What Could a Candidate Do, Say, Promise, Commit to To Win Your Vote?

[qwlauren35]

Obviously, this is a question for African-American DU folks...

I read an article about Sanders reaching out to the AA voter bloc. He said slavery was awful and police brutality is a problem. Somehow, that didn't speak to me. I want the candidates to talk about skewed unemployment, employment discrimination, effects of historic housing discrimination and the effect on skewed wealth distribution, skewed incarceration rates, skewed police profiling and arrests, discriminatory sentencing, harsh sentences for non-violent offenders, effects of white privilege and institutionalized racism, growing overt signs of racial intolerance, backlash, disintegration of voting rights and effects of gerrymandering, white ignorance and apathy on racial issues and the impact of historical discrimination from the 20th century (not just "slavery"!!!)

What topics would you want the candidates to speak about, what commitments would you want them to make to show that they truly want our vote?

[randys1]

1. "I am not a republican." Is what they could say (I am not AfAm, but that is my main prerequisite)

[qwlauren35]

3. I saw this somewhere else.

And it made me think of you.

sit down. We'll send for you when we need you. We'll tell you what to say, who to vote for, what to think, when you get here. Your needs are of no consequence. Even your children are disposable...AKA there are still those that think the right outcome was produced with the Trayvon Martin trial.

And, if you don't behave...well, you'll get republicans.

[randys1]

4. Yep...well illustrated

[Number23]

2. Racial discrimination in prison sentencing is huge for me. As is racial discrimination in housing

And I know that a president can only do so much about racism, but the next president needs to read the DOJ's report on the police environment in Ferguson and do something about that shit yesterday. And not just in Ferguson, nation wide.

Obama's DOJ has done alot of work on voting rights and other discrimination that black folks have to deal with. And I agree with you that talking about "apologizing for slavery" is fine, but it doesn't grab me either.