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.