2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRighteous rant from BLM fighter on Bill Clinton and his horrible comments:
https://www.facebook.com/heymerv/posts/10208201213681574?fref=nfYes, President Bill Clinton.
This movement unapologetically fights for drug dealers. Our brothers & sisters. Our mothers & fathers. Our cousins and friends. Us, too. Those you would cast off as murderous gangsters. The superpredators.
They were thrown away into prisons meant to strip them of their dignity as you pandered to the fears of white working-class voters. You told them they would be safer and a bit more free, distracting them from their own poverty. You even sold some of us that same story.
We lost a generation. If they came back, they came back broken. And we still haven't figured out how to make them whole when they come home. So they keep going back.
You, however, gained another term. Your friends got rich off the sweet chattel of prison labor and cell occupancy rate increases.
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liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)This is exactly my issue with all this BS! The Clinton's are acting with they were locking up super villains but it was mostly kids swept up in non violent crimes.
The sad thing is that some people are happy with what Bill said.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)They don't deserve one damn vote from a person of color. Not one.
azmom
(5,208 posts)the devastation that was caused. He just blamed it on the community and others.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)I'm glad he said this- Bill and others basically said some(many?) lives are worth less than others...and that he and other people in power get to say who those people are.
We are all human beings, and no life should ever be subject to devaluing. We are not the dollar bills in our pockets, we are our hearts, our voices, our hands and our history.
We are one.
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amborin
(16,631 posts)dchill
(38,516 posts)But so full of pain.
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Armstead
(47,803 posts)Only when Bernie gets slammed does it matter
"What a tangled web we weave"
Uncle Joe
(58,389 posts)Thanks for the thread, AllyCat.
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Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Zira
(1,054 posts)Yes, good riddance to him.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)I wonder if they were serious.
It kind of seemed like they meant it.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)JURY RESULTS
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Zira
(1,054 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)I'm going to alert on the results, admin should have a look.
Zira
(1,054 posts)AllyCat
(16,211 posts)Think I've run into that one before and thought I'd ignored. Must be a different troll.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)It automatically shows up when a newbie troll is taken out.
AllyCat
(16,211 posts)Zira
(1,054 posts)Wonder if that's a record for this site?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)MIRT takes him out pretty fast, although this jury was on the ball too!
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Fuck them both. They use race when it suits their needs, just like republicons.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)They buddy up to the black community when they need their votes. When conservative white voters get up in arms, the Clintons "evolve" to a more racially confrontational style. Then back again as need be.
I was shocked, given how Hillary used racial politics against then candidate Obama, that POC gave her overwhelming support. I still haven't figured that one out. Now that the black "firewall" in the South pretty much assured her nomination, the Clintons are free to appeal to the white redneck voters--and nothing does that better than a good, old fashioned Sister Souljah moment.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Thank you !