Hillary Clinton to deliver major speech on racism

[DemocratSinceBirth]

In a high-profile speech in Harlem on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is expected to address the issue of systemic racism, and offer solutions for how to break down the barriers that hold back African American families.
The speech is part of Clinton’s effort in recent days— as she closes in on the South Carolina primary and turns her attention toward more diverse March states — to show that she views racism and discrimination as stand-alone problems in American in need of their own solutions. Her approach appears designed to highlight the contrast with her chief rival Bernie Sanders, who so far in his campaign has mainly addressed racism through the lens of economic inequality.

In her speech, which she is scheduled to deliver after a closed-door meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton, National Urban League President Marc Morial and NAACP President Cornell Brooks earlier in the day, Clinton is expected to call for “new investments in job creation to ending redlining to ensuring equal pay for women of color to ending the school-to-prison

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-speech-racism-harlem-219311#ixzz40LqzLbRO

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I will be the bigger man, take the high road, and not respond in kind.

Maybe something good can come out of our poisoned, albeit short, exchange. Please recommend my thread:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/118740490


Thank you in advance.


With love,
DSB

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

Very important.

[NorthCarolina]

3. I thought her support by PoC was in the bag?

What happened?

[uponit7771]

9. Seeing Sanders is losing to her by 40 in sc ... it hasn't gone anywhere... bombshell

... data came out today.

Black millineals are for HRC...

What groups does that leave Sanders?

tia

[BainsBane]

13. I hope Clyburn endorses her.

His is an important endorsement.

[grasswire]

5. internal polling must be very bad nt

[Iliyah]

6. K & R

[stranger81]

7. Funny -- the proposals she's expected to call for sound -- gasp -- economic.

New investments in job creation? Equal pay for women of color?

She just doesn't get it. Not good enough, Hillary!

[TCJ70]

11. Don't worry. Her "imperfect relationship" will carry...

...her through, for some reason.

[lunamagica]

8. K&R.

[Plappergeist]

10. Will her accent be "black enough" this time?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. What does...

Plappergeist
10. Will her accent be "black enough" this time?
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What does a black accent sound like?


Please cite specific examples.

Thank you in advance.

[Plappergeist]

14. Hunt up that video and you'll hear what *Hillary* thinks a black accent is. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I am interested in what you think a black accent is since you brought it up.

Please be specific.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I am interested in what you think a black accent is since you brought it up.

Please be specific.

[Armstead]

17. Didn't see much that's different from what Sanders is saying

A few gimmicks like a "climate pipeline" (which isn't much different than what schools already try to do) but same basic message and goals as Bernie -- including economic empowerment, which some here claim is irrelevant to racism.