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Hillary Clinton to deliver major speech on racism
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-speech-racism-harlem-219311In a high-profile speech in Harlem on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is expected to address the issue of systemic racism, and offer solutions for how to break down the barriers that hold back African American families.
The speech is part of Clinton’s effort in recent days— as she closes in on the South Carolina primary and turns her attention toward more diverse March states — to show that she views racism and discrimination as stand-alone problems in American in need of their own solutions. Her approach appears designed to highlight the contrast with her chief rival Bernie Sanders, who so far in his campaign has mainly addressed racism through the lens of economic inequality.
In her speech, which she is scheduled to deliver after a closed-door meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton, National Urban League President Marc Morial and NAACP President Cornell Brooks earlier in the day, Clinton is expected to call for “new investments in job creation to ending redlining to ensuring equal pay for women of color to ending the school-to-prison pipeline,” according to a campaign aide.
The speech is part of Clinton’s effort in recent days— as she closes in on the South Carolina primary and turns her attention toward more diverse March states — to show that she views racism and discrimination as stand-alone problems in American in need of their own solutions. Her approach appears designed to highlight the contrast with her chief rival Bernie Sanders, who so far in his campaign has mainly addressed racism through the lens of economic inequality.
In her speech, which she is scheduled to deliver after a closed-door meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton, National Urban League President Marc Morial and NAACP President Cornell Brooks earlier in the day, Clinton is expected to call for “new investments in job creation to ending redlining to ensuring equal pay for women of color to ending the school-to-prison pipeline,” according to a campaign aide.
OK, it's Politico, but non snarky towards Clinton.
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"OK, it's Politico, but non snarky towards Clinton."
Good coverage, wherever it comes from is good news.
unmitigated crap posted everywhere about Hillary that I like to do my part in posting good things.
Keeping the Hillary flame a-burning here! 
I'm currently in the US and will be phone banking for Hillary tomorrow night. 
