's about sexual preference, gender, religion, educational background, anything and EVERYTHING that sets us apart from each other, that can be used to regroup individuals into a classification.

"I don't want to sit near you because you've got a big beard or you're wearing a sleeveless t-shirt or you kissed that girl too long. Something about you makes me really uncomfortable."

No, something about YOURSELF makes you really uncomfortable, you're just projecting that discomfort on me because you can hear the ticking sound I make and you wonder if it's a bomb.

Yes, this has happened to me personally even though my prosthetic tricuspid valve "beats" consistently faster than 60 times a minute.

I make no excuse for these supposedly racist "Berner Bros." Neither does Sanders. He doesn't ignore the issue, but he tries not to direct too much attention to it either. I won't argue the strategy. I think the media draws more attention to it than it's worth considering all the aspects of his campaign.

I've yet to see serious attention being given to the sheer VOLUME of supporters that show up at his events. I've yet to see any stories relating to the VIBE at these events, the warmth and genuine positivity. No, what makes news is when a few dozen people at a caucus let their frustrations boil over until a chair is tossed to the floor and coarse words are heard for a moment before officials get escorted to their next event.

Meanwhile, arrests are made and people get sent to the hospital for injuries received at a Trump event. While that's news, it's three 'graphs followed by five reiterating his poll numbers and insurmountable lead in the GOP. It's not the headline.

We, as a nation, are still reeling from the 9/11 attacks, the aftermath caused not only by terrorists from overseas, but also by the actions of a president and his team that overstepped their bounds to do what they thought was the right thing to do to protect our nation and the unintended consequences and legacy from those actions.

We still have a LOT to account for to the rest of the planet and to ourselves. We've created much of this new racism and bigotry. In some ways, it has always been there, but now it is much worse than before.

We're not teaching our past in school. We're not teaching tolerance and compassion at home.

Those that are in power, that want to be in power, are capitalizing on this. Not everyone, not Bernie Sanders, but most of them are.

This racist charge is a pretty weak attack on Bernie Sanders.

THIS is pissing me off. The past day or so I've noticed stories suggesting that there is a conservative bias in Facebook. Arstechnica posted as such, as did the NY Times. I know that Facebook algorithms are designed to "tailor" content on your news feed to links, stories, ads, people, that you might have an interest in. OK, fine, that's an advertising trick. The same reason why you see ads for stuff that you looked for on Amazon come up when you're looking at the Time Magazine website, a trick in tracking cookies and other "hidden" things your browser does while you surf.

Remember that, right now, you are being tracked. I'm not doing it, but this site is. Perhaps I could tap in to that some how, maybe if I was trying to make money on this . . .

Anyway. My point is the TRENDING garbage at the time of the image above. That's a screen capture of my Facebook page, as I see it on my computer. Bernie Sanders won the primary in West Virginia and what's "trending"? Hillary.

DAFUQ?!?!?

Media bias. Who benefits the powers that be (corporations) more in this election cycle? Clinton or Sanders?

Frankly, I doubt anyone with a large chunk of change is seriously looking forward to four years of a staunch independent thinker who has made a career and a life over fighting for the common man, the minority, the downtrodden living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Hillary has shown time and again that she listens to big business, responds to it, helps it. Same with Trump. Trump is the epitome of big business, a failure several times over but he's savvy and knows how to manipulate uncertainty to his personal advantage. Both Hillary and Donald do this.

Sanders is a common man who was arrested protesting for civil rights, not for him, but for other men and women, equals, who had the misfortune to be born non-white.

I'm still voting for Bernie, even if it means a write in as long as it won't mean Trump wins. Hillary isn't change, she is status quo ante.