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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary
Cornel West has it XD
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Why Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary
'This election is not a mere campaign; it is a crusade to resurrect democracyKing-stylein our time.'
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/why-brother-bernie-better-black-people-sister-hillary
The conventional wisdom holds that, in the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton is the candidate who will win over African-American votersthat her rival, Bernie Sanders, performed well in Iowa and won New Hampshire on account of those states disproportionate whiteness, and that Clintons odds are better in the upcoming contests in South Carolina and Nevada, two highly diverse states.
But in fact, when it comes to advancing Dr. Kings legacy, a vote for Clinton not only falls far short of the mark; it prevents us from giving new life to Kings legacy. Instead, it is Sanders who has championed that legacy in word and in deed for 50 years. This election is not a mere campaign; it is a crusade to resurrect democracyKing-stylein our time. In 2016, Sanders is the one leading that crusade.
Clinton has touted the fact that, in 1962, she met King after seeing him speak, an experience she says allowed her to appreciate Kings moral clarity. Yet two years later, as a high schooler, Clinton campaigned vigorously for Barry Goldwatera figure King called morally indefensible owing to his staunch opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And she attended the Republican convention in 1968! Meanwhile,at this same moment in history, Sanders was getting arrested for protesting segregation in Chicago and marching in Washington with none other than King itself. Thats real moral clarity.
Needless to say, some moral clarity set in as Clintons politics moved to the left in her college years. After graduating from law school, she joined the Children's Defense Fund as a staff attorney, working under the great King disciple, Marian Wright Edelman, with whom she struck up a friendship. Yet that relationship soured. This came after Hillary Clintonin defending her husbands punitive crime bill and its drastic escalation of the mass incarceration of poor people, especially black and brown peoplereferred callously to gang-related youth as superpredators. And it was Bill Clinton who signed a welfare reform bill that all but eliminated the safety net for poor women and childrena Machiavellian attempt to promote right-wing policies in order to neutralize the Republican Party. In protest, Peter Edelman, Marians courageous husband, resigned from his assistant secretary post at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Clintons neoliberal economic policiesprincipally, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall banking legislation, apparently under the influence of Wall Streets moneyhave also hurt Kings cause. The Clinton Machinecelebrated by the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, white and blackdid produce economic growth. But it came at the expense of poor people (more hopeless and prison-bound) and working people (also decimated by the Clinton-sponsored North American Free Trade Agreement).
Bill apologized for the effects of his crime bill, after devastating thousands of black and poor lives. Will Hillary apologize for supporting the same measures?
'This election is not a mere campaign; it is a crusade to resurrect democracyKing-stylein our time.'
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/why-brother-bernie-better-black-people-sister-hillary
The conventional wisdom holds that, in the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton is the candidate who will win over African-American votersthat her rival, Bernie Sanders, performed well in Iowa and won New Hampshire on account of those states disproportionate whiteness, and that Clintons odds are better in the upcoming contests in South Carolina and Nevada, two highly diverse states.
But in fact, when it comes to advancing Dr. Kings legacy, a vote for Clinton not only falls far short of the mark; it prevents us from giving new life to Kings legacy. Instead, it is Sanders who has championed that legacy in word and in deed for 50 years. This election is not a mere campaign; it is a crusade to resurrect democracyKing-stylein our time. In 2016, Sanders is the one leading that crusade.
Clinton has touted the fact that, in 1962, she met King after seeing him speak, an experience she says allowed her to appreciate Kings moral clarity. Yet two years later, as a high schooler, Clinton campaigned vigorously for Barry Goldwatera figure King called morally indefensible owing to his staunch opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And she attended the Republican convention in 1968! Meanwhile,at this same moment in history, Sanders was getting arrested for protesting segregation in Chicago and marching in Washington with none other than King itself. Thats real moral clarity.
Needless to say, some moral clarity set in as Clintons politics moved to the left in her college years. After graduating from law school, she joined the Children's Defense Fund as a staff attorney, working under the great King disciple, Marian Wright Edelman, with whom she struck up a friendship. Yet that relationship soured. This came after Hillary Clintonin defending her husbands punitive crime bill and its drastic escalation of the mass incarceration of poor people, especially black and brown peoplereferred callously to gang-related youth as superpredators. And it was Bill Clinton who signed a welfare reform bill that all but eliminated the safety net for poor women and childrena Machiavellian attempt to promote right-wing policies in order to neutralize the Republican Party. In protest, Peter Edelman, Marians courageous husband, resigned from his assistant secretary post at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Clintons neoliberal economic policiesprincipally, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall banking legislation, apparently under the influence of Wall Streets moneyhave also hurt Kings cause. The Clinton Machinecelebrated by the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, white and blackdid produce economic growth. But it came at the expense of poor people (more hopeless and prison-bound) and working people (also decimated by the Clinton-sponsored North American Free Trade Agreement).
Bill apologized for the effects of his crime bill, after devastating thousands of black and poor lives. Will Hillary apologize for supporting the same measures?
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Why Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary (Original Post)
pinebox
Feb 2016
OP
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)1. Falling on deaf ears
They will be here soon to go after West for not being in Obama's pocket.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)3. "worse than waving the Confederate flag! eeeee!'
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)2. K & R!