They are scared. I am scared. I am learning more about police technique than I ever wanted to know. There have been more heinous deaths of African American deaths by police. I wish President Obama would invite representatives of "Black Lives Matter" to a summit at the White House. Perhaps there needs to be a summit with Hispanic citizens and Undocumented as well.
Change has to take place at the community level. Whatever can be done to facilitate that should be done. I think every USA city and town should review laws that create their own financial hardship and jail. There needs to be reviews how well minorities are doing in schools and neighborhoods. Cities and towns need to remove any laws that cause discrimination. There is nothing to say any punitive laws have been intentionally discriminatory or harsh, but, to not conduct a review would be exactly that.
All the Democratic candidates for President are sensitive to the issues our minorities face. Perhaps other opposition candidates should be called out for their bias.
October 30, 2015
By Stevens Peoples and Bill Barrow
Atlanta (AP) — Shouting over protesters, (click here) Hillary Rodham Clinton promised black Americans she would address systemic racism, and if elected, follow in the footsteps of her predecessor, the country's first black president.
The Democratic presidential front-runner outlined her plans for criminal justice reform — a key component of her push to court African-American voters — facing what was supposed to be a friendly audience at Clark Atlanta University, a historically black institution. Yet just a few minutes into her remarks she was interrupted by protesters from the Black Lives Matters movement.
They sang and chanted for nearly 12 minutes several feet from the podium as Clinton tried to shout over them. Rep. John Lewis, a hero in the civil rights movement, urged them to stop, as did the musician Usher.
The group of fewer than 10 protesters eventually left the college gymnasium only after the crowd of more than 2,000, most of them young African Americans, forcefully chanted, "Let her talk!"...
Change has to take place at the community level. Whatever can be done to facilitate that should be done. I think every USA city and town should review laws that create their own financial hardship and jail. There needs to be reviews how well minorities are doing in schools and neighborhoods. Cities and towns need to remove any laws that cause discrimination. There is nothing to say any punitive laws have been intentionally discriminatory or harsh, but, to not conduct a review would be exactly that.
All the Democratic candidates for President are sensitive to the issues our minorities face. Perhaps other opposition candidates should be called out for their bias.
October 30, 2015
By Stevens Peoples and Bill Barrow
Atlanta (AP) — Shouting over protesters, (click here) Hillary Rodham Clinton promised black Americans she would address systemic racism, and if elected, follow in the footsteps of her predecessor, the country's first black president.
The Democratic presidential front-runner outlined her plans for criminal justice reform — a key component of her push to court African-American voters — facing what was supposed to be a friendly audience at Clark Atlanta University, a historically black institution. Yet just a few minutes into her remarks she was interrupted by protesters from the Black Lives Matters movement.
They sang and chanted for nearly 12 minutes several feet from the podium as Clinton tried to shout over them. Rep. John Lewis, a hero in the civil rights movement, urged them to stop, as did the musician Usher.
The group of fewer than 10 protesters eventually left the college gymnasium only after the crowd of more than 2,000, most of them young African Americans, forcefully chanted, "Let her talk!"...
