NINA TURNER on LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, MSNBC now. Michelle Alexander's new

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article and Clinton's Crime Bill in 1994.

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1. she is the best, I heard her on MsNBC this afternoon

Cabinet position for her at the very minimum

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2. Absolutely, Nina Turner of Ohio is amazing and formidable. Smart, charming and

possessed with a good sense of humor too. Nina is a born leader and bright star who will receive a cabinet position at least.

Nina Turner

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9. Rachel Maddow last night was before Lawrence's session with BEN JEALOUS, fmr. Chairman

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and CEO of the NAACP. Ben explains his endorsement of Sanders and many of the issues that have damaged black people and communities particularly since the policies of the 1990s and earlier. Well done.

Video, http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/jealous-draws-distinctions-in-democratic-race-620769347989

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10. Earlier yesterday Andrea Mitchell MSNBC with South Carolina Rep. JAMES CLYBURN

when she queried him about who he would endorse. Not yet Clyburn said, and "I have to be true to the people of South Carolina".

Video, http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/rep-clyburn-on-clinton-v-sanders-race-620320323606

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3. I hope so!

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8. Here's Nina Turner introducing Bernie to the packed house in Cleveland.

She explained many of the problems that need addressing and Sen. Bernie Sanders platform and determination.

Her theme of 'enough is enough' stirred the crowds, like the story of her grandmother b. 1913 who told her the secret to success in life when she asked-the 3 bones: the wishbone, the jawbone and the backbone. Historic speech by a remarkable woman and advocate for the people.

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5. Tonight I heard someone suggest her for VP n/t

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4. I don't understand...

...why the Clintons get a pass for playing the race card against Obama in 2008 during a dirty campaign, but Bernie is ripped for having honest criticism of Obama's policies? He criticizes the policies because they are corporate policies that hurt regular people of all races. The Oligarchy has resorted to using identity politics to hide the real agenda, which is 1% greed above all else. Nina Turner is one hell of a lady and I hope she can get a bigger spotlight to speak the truth.

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12. Anything & everything is and will be shoddy, manipulated to discredit Bernie. Unpleasant to watch

for sure, but we've seen this before in campaigns. And Bernie's a true fighter with wisdom, skills and quick on his feet. He's armed as best as possible I'm sure and has his own record, strengths and a terrific campaign organization to rely on, not to mention massive support from The People.

Agree that Nina Turner is just exceptional, one powerful and effective lady who is going far!

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13. And now we have social media and the net, like never ever before

to quickly dispel lies and innuendo, backed up with fact.

Let the Clintons and their slimy tactics try to do their fucking damnedest...we will be right back in their FACE with the truth!

Go Bernie!

Go Berners!

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14. Lightning fast internet and social media are making a yuge difference in

communicating and quickly detecting the truth. I love it!

[eridani]

6. Michelle Alexander (Facebook): The Clintons' Record Is Utterly Abysmal on Race

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35112-focus-the-clintons-record-is-utterly-abysmal-on-race

I do not endorse Bernie Sanders, as a candidate, because I do not believe the Democratic Party can be saved from itself and therefore I will not endorse any Democratic candidate. BUT I believe it is critically important that he is helping to build a popular consensus in favor of political revolution. I endorse the revolution.

The Clintons' record is utterly abysmal on race, poverty and criminal justice. They are now headed to South Carolina to play their usual games with black people. Few things would bring me more joy than to see people of conscience organizing on a massive scale across the country to stop their madness, wake up the communities that that have been most harmed by Clintonism, and put a decisive end to the kind of politics that the "New Democrats" and the Clintons have championed for 25 years.

I just published this piece in The Nation which explains exactly why the Clintons do not deserve the black vote. I hope you will share it and help mobilize our communities to stop the effort by the Clintons to play us once again.

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7. Nation article: Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/

We should have seen it coming. Back then, Clinton was the standard-bearer for the New Democrats, a group that firmly believed the only way to win back the millions of white voters in the South who had defected to the Republican Party was to adopt the right-wing narrative that black communities ought to be disciplined with harsh punishment rather than coddled with welfare. Reagan had won the presidency by dog-whistling to poor and working-class whites with coded racial appeals: railing against “welfare queens” and criminal “predators” and condemning “big government.” Clinton aimed to win them back, vowing that he would never permit any Republican to be perceived as tougher on crime than he.

Just weeks before the critical New Hampshire primary, Clinton proved his toughness by flying back to Arkansas to oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a mentally impaired black man who had so little conception of what was about to happen to him that he asked for the dessert from his last meal to be saved for him for later. After the execution, Clinton remarked, “I can be nicked a lot, but no one can say I’m soft on crime.”

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Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history. Clinton did not declare the War on Crime or the War on Drugs—those wars were declared before Reagan was elected and long before crack hit the streets—but he escalated it beyond what many conservatives had imagined possible. He supported the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity for crack versus powder cocaine, which produced staggering racial injustice in sentencing and boosted funding for drug-law enforcement.

Clinton championed the idea of a federal “three strikes” law in his 1994 State of the Union address and, months later, signed a $30 billion crime bill that created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some three-time offenders, and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and the expansion of police forces. The legislation was hailed by mainstream-media outlets as a victory for the Democrats, who “were able to wrest the crime issue from the Republicans and make it their own.”

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11. I read the excellent recent article by civil rights advocate, attny. and author Michelle Alexander

drawing on her landmark research and book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", 2010. Alexander provides the data and an in depth study of the US history of brutal oppression of black Americans preceding the drastic and destructive policies of the 1990s during the Clinton administration that have destroyed countless black people, families and communities.
-Wiki, Michelle Alexander, law professor, civil rights advocate and writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Alexander



Fortunately we are now seeing much more of this disturbing truth coming out through commentary by notable figures like Bernie, Black Lives Matter members, Danny Glover, advocate and leader Ben Jealous, writer and intellectual Ta-Nahesi Coates, outspoken Rap/Activist Michael Render/Killer Mike and others.



-Feb. 5, 2016. 'Actor and Political Activist Danny Glover Endorses Bernie Sanders'
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/actor-and-political-activist-danny-glover-endorses-bernie-sanders

Today *HARRY BELAFONTE, artist, humanitarian and longtime civil rights activist is releasing a new VIDEO endorsing Sanders for president. --> And many more black working families and millennials are attracted to Bernie for his stances on income inequality, the unfairness of the appalling US criminal justice system, the need to address college affordability, job creation and climate change. A young woman was just on with Chris Jansing, MSNBC voicing these concerns and supporting Bernie.

-Politico, 'HARRY BELAFONTE ENDORSES BERNIE SANDERS', Feb. 11, 2016.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/harry-belafonte-endorses-bernie-sanders-219130



Inroads are being made to inform the general public yet establishment figures are also now relaying a different story to the mainstream media trying to counter these revelations, uphold the Clintons' policies and diminish Bernie's lifelong advocacy of civil rights, his work with many African American organizations and endorsement of the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson.
One of the most active groups right now is the CBC, the *CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS that just endorsed Hillary Clinton. Vocal members like NY Rep. Hakeem Jeffries are speaking out. He just appeared today on MSNBC with Steve Kornacki endorsing Clinton and unsupportive of Bernie's growing strength and record with African Americans.

VIDEO Today, Steve Kornacki, MSNBC, Rep. HAKEEM JEFFRIES,"Clinton: A 'True Friend' of African Americans" http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/congressman-clinton-a-true-friend-to-african-americans-620992579875



-Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) member of the Congressional Black Caucus/CBC.

?UPDATE: Contrary to media reporting, Rep. KEITH ELLISON clarified this morning by tweeting at 7:47 am that the CBC superpac, not the CBC has endorsed Clinton.*@keithellison "Cong'l Black Caucus (CBC) has NOT endorsed in presidential. Separate CBCPAC endorsed withOUT input from CBC membership, including me."

**AlterNet, 'SLOWLY BUT SURELY BERNIE IS SECURING THE BLACK VOTE: Bernie Meets Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous, Ta-Nehisi Support, Michelle Alexander' with *VIDEOS.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-meets-sharpton-ben-jealous-and-ta-nehisi-coates-support-and-michelle-alexander