The mothers of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis make poignant Clinton endorsements

[MrWendel]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-mothers-trayvon-martin-jordan-davis-make-poignant-clinton-endorsements



In a campaign season that is starting to become overwhelmed with a proliferation of endorsements, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has recently captured two of the most poignant – the mothers of Travyon Martin and Jordan Davis.

The 2012 shooting deaths of both unarmed African-American teenagers in Florida helped galvanize the “Black Lives Matter” movement nationwide and made unlikely activists out of their grieving mothers, Sybrina Fulton and Lucia McBath. In two separate op-eds, the women have thrown their weight behind the 2016 candidacy of Clinton, who has made her staunch advocacy for more effective gun control legislation a centerpiece of her campaign for the Democratic nomination.

In her Jan. 11 op-ed for CNN, Fulton wrote “In spending some time with [Hillary Clinton] in person, I also found a mother and a grandmother who truly heard me, and understood the depth of my loss.” She also praised Clinton’s advocacy for the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban, as well as her opposition to the controversial immunity laws, which protect gun distributors from liability.

“She knew all the statistics. But like so many, I’ve long since grown numb to the numbers. So instead, we talked about Trayvon and other families who have lost a loved one to gun violence. We talked about all of the wishes and hopes we had for their lives. And knowing we can never get them back, we discussed how to prevent more moms from losing their sons to gun violence,” wrote Fulton, who added that she believed the former secretary of state would not just uphold President Obama’s recent gun control executive orders, but expand on them.

Lucia McBath has echoed some of the same sentiments in an op-ed published Tuesday on BET.com. She also cited Clinton’s willingness to repeal the so-called “Charleston loophole,” which has been linked to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church massacre suspect Dylann Roof’s legal purchase of a weapon, as a significant factor in determining her vote.

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1. Honk Honk

Pretty soon these folks will be thrown under the bus here.

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2. better lock down their facebook pages

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3. K&R

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4. DU rec...nt

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