The Moms of BLM Supporting Hillary

[firebrand80]

The women—Maria Hamilton, the mother of Dontre Hamilton; Lucia McBath, the mother of Jordan Davis; Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland; Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin; and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner—spoke to small audiences at three black churches in the first round of a two-day trip that will culminate Tuesday night in a mega-rally with Clinton in Columbia. They talked emotionally about their faith and their families' trauma, but they were there primarily to deliver a simple message about the Democratic presidential front-runner: You can trust Hillary Clinton.

They all described an intensive courtship by the Clinton campaign that began quietly, through back-channels, and outside the glare of the national media. Hamilton got her first meeting with Clinton after she promised on Facebook to shut down a Clinton rally with a protest in Milwaukee last spring. When the two met, they hugged for three minutes, and Hamilton cried on Clinton's shoulder. Reed-Veal met Clinton at a Congressional Black Caucus dinner. "She walked up, held my hand, and she said, 'What is it that you want?'" Reed-Veal recalled. She got a personal letter from Clinton afterward. Then she got a second letter, inviting her to a Democratic debate. After a Texas grand jury decided not to indict anyone for her daughter's death, she got a third letter from Clinton.

Clinton sealed the deal, they explained, when she met with the five of them last fall in a conference room in Chicago. It was a low-key affair. The candidates' staffers shooed reporters from the room before it began, and Clinton showed up with a notepad to jot down what she heard. They were told they had 30 minutes; the meeting lasted for two hours. "She knew which cases went to jail," Fulton said, when she told the story at the second stop of the day, a church in Sumter. "She knew specifically what happened in our tragedies. She knew that information and she knew because she cares. She cares. Not only does she care about victims of gun violence but she cares about women, she cares about African Americans. She cares!"

"We sat there and collaborated with her and her staffers," Reed-Veal recalled, sounding a little awed. "Our concerns are implemented in her policy. God is good! He was in the room. The Lord was was in the room! And Hillary was that mother, that grandmother, that sister."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hillary-clinton-moms-black-lives-matter

[leftofcool]

1. And that is how it works. Quiet, behind the spotlight communication.

[firebrand80]

3. I wish Hillary was better and showing that part of herself publicly nt

[Armstead]

7. Quiet behind the spotlight to set up the spotlight

Okay. Whatever.

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. Promoting an architect of mass incarceration.

No doubt they'll be surprised when they get more of the same.

"Clinton sealed the deal" that says it all. And it didn't even cost much.

[INdemo]

5. This surprises me

For a woman that was part of putting Black children in a situation of hunger and malnutrition when her and Bill pushed forward the Republican plan for Weldare reform I guess these women aren't aware of Hillary's active support for that bill.

[Gamecock Lefty]

6. BLM Moms REJECT Sanders, CHOOSE Hillary Instead!

That's what the title should have been. That way you could have matched the spirit of the opposition - those sensational headlines of all the anti-Hillary threads!

[firebrand80]

8. The random CAPITALIZATION is essential nt

[cali]

9. Lol. BLM leaders reject Hillary and her dog whistle too!