Hillary has strong Civil Rights credentials from long before she married Bill. She was active as a college student in Civil Rights movements and as a young lawyer in Civil Rights litigation and race testing.
Hillary Clinton cannot be pro civil rights as a college student because she was a CONSERVATIVE. She supported the 1964 campaign of Barry Goldwater who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and vowed to overturn it if he was elected president. Hillary would beg her parents to drive her to Goldwater rallies and she wasn't even old enough to vote in that election. Goldwater was a fucking crackpot libertarian who wanted to nuke half of the world... Hillary apparently feels the same way since she has been one of the sole forces fervently pushing for WWIII. Her civil rights credibility is a joke and a fiction.
She also was active with Marion Wright Eddelman in the Children's Defense Fund.
This keeps getting trotted out as some sort of physical proof that Hillary is a friend to the black community... and it's a crock of shit.
Hillary might have
once worked for Marian Wright Edelman but she conveniently turned her back on The Children's Defense Fund to score political points with her husband's opposition.
The progressive and children's advocate community considered Clinton's welfare reform a Draconian measure that would punish poor children if their moms didn't find work. The Clintons,
both of them, supported it, and Bill Clinton signed it into law.
Among those who ardently and eloquently opposed the Clinton "welfare reform" bill was Marian Wright Edelman. Her husband, Peter Edelman, quit his high-level job at the Department of Health and Human Services in protest when Bill Clinton signed the bill. He was deeply upset about what the legislation would do to helpless children.
Here's Marian Wright Edelman's own words about Hillary -
"Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are no friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were
for welfare reform, I am
for welfare reform, but we
need good jobs, we
need adequate work incentives, we
need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need health care, we
need transportation, we
need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we’ve got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of—a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline. A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who’s born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many children are sitting up—15,000, according to a recent congressional GAO study—are sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because their parents could not get mental health and health care in their community. This is an abomination."
She has earned her support from the black community. Hillary's problem is greed and corruption.
Sooo... a politician can be greedy and corrupt but somehow a friend to the black community? I will submit to you that a greedy and corrupt politician is only friends with MONEY & POWER. Corrupt and greedy politicians pander and cater to groups of voters ONLY to further enrich themselves... they are friends to nobody but themselves. Saying a corrupt and greedy politician is a friend to
any community over their own hunger for more wealth and power... is an oxymoron.
