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Hillary Clinton confronts the past in South Carolina 'corridor of shame'
Source: The Guardian
Hillary Clinton confronts the past in South Carolina 'corridor of shame'
Clinton is promising a partnership with officials that would provide
investment to ‘lift up’ impoverished parts of the state – a plan warmly
met by voters
Lucia Graves in Dillon, South Carolina
Saturday 27 February 2016 17.13 GMT
Eight years ago, the man who would go on to be the first black president came to this decrepit school in rural black South Carolina with a promise to change things. He did. The 1896 building he visited, where the elevators didn’t work, the heating was inadequate and a roofs leaked, has been donated to the local historical society, and a slick new junior high school of gleaming brick has been built five minutes down the road. Better teachers and test scores followed but the work statewide is far from finished.
If Hillary Clinton is sworn into office next January, her path to the White House will have run through the so-called “Corridor of Shame”, a stretch of impoverished, largely black school districts running along Interstate 95. The school Barack Obama visited in 2008, JV Martin Junior High School, is but one. As she vies with Bernie Sanders for minority voters, Clinton has put the strife of such poor minority communities front and center in her campaign, speaking with civil rights leaders, meeting with younger activists and visiting Flint, Michigan, in the wake of the predominantly black city’s water crisis.
While some residents have voiced skepticism about Clinton’s devotion to their interests, expressed as it is in the middle of a surprisingly close Democratic primary, South Carolinians have welcomed her message. In their state, economic inequality stems from a history of racial inequality, rather than the other way around, as Sanders’ team often argues.
The question for many voters here, as Clinton appears poised to clinch her party’s nomination, is whether she’ll follow through on promises to the underprivileged communities like Dillon empowering her.
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Clinton is promising a partnership with officials that would provide
investment to ‘lift up’ impoverished parts of the state – a plan warmly
met by voters
Lucia Graves in Dillon, South Carolina
Saturday 27 February 2016 17.13 GMT
Eight years ago, the man who would go on to be the first black president came to this decrepit school in rural black South Carolina with a promise to change things. He did. The 1896 building he visited, where the elevators didn’t work, the heating was inadequate and a roofs leaked, has been donated to the local historical society, and a slick new junior high school of gleaming brick has been built five minutes down the road. Better teachers and test scores followed but the work statewide is far from finished.
If Hillary Clinton is sworn into office next January, her path to the White House will have run through the so-called “Corridor of Shame”, a stretch of impoverished, largely black school districts running along Interstate 95. The school Barack Obama visited in 2008, JV Martin Junior High School, is but one. As she vies with Bernie Sanders for minority voters, Clinton has put the strife of such poor minority communities front and center in her campaign, speaking with civil rights leaders, meeting with younger activists and visiting Flint, Michigan, in the wake of the predominantly black city’s water crisis.
While some residents have voiced skepticism about Clinton’s devotion to their interests, expressed as it is in the middle of a surprisingly close Democratic primary, South Carolinians have welcomed her message. In their state, economic inequality stems from a history of racial inequality, rather than the other way around, as Sanders’ team often argues.
The question for many voters here, as Clinton appears poised to clinch her party’s nomination, is whether she’ll follow through on promises to the underprivileged communities like Dillon empowering her.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/27/south-carolina-hillary-clintons-pledge-improve-education
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