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Where is Hillary's racial justice platform. Bernie has one. Hillary does not. (Original Post) Luminous Animal Oct 2015 OP
... JaneyVee Oct 2015 #1
I love seeing people having a good time. Luminous Animal Oct 2015 #2
Utterly terrifying whatchamacallit Oct 2015 #3
Are you saying Hillary thinks PoC are just there to entertain her? cui bono Oct 2015 #5
This might be: JaneyVee Oct 2015 #13
I'm surprised that she doesn't have one by now but do Hillary voters even care? Bernblu Oct 2015 #4
i SUSPECT YOU ARE RIGHT. 840high Oct 2015 #7
The BLM groups that met with Clinton & Co have not been very pleased with their meetings jeff47 Oct 2015 #8
And now the people who called BLM a Soros/Big Pharma/Palin group NuclearDem Oct 2015 #15
If they start out acting like dupes, then wise up cprise Oct 2015 #22
How would "they" be able to do that?! Do you really think most Americans are paying attention right. uponit7771 Oct 2015 #16
Kick whatchamacallit Oct 2015 #6
*crickets* in_cog_ni_to Oct 2015 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #10
To be honest plans from a President don't mean shit if bigdarryl Oct 2015 #11
HRC supporter here. Yes, there does need to be a specific list of policy positions. NuclearDem Oct 2015 #12
Here: JaneyVee Oct 2015 #14
That's not what BLM wants, because it goes beyond criminal justice. eom cprise Oct 2015 #23
I'm betting she'll get with her good friends.... 99Forever Oct 2015 #17
O'Malley has the best criminal justice platform. askew Oct 2015 #18
When she needs a policy position, she pays a staffer to write one up. senz Oct 2015 #19
Interesting. The nasty attacks on BS and supporters as unconcerned @ social justice issues riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #20
Do not ever forget Hillary's vs. Bernie's response to the BLM question senz Oct 2015 #21

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)
2. I love seeing people having a good time.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:33 AM
Oct 2015

And that, apparently, is your standard for a racial justice platform.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
5. Are you saying Hillary thinks PoC are just there to entertain her?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:56 AM
Oct 2015


Seriously though, you think that's a racial justice platform?

Bernblu

(441 posts)
4. I'm surprised that she doesn't have one by now but do Hillary voters even care?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:41 AM
Oct 2015

I suspect they were just using Black Lives Matter to blast Bernie in the summer but now you never hear about it regarding Hillary. This shows the were just using the issue against Bernie to try to prevent him from making inroads into the AA and Latinos communities.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
8. The BLM groups that met with Clinton & Co have not been very pleased with their meetings
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:53 AM
Oct 2015

So it's suddenly not on the top of Clinton & Co's priority list.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
15. And now the people who called BLM a Soros/Big Pharma/Palin group
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:06 AM
Oct 2015

are the movement's best friends since criticism of Clinton came about.

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
16. How would "they" be able to do that?! Do you really think most Americans are paying attention right.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:27 AM
Oct 2015

... now!?

Sanders numbers are low among PoC because of a lack of a relationship

Response to Luminous Animal (Original post)

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
11. To be honest plans from a President don't mean shit if
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:58 AM
Oct 2015

The Congress isn't going to address the issue and spend money and if the Congress stays in the hands of the rethugs and Sanders or Clinton get elected nothing is going to change

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
17. I'm betting she'll get with her good friends....
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:38 AM
Oct 2015

...in the Private Prison industry and work something out right after taking office.

askew

(1,464 posts)
18. O'Malley has the best criminal justice platform.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:00 PM
Oct 2015

He rightly includes how to untangle the immigration system from the criminal justice system.

https://martinomalley.com/policy/criminal-justice/

Hillary is silent as usual and let's face it her supporters don't care. They want to back a winner and don't care that she's lied, flip-flopped on issues, or just flat out refuses to give us specifics. Nothing is going to change that.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
19. When she needs a policy position, she pays a staffer to write one up.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:16 PM
Oct 2015

It goes like this: the big banks pay H, then H pays her staffers, her staffers write up some policies. So ... her policies are paid for by the big banks. Just like everything else.

That's "presidential."

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
20. Interesting. The nasty attacks on BS and supporters as unconcerned @ social justice issues
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:31 PM
Oct 2015

garner thousands of views and hundreds of recs.

While this thread languishes after 12+ hours...

You'd think if those screaming loudest were really concerned @ social justice as their primary issue, Hillary's glaring omission would make this OP light up like a wildfire.

Yet, virtual crickets here.

Do they genuinely care about the issue, or is the real goal to smear Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Pretty damn ugly and unfair.

K&R Luminous Animal. I for one, care deeply about the BLM movement and social justice and see Hillary's silence here as troubling.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
21. Do not ever forget Hillary's vs. Bernie's response to the BLM question
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:51 PM
Oct 2015

in the debate.

Hillary couldn't even get the words out. Bernie said "Black lives matter" and then spoke about Sandra Bland.

Hillary probably didn't know who Sandra Bland was. The photo in my sig line is of Bernie with Sandra's mother and sister -- days or weeks before the debate.

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