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From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies that Bill Clinton enacted – and Hillary Clinton supported – decimated black America.
By: Michelle Alexander
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From the Mother Jones Article:
“ ‘I will be voting for Sen. Sanders,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates, a correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the 2015 National Book Award winner Between the World and Me …”
“ 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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My son wants an answer. He is 10 years old, and he wants me to tell him that he doesn’t need to worry. He is a black boy, rather sheltered, and knows little of the world beyond our safe, quiet neighborhood. His eyes are wide and holding my gaze, silently begging me to say: No, sweetheart, you have no need to worry. Most officers are nothing like Officer Wilson. They would not shoot you — or anyone — while you’re unarmed, running away or even toward them.
I am stammering.
Michelle Alexander, NYT “Telling My Son About Ferguson”
Crushing personal piece.
(via liberalsarecool)
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While I support the legalization of marijuana, this needs to be remembered.
Ht: Bob B