Hillary Clinton said it. Black lives matter. No hedge.
I'm posting the entire article, to truncate it with just the link does not do it justice. She understands it, and she WILL do something about it once she's elected President.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/20/hillary-clinton-said-it-black-lives-matter-no-hedge/
Hillary Clinton said it. Black lives matter. No hedge.
By Janell Ross July 20 at 5:17 PM
She said it. She really did. Actually she typed it. But still, there was no hedge.
In a live Facebook Q&A set up primarily for average people interested in asking Hillary Clinton questions, some reporters popped in too. Ok, a lot of reporters popped in, since Clinton hasn't exactly been too open about taking questions from reporters. Among the online attendees was the Post's own, Wesley Lowery. Lowery asked Clinton this question and got this response:
"Black lives matter." With those three little words, Clinton acknowledged that there are myriad ways that race continues to shape life in America that have almost no relationship to pocketbooks, educational credentials or class. There's ample evidence that income, education and the like do not deliver the same results in black lives that they do in others.
After three successive summers filled with news about the nation's rocky racial landscape, it's probably fair to say that at least some of the people running for office in 2016 expect questions about the way the police do their work and how the country responds when something goes wrong.
But for a group of activists who first organized loosely online under the hashtag #blacklivesmatter in the hours after a jury acquitted George Zimmerman on all charges in the death of unarmed, black teen, Trayvon Martin, just getting someone in the 2016 field -- especially the heavy favorite to be the Democratic nominee -- to acknowledge that black lives are in particular peril is pretty huge.
Of course, the journey from point A to point B has not been anything close to easy.
In June, Clinton went to a Missouri forum, held in a church not far from the place where another unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer whom a grand jury later opted not to indict. At the time, she said this: "All lives matter.”
It was, whether intentional or not, the phrase to which opponents of the Black Lives Matter movement have most often turned.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, has offered up his own assessment of the singular way that race shapes policing in the United States and the relationship between economic isolation and continued racial inequality.
But Sanders has also used that same phrase, "All lives matter," when pressed. And, this weekend, when activists in Phoenix deeply concerned with the way that police do their work in communities of color stormed into a liberal gathering, Sanders wasn't as forceful on the issue as Clinton.
"Black lives of course matter," he said. "But I've spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights. If you don't want me to be here, that's okay."
His I'll-just-take-my-ball-and-go-home comment, his irritated body language and decision to speak over protesters didn't do him any favors. There was no pivoting to his ideas around police or criminal justice reforms.
Apparently, all that wasn't enough to encourage former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley to shift course. In fact, O'Malley said this at the same gathering: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter." He later apologized.
So, Hillary Clinton, habitual avoider of direct contact with reporters has said on the record: "Black lives matter." She didn't add qualifiers. She didn't hedge. That is indeed a moment worth noting.
And, perhaps a moment that came in the nick of time. Black Lives Matter groups from around the country are set to convene in Cleveland this weekend to talk tactics, platform and strategy.
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Now, you'll pretend you already knew this but because you lacked the knowledge of the JJ Dinner, it's unlikely you know this.
The term 'yellow dog' was coined by Abe Lincoln, ridiculing those who made Jackson president...twice.
It became popular in the 1920s, in the SOUTH, denoting someone who would vote for the Democrat no matter what. 
You're welcome.
With actions if not words.
Not that that matters, of course. 
