"Two Prominent Black Intellectuals Just Delivered More Bad News for Clinton"
By Pema Levy / Motherjones
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A much stronger rebuke of Clinton came from Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, who blasted the former secretary of state in an essay published Wednesday on the website of The Nation titled "Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote." In it, Alexander argued that the economic and criminal justice policies of the Bill Clinton administration, from the 1994 crime bill to welfare reform in 1996, were devastating to African Americans—and that Hillary Clinton was a force in that administration whose role should be scrutinized and whose current positions on criminal justice and racial equality are not strong enough.
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It's a good read.....
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/two-prominent-black-intellectuals-just-came-out-bernie-sanders
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But if I were to attempt to explain it to a child I might say something like:
"See, child, people wear blinders that make them unable to see anything but their own viewpoints, and when confronted with anything that challenges them, they often hide or pretend not to notice the glaring inconsistencies that illuminate their hypocrisies."
Ah, well... I guess that might be a bit verbose for most children, but I hope you see what I mean.
If not, just let me know and I will try to simplify it.
