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    Originally published: The Root on December 4, 2018 by Monique Judge (more by The Root)  | (Posted Dec 06, 2018)

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    Originally published: The Root on October 12, 2017 by Frances Negrón-Muntaner (more by The Root)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2017)

    Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and asked if he thought President Donald Trump’s punishing response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico had something to do with “race or ethnicity.” Sanders hesitated a bit but ultimately said, “We have a right to be suspect.”

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