"Clinton posing as any kind of friend to Black Americans is ... absurd".

[thereismore]

Not long ago I posted a thread about reparations to Black Americans. Mostly, I got criticized. Well, here is a view from the black community that mentions the issue and also has a lot to say about our two candidates:


"Still, Sanders is the rational candidate and Sanders' presidency may still be in Black America's interest. But until he show that he can be less dismissive on a subject near and dear to those who still have grainy plantation photos in cabinets, stories lodged in the memory of aunts being spat on in Jim Crow South, and cousins locked behind privatized prison walls for marijuana trafficking, he should be challenged. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton chauffeured hordes of Blacks and Latinos into the prison industrial complex, describing them as "super-predators" at one point. It would be ahistorical to say the term super-predators doesn't have roots in demonizing African-Americans. In many ways, Clinton posing as any kind of friend to Black Americans is as absurd as O'Malley's similar claims."

http://www.citypaper.com/news/mobtownbeat/bcp-020316-reparations-tariq-toure-20160202-story.html

[ViseGrip]

1. I agree. You look at the numbers now, and results with the Clinton Welfare Reform Act.

I know I know, it's not Bill running....

[rhett o rick]

2. She is a strong member of the culture that has done much damage to the AA community. nm

[billhicks76]

11. Independents Will Never Vote For A Proven Liar

Might as well concede to the Republicans now if nominate her.

[Odin2005]

3. The Hillarians are trying to inflame a popular false dichtomy between...

...defending the working class on one and helping people of color, women, and LGBT folks on the other. The insinuation by Hillary supporters is that "working class people" means only working class white men.

[thereismore]

5. Yes, but Bernie should stress issues of race more. It cannot be swept under the rug of economic

inequality. Not yet anyway.

[Armstead]

8. He's trying....With an agenda as big as his, though, it has to cover a lot of issues

Part of that may also be that social justice is so ingrained in his bones, he assumes others recognize it too. Maybe...just a theory

[thereismore]

9. I think you nailed it. He didn't understand why BLM were disrupting his meetings. They were preachin

to the choir. Misdirected outrage hit him, why I don't know. And now we MAY end up with Clinton as a candidate because of it.

[zentrum]

13. I agree.

But I trust him to actually do the more for minorities than HRC. And his lack of addressing it enough pales in comparison to the real and lasting harm the Clintons did with the Welfare Reform Act and NAFTA and the Prison Reform Act. I will never understand how minorities can overlook these hugely detrimental policies and stand by her.

The immigrant detention centers that are terrifying immigrants today are modeled on Clinton's Prison Privatization.

Why are the Clintons not held accountable?

[JRLeft]

4. Agreed

[uponit7771]

6. After 3 months in IA Sanders loses PoC vote by 25 points, it seems blacks don't want to be ...

... Bern Victims and it's just not blacks.

Women, Hispanics, Poor (sans white males), LGBT all lean double digits towards Hillary and its 3 weeks until SC primary where Sanders has to close a 70% spread with 50% of the primary voters there.

The very people the revolution is supposed to be reaching out to are the ones pulling away from Sanders message IA is a tell tale...

20+ point spread in a demographic after 3 months means revolution... against his message

[thereismore]

7. Are they pulling away or pulling toward or are you just making it up as you wish? nt

[uponit7771]

18. 20+ point lost days pulling away... 20+ is a big demo loss...

... No matter if he came back from - 6467487 billion

[angel123]

17. AA support for Hillary

I hope you are not that delusional. AA are not easily fooled. No Sanders will not destroy Hillary in New Hampshire. It will take a lot more for AA to flee the Hillary camp. I am old enough to remember her work for children in the 1990's.

[questionseverything]

22. when she and bill happily kicked their mothers off cash assistance?

is that what you are so fondly remembering ?

or when she called aa youth "super predators"

[billhicks76]

10. She Supported Locking Up Black People

Like Biden she is all about the Drug War. The Drug War is treasonous in itself.

[AzDar]

14. Welfare 'Reform' /Crime Bills/ Contributions from Private Prisons/ Supporting Draconian Drug Laws...

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[Lazy Daisy]

20. Bring them to heel?

You mean like the dog command?
So let me get this straight, we need to treat underprivileged kids like dogs? That'll make it better?

[Fumesucker]

21. Ultra priveleged blond haired blue eyed white woman talking about bringing black kids to heel

But Bernie is the real racist.

[JaneyVee]

15. I'll take Rep John Lewis' word over anonymous blogger any day.

[thereismore]

19. That just proves you didn't bother to read the article.

The "blogger" is not anonymous. He has a name, a voice, and an opinion. Your attitude is insulting to him and me.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, thereismore.