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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 09:22 AM Feb 2016

I think Pres Bernie can speak to the American people about racism and the atrocities being

committed against the black community b/c he will speak from the heart. He will speak to our better angels and he can address the false stereotypes of the black community. There are people who didn't realize the extent of what was going on in the black community. Most people aren't even aware of the prison industrial complex. It's not like it gets discussed on the news. But there are a lot of good Americans appalled and outraged by what they are seeing and learning. To see black teenagers and children executed. To realize that the prison pipeline is used to provide slave labor for the corporations and to think about all of the Black families that have been destroyed by unfair policies. People want this to change and want these injustices to be righted.

And I think he will appoint people who will roll up their sleeves and tackle the problems facing the black community and all Americans.

It is what he passionately believes in.







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I think Pres Bernie can speak to the American people about racism and the atrocities being (Original Post) Skwmom Feb 2016 OP
I absolutely agree. The Revolution has begun. yourpaljoey Feb 2016 #1
he knows about the incentives to fill prisons, the disinvestment in "those neighborhoods," MisterP Feb 2016 #2

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
2. he knows about the incentives to fill prisons, the disinvestment in "those neighborhoods,"
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 03:17 PM
Feb 2016

the police replacing budgets with tickets and forfeiture ...

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