Clinton Campaign Starts Black Lives Matter Outreach
Over the weekend, Clinton’s black outreach director, LaDavia Drane, attended the Movement for Black Lives convention in Cleveland. That visit marked the campaign’s first outreach to the movement, which has seen even wider press coverage in the past week after activists disrupted a presidential forum at Netroots Nation.
That protest has been fresh in the minds of presidential campaigns and many of the at least 1,300 attendees — according to organizers — at the weekend’s convention.
A Clinton campaign official on Saturday confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Drane “had one-on-one meetings and group listening sessions to engage stakeholders including ministers, community organizers, elected officials, and other individuals in Cleveland for the Movement for Black Lives.” An Ohio native, Drane engaged people inside the movement and listened to a range of suggestions related to Clinton’s outreach, as well as policy recommendations, the official said.
“We will continue to engage a wide array of stakeholders, including members of the black lives matter movement, when crafting policy on important issues like reforming our criminal justice system,” the official said.
Hillary Clinton knows she has to #earnthisdamnvoteorlose. Black voters owe her nothing, and she knows it. She is going to work to win their support.
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"Feel the hate is strong." 
That protest has been fresh in the minds of presidential campaigns and many of the at least 1,300 attendees — according to organizers — at the weekend’s convention.
A Clinton campaign official on Saturday confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Drane “had one-on-one meetings and group listening sessions to engage stakeholders including ministers, community organizers, elected officials, and other individuals in Cleveland for the Movement for Black Lives.” An Ohio native, Drane engaged people inside the movement and listened to a range of suggestions related to Clinton’s outreach, as well as policy recommendations, the official said."
This is the most important issue.. right now.
Joshua Jackson ?@JoshuaKJackson
Dear White Progressives,
Black people don't HAVE to support Bernie or anyone. You don't own us & we don't owe you ANYTHING
#BernieSoBlack
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emissary.
Sorry, but 5% poc on your staff doesn't impress me. 
Hillary had a big head start and given some of her statements, and Bill's, back in 2008, she surely knew she needed to do something really, really big to undo the damage.
I'm guessing her need to undo that old damage why staff diversity is suddenly a meme of the day and another way to try to imply Bernie is racist. Meh.
He's doing ok funding wise, but I doubt his paid staff will ever be as ginormous as Hill's. End of this week when I pay my bills is when I will give him my little monthly donation. So'long as I have a few bucks left over I have a few to give.
Meantime it was an absolute shock to me to learn that there was a local meeting for him in my tiny, red, red village. Unfortunately I had to work a 13-hour shift that day, so couldn't attend. But soon I'll be retiring and then can volunteer. 
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I think you have her confused with the other two guys.
Odd, selective outrage
and praise about the
exact same three words?
Sweet praise if it's from Hillary...
tone-deaf ignorance from others???
Wow, that comes off as desperate.
The EXACT SAME THING
ARE THE EXACT SAME THREE WORDS.
Hillary is a sweetheart for telling an
obliviously fabricated anecdote...
while others are scolded for being tone-deaf?
Selective outrage if there ever was such a thing
...as though she writes her own material
-David Ogilvy
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But just in case....
Especially on the national level. I don't care who the candidate is.
Some strategies may leave a better taste in your mouth than others, but it's doesn't negate the necessity of finding the one that works.
As to who is and isn't pissed off, you cross that bridge when the time comes. Like Obama's doing anything differently now with those his policies have pissed off ("I didn't vote for that!"
. Comes with the territory.
