qwlauren35 (2,556 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251403182
Will Hillary be Good for African-Americans?
I saw this article and it looked at my concerns and showed Clinton's record on the issues that affect African-Americans. It doesn't look good.
I don't have a lot of other choices, but I don't think Hillary Clinton has my best interests at heart.
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2015/04/12/hillary-clinton-good-for-white-feminism/
Here’s a very incomplete, yet still telling, run-down on Clinton’s résumé to date:
Despite trumpeting her work on behalf of “mothers and children,†she and her husband worked to reduce federal assistance to women and children living in poverty. In her book, Living History, Clinton touts her role: “By the time Bill and I left the White House, welfare rolls had dropped 60 percent.†This 60% drop was not due to a 60% decrease in poverty. Instead, it was a reduction in federal benefits to those living in poverty, many of them working poor, like those employed at Wal-Mart.
Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart between 1986 and 1992, where she says she learned a lot from Sam Walton, and she remained silent while the corporation fought the unionization of its workers.
In Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, she notes that it was Hillary Clinton who lobbied Congress to expand the drug war and mass incarceration in ways that we continue to live with today, and that have a significantly more harmful impact on black and brown people than white people. According to The Drug Policy Alliance, people of color are much more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, convicted, harshly sentenced and saddled with a lifelong criminal record due to being unfairly targeted for drug law violations. Even though white people and people of color use drugs at about the same rates, it is black and brown people’s bodies that continue to fuel the machine of mass incarceration.
As Secretary of State, Clinton left a legacy that included both a hawkish inclination to recommend the use of military force coupled with “turning the state department into a machine for promoting U.S. business.†This does not bode well for black and brown people in other parts of the world, since the US is not likely to attack Western Europe under a (second) Clinton presidency, but some region of the world with people who do not have light-colored skin tones.
Words fail me.
Thinkingabout (11,741 posts)
3. What evidence do you have she does not advocate for civil rights and women's rights?
The DUmpmonkie posted a link to the article in the OP that lists the reasons. Did you read it?
Thinkingabout (11,741 posts)
7. Again, what evidence do you have Hillary has worked against civil rights or women's rights?
In her book, Living History, Clinton touts her role: “By the time Bill and I left the White House, welfare rolls had dropped 60 percent.†This 60% drop was not due to a 60% decrease in poverty. Instead, it was a reduction in federal benefits to those living in poverty, many of them working poor, like those employed at Wal-Mart.
Thinkingabout (11,741 posts)
2. Let me remind you of Hillary was marching and advocating for Civil Rights in her college days. Yes, there have been welfare reform, giving training to those in need so as to develop skills to be able to have jobs of the able bodied. I don't think Hillary wants to see someone have to rely on welfare but to better themselves and have an opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Do you have a problem with getting training so as to be able to provide for yourself?
qwlauren35 (2,556 posts)
6. Voting Rights is only one thing. African-Americans need a lot more than just "civil rights". As for "Welfare", notice that Obama has constantly extended the FoodStamp program. Very much the opposite of the Clinton effort to take people off of welfare.
The policy positions and legislative moves Hillary has made have hurt us. Maybe she will have a paradigm shift and reverse her positions on some of these things. At this point, it's early. And I am waiting to see what she will do to reach out to the black community. It would not be in her best interest if we stay at home.
Negro, you better STFU and get back to teh back of the buss!
Thinkingabout (11,741 posts)
8. At the time Hillary was marching for Civil Rights it was for the priviledge to sit at a lunch counter and eat, was for rights of blacks to go to what was all white universities, was the removal of a water fountain which said colored only or white only, for the right for blacks to get jobs where there was white only hired before and yes voting rights was a part of it. I am surprised this is not a known fact.
Uppity negro has been alerted on.
peacebird (8,650 posts)
4. She will support the wall street banks however, people not so much
Thinkingabout (11,741 posts)
9. Have you found this information in her voting record?
qwlauren35 (2,556 posts)
10. The examples of her voting record are in the article. I'm not sure why you keep bring up her marching instead of discussing the points in the article.
No HILbot is going to discuss the facts. The facts kill Hill.
Thinkingabout (11,741 posts)
13. I noticed you brought up the Walmart board but you failed to note she advocated For promotion of women. This is an example of her advocating for women yet left out, is this intentional?
craigmatic (3,709 posts)
14. I was just thinking the same thing the other day. I doubt she will. It's not like Obama has done much for us either come to think of it. If anything things have gotten worse for blacks as a result of whites being pissed off that he's in office.
yeah.... that's not the reason.
