Story highlights Bernie Sanders said Monday that his comment in regard to a racial "blind spot" was really about police oppression in black communities

Sanders took fire after some Clinton supporters asserted that he meant only African-Americans live in poverty

Washington (CNN) Just a day before the Michigan primary, Bernie Sanders was on clean-up duty for comments he made during CNN's Democratic Debate Sunday in Flint, Michigan.

The Vermont senator was asked by CNN's Don Lemon, "Senator Sanders, on a personal front, what racial blind spots do you have?"

Sanders said: "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."

This quickly drew a rebuke from supporters of Hillary Clinton and others on Twitter and beyond. Pundits said the phrasing made it sound like Sanders thought only African-Americans lived in poverty.

On Monday, Sanders sought to clarify.

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