Clinton supporter "disappointed by her lack of Native American outreach"

[Mike__M]

Bernie Sanders is doing better with Native voters

Jennifer Falcon at Indianz.com

Jennifer K. Falcon, a member of the Fort Peck Tribes, plans to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton but she believes Bernie Sanders has done a better job reaching out to Native voters:

Senator Sanders is the first presidential candidate so far to really address Native Americans and their issues. I am as much Native American as I am woman. I know that, according to the Department of Justice, Native American women suffer domestic violence at a 50 percent higher rate than other minorities. While I will openly admit that I am going to vote for former Secretary Hillary Clinton, and have given many hours phone banking and organizing her, I also openly admit that I have been disappointed by her lack of Native American outreach. I contacted her campaign and asked to help with outreach for the Native vote, but have never heard anything.

While white feminist urge that there is a special place in hell for women who do not support other women, white feminist do not realize that hell is a concept forced upon Native people. We have already been to hell, ask my grandmother about the Indian Boarding school she was forced to attend. My grandmother’s personal hell is one Native families carry, and their historical trauma is passed on through generations. With our higher poverty rates and higher addictions rates, many Native kids already grow up in harsh conditions which seem hellish. We should neither be ashamed nor afraid to hold our presidential candidates accountable and ask them how they will fight for us.

http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/020475.asp

[tk2kewl]

1. they won't move the needle so Clinton ignores them

[thereismore]

2. There you go. nt

[randr]

3. The whole DNC crowd in DC

have no regard for Native issues. An occasional bone is thrown but Leonard is still rotting a jail as a political prisoner.

[roguevalley]

4. don't worry. Cook report on another thread says HRC will lock up

the nomination in a week. So go home. Nothing to see here. Obey your overlord(ess) as she makes you poorer than even you could imagine.