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Sun Aug 14, 2016, 01:42 PM Aug 2016

Clinton and Kaine Are Challenging White Americans on Racial Issues

In their speeches on racial issues, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have made an argument that President Obama rarely has: white Americans in particular need to change their views and perspectives to fix the nation's racial problems.

"We white Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day," Clinton said last month at the NAACP's annual convention.

She added, "We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility rather than assume that our experiences are everyone's experiences. We all need to try as best we can to walk in one another's shoes, to imagine what it would be like to sit our son or daughter down and have the talk about how carefully they need to act around police because the slightest wrong move could get them hurt or even killed."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/clinton-kaine-are-challenging-white-americans-racial-issues-n628531

You all know that if President Obama tried to speak out on it, many would be in a tizzy.

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