2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders exposed Democrats racial rift [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Can't veto everything and still expect to ever get concessions on the budget or other policy points. Compromise is the only way to roll. And FYI? The black community was in favor of most of those policies we hate in hindsight. Full stop. We, the black comminity PRESSURED the Clintons to create that crime bill. He OWED us his presidency. He did work with us in crafiting it. He could not tell us no and expect a second term. We were tired of winos and crackheads and rapers and drug dealers and home invasion robberies and dead bodies on the corner and gangbangers raping our daughters on the way to school and our familygetting addicted to crack and dropping off addicted babies to our doorsteps, etc.. Those who did not live that life can look down upon us from their ivory towers and point fingers. Those dead bodies were not on your corners. Those crackheads were not stealing your grandmas SS check. Those crying addicted babies not in your house. You do realize that we finally got rehabs from these deals we made with Bill? That the crime went down? That LA stopped being the muder capital? Fewer gangs? Fewer innocent bystanders killed in the fross fire? More drug education?
I went to more funerals than I can count in my life. Things are better now. I watched fifteen year old boys being planted in the dirt. Conforted friend in sixth grade who had been raped by superpredators. You all know nothing about that life but try to stand in judgement on what we really needed. That crime bill did get killers and rapers and robbers and vilent people out of our neighborhoods. We don't LIKE CRIME!!! We are the ones who suffer the consequences of allowing people who are violent, of drug cartels, gangs and addicts, to run wild and commit crimes AGAINST US. Who do you think they were robbing? Killing? Selling crack to? US, NOT YOU.