The title of the article is:
The Clinton Legacy Is Black Impoverishment
But then goes on to state:
When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, urban black communities across America were suffering from economic collapse. Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs had vanished as factories moved overseas in search of cheaper labor, a new plantation. Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.
Unemployment rates among young black men had quadrupled as the rate of industrial employment plummeted. Crime rates spiked in inner-city communities that had been dependent on factory jobs, while hopelessness, despair and crack addiction swept neighborhoods that had once been solidly working-class. Millions of black folks—many of whom had fled Jim Crow segregation in the South with the hope of obtaining decent work in Northern factories—were suddenly trapped in racially segregated, jobless ghettos.
Interesting contradiction
But Ben Jealous breaks it down further:
Bush Sr. was an obvious oligarch, not to mention his connections with CIA operations.
At that time it was Bush Sr or Bill Clinton
But let's see about Obama:
The Expansion of Black American Misery under Barack Obama’s Watch
by Dr. Reginald Clark
Black folks are not only far worse off “since 2009 under President Obama’s economic and job creation policies” – Africans Americans are the
only group that “has taken a definitive step
backwards since then.” The main reason: “lack of attention to employment in urban and rural geographic areas where Blacks reside.”
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Regardless...
If one had to cross a "lake of fire" and had these as options:
A) "wooden boat"
B) "metal boat"
Which would one choose?
Think about it in more practical terms... this is a lake of fire, something is not going to go as planned.
- The wood could survive the journey, but potentially catch on fire as well as oneself
- The metal will be more durable, but one would probably be sizzling like bacon in it
One would say... have to find better designs after surviving the journey, and not using the same options to decide from.
But when we see many still arguing over the "wooden boat" or the "metal boat", should others feel guilty about not wanting any part of that debate?
Boyd Watkins sums this up nicely below...
"Pay attention to this during the pResidential election... Democrats tend to come around and be very sensitive to black people typically when it's time to get elected and they want to stand up for your "voting rights", they want to defend your "voting rights". So what they'll do is they'll go to churches and they'll evoke all this emotional imagery, and they'll say things like 'well back when we marched in Selma people died so we can have the right to vote we're not going to let the Republicans take away your right to vote...' well, think about that for a second, why do you think they care so much about protecting your voting rights?
It's because they want you to show up and vote for them"
Notice Sanders talks about the "street corner" children, and people in the congregation say "THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT"
Bernie Sanders attends a church with other political officials, where pastor claims "ALL LIVES MATTER"
Should Bernie, Cornell and the other black politicians have to defend their presence there?
Because "ALL LIVES MATTER" is racist to "BLACK LIVES MATTER"
I mean this pastor just said "if you're wrong, you're wrong".... this is not the narrative that we want is it?
It's White is wrong, Black is right... BLACK POWER!
If someone seriously petitions Cynthia McKinney to back and run with Sanders, then like I said before... I could dig it.
Otherwise, pick a boat or stay out of the lake.
