Capehart: Why black voters remain in Hillary Clinton’s corner

[brer cat]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-black-voters-remain-in-hillary-clintons-corner/2016/02/25/7a86100a-da7d-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Jonathan Capehart gives a good perspective in this opinion in WAPO:

The third reason is perhaps the most important, because of how deeply it resonates with African Americans: Clinton openly talks about the necessary role that whites must play in healing and bridging the racial divide.

“Ending systemic racism requires contributions from all of us, especially those of us who haven’t experienced it ourselves,” she said in Harlem. “White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers that you face every day. We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility, rather than assume that our experiences are everyone’s experiences.”

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Do not underestimate how refreshing this is to African American ears. For generations, blacks have chafed at the notion that unpacking our nation’s racial baggage is a chore solely for them. That the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow are only their burdens to bear. That today’s whites are absolved from responsibility for helping to address the continuing consequences of yesterday’s offenses. For a potential president of the United States to acknowledge this and to do so from a knowing place — to demonstrate that she’s thought deeply about it and gets it — will elicit a ready chorus of “amen.”

[SunSeeker]

1. K & R

[William769]

2. Kick & very highly recommended!

[Cha]

3. Yes, Hillary's approach to healing the racial divide is very important, brer cat.

I'm so glad Jonathan Capehart is talking about it. It is vital for us to have a part in healing the division.

From you link.. First Reason for Remaining in her corner..

First, Obama. His approval rating among African Americans is 89 percent in the latest Gallup tracking poll. This explains why Clinton has left no daylight between herself and the man who bested her in 2008 and for whom she worked as secretary of state. And it explains why she highlights the many times that Sanders argued for a primary challenge to Obama in 2012.

I'm so glad Reason #1 is working out the way I thought it would early on.. it just makes so much sense. Hillary and the President came together for the good of the country and then starting working today.. they ended up having enormous respect for one another.

Bernie blew it when he accused her of pandering to get the Black Vote. Congressman James Clyburn calls him on it here.. and, he blew it when he cavalierly said the President should be primaried in 2012.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110755367

Mahalo, brer cat!

[NurseJackie]

4. Amen!

[stonecutter357]

5. Why black voters remain in Hillary Clinton’s corner

shit like this,http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511326372#post63

he called me a boy and has a racist rooster all in the same post .

[yallerdawg]

6. That meets "community standards"?

Exactly why I stay out of that community.

[DemonGoddess]

7. seriously???

I notice he never backtracked from it either

[stonecutter357]

9. I bet not one person on DU

I bet not one person on DU doesn't know foghorn leghorn is a racist.

[brer cat]

14. I simultaneously felt deep anger

and sadness reading that exchange. The complete tone-deafness and utter contempt shown there as well as the others DEMANDING that the AA community explain their voting choices, that call AA voters "low-information" voters or victims of Stockholm Syndrome, et cetera ad nauseam, suggest a moral as well as intellectual decadence that should not be given a voice in our party. That it comes from our self-described most "progressive" wing who want a revolution, to tear down our party and define new social reforms leaves me smh.

[Thinkingabout]

8. K & R, thanks for posting. Healing will never occur unless "all" are healed.

[Coolest Ranger]

10. Every time I question

them on what their candidate will do for my people, I can never get a straight answer. Instead they accuse me of being angry. Wouldn't you be angry if cops keep shooting and killing your people because they are black? Wouldn't you be angry if you are always being attacked on and off line? Hillary at least has a plan for my community and she's addressing every issue I am concerned about and there for she has my vote.

[brer cat]

15. + 1, Coolest Ranger.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Jonathan hits it out of the park. Besides that, we don't have to explain or justify who we prefer.

It is what it is. Others just have to deal with it.

[mcar]

12. K&R

[Gothmog]

13. K&R