DeRay Mckesson of Black Lives Matter is endorsing Hillary Clinton

[La Lioness Priyanka]

....Clinton’s platform on racial justice is strong: It is informed by the policy failings of the past and is a vision for where we need to go.

It acknowledges the need to establish new restrictions on police use of force and militarization, invest in treatment and rehabilitation as alternatives to police and prisons, and protect and expand the right to vote.

It also explicitly calls for undoing some of the key components of the 1994 crime bill that Bill Clinton signed into law, such as mandatory minimums, the “three strikes” laws and the remaining 18-to-1 disparity in sentences between crack and powder cocaine.

Perhaps most impressively, she calls for a $125 billion Economic Revitalization Initiative that is akin to a new New Deal, structurally investing in youth employment, re-entry, small business growth and homeownership.

Her platform signals both deep understanding of the challenges and a plan to move us forward. When I met with her last week, it was clear that she now understands these issues well at a policy level and that she has researched the implications of the positions that she has proposed. In this meeting, she spoke both about the context of change and the concrete actions necessary to open new pathways of equity and justice.......

...
I often hear some of my peers say that they may not vote, that a Donald Trump presidency would bring about a productive apocalypse — that the system would grind to a halt and force us to confront everything that is wrong with the system. But we know that the system will not come to a grinding halt; it never has. In a Trump administration, the system would surely grind us, black and brown folks, even more than it already does.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/26/deray-mckesson-why-im-voting-for-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=.f0b2c25dcff4


Read it, especially if you consider yourself a progressive.

[dzika]

1. Why did he wait...

...until 13 days before the election?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. He's busy doing other things too?

[NCTraveler]

2. K&R

"Clinton’s platform on racial justice is strong: It is informed by the policy failings of the past and is a vision for where we need to go."

[bigtree]

4. k&r