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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts) Sun Feb 14, 2016, 02:53 PM Feb 2016

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Michelle Alexander: Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote & The New Jim Crow

I'm posting these suspecting they've been posted already, but I'm posting just in case
anyone missed these, and to ask ... damn ... for the life of me, how does can anyone
who genuinely cares about the plight of PoC & the poor continue to support putting the
Clintons back in the WH? With friends like these ...

The New Jim Crow: How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste.
By Michelle Alexander * March 9, 2010 * The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/new-jim-crow/

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote: From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.
By Michelle Alexander * Feb. 10,2016 * The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/

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Michelle Alexander: Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote & The New Jim Crow (Original Post) 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 OP

Thank you. DamnYankeeInHouston Feb 2016 #1

K N R Faux pas Feb 2016 #2

Michelle Alexander for Supreme Court Dems to Win Feb 2016 #3

It's amazing... TTUBatfan2008 Feb 2016 #4

Minority voterrs are just like most other voters in that-- eridani Feb 2016 #5

DamnYankeeInHouston

(1,365 posts)

1. Thank you.

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 02:59 PM

Feb 2016

Faux pas

(14,671 posts)

2. K N R

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 03:31 PM

Feb 2016

Dems to Win

(2,161 posts)

3. Michelle Alexander for Supreme Court

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 03:47 PM

Feb 2016

We need a modern day Thurgood Marshall on the court.

TTUBatfan2008

(3,623 posts)

4. It's amazing...

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 03:58 PM

Feb 2016

...that they get such a free pass on this from so many minority voters. Maybe it's a "devil you know" situation.

eridani

(51,907 posts)

5. Minority voterrs are just like most other voters in that--

Reply to TTUBatfan2008 (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:22 AM

Feb 2016

--they are not policy wonks or political junkies.

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