Seven Ways Hillary Clinton’s Policies Will Help Black Families

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B. Scott ‏@lovebscott Feb 22
7 Ways @HillaryClinton’s Policies will Help Black Families http://www.lovebscott.com/news/7-ways-hillary-clintons-policies-will-help-black-families-beyond-income-inequality-and-criminal-justice-reform …

Here are just 7 of the ways as president she will improve lives for Black families—beyond working against income inequality and reforming our criminal justice system.

1. Fight to make sure everyone can access reproductive rights

People (besides Hillary, who talks about this all the time) don’t bring this up often enough: Reproductive rights are an economic issue, and when access to abortion is cut off, women of color are hurt the most. Access to birth control and abortion are so important to the Black community. Hillary Clinton will do more than protect these rights, she’ll fight to expand them by doing things like repealing the Hyde to expand access to critical health services.

2. Get America’s gun problem under control

Guns are the leading cause of death for young Black men. Each year, more young Black men are killed from gun violence than die from the next nine leading causes of death—combined. Hillary will stand up to the gun lobby, and work to build on President Obama’s efforts to keep gun dealers from flooding our streets with illegal guns..

3. Make sure the environment we live in isn’t literally toxic

It’s 2016. We really shouldn’t need to still say that clean water is a basic human right. But we all saw what happened in Flint, and we all know that Flint is not alone. Black children are TWICE as likely to suffer from asthma. TWICE. Because the communities we live in are polluted without consequence. As president, Hillary will reduce air pollution, work to remove toxins (like lead) from the environment, fix our infrastructure, and clean up polluted toxic areas.

4. Support small business—specifically, small businesses owned by Black women

Black women are the fastest-growing group of women entrepreneurs, and Hillary will make sure that group continues to grow. Her policy focuses specifically on providing access to capital—which will help empower more Black women to start their own companies and become financially independent.

5. End violence against trans* women of color

Trans* women of color are disproportionately targeted by discrimination, harassment, and violence. In addition to working for LGBT equality across the board, Hillary will specifically address transgender violence by making it easier to report hate crimes accurately, training law enforcement officers to treat trans* women with fairness and respect, and directing the government to collect better data on crimes against trans* women, so that we can study and begin to stop this epidemic.

6. Invest in early childhood education

Our children cannot succeed in this world if they don’t get off to good start. Hillary will double our investment in Early Head Start and ensure that every single four year old in America has access to quality pre-K.

7. Put $25 billion into supporting HBCUs and Minority-Serving Institutions..

Do I even need to talk about why this is important? Our universities are in trouble, and many have been on the verge of closing for years. Hillary understands the importance of making sure that these institutions can survive and thrive, so that our children and grandchildren will be able to have the experience of attending a college that is filled with—and run by—people who look like them.

Hillary Clinton is truly committed to breaking down all of the barriers, big and small, that are holding us back. She’s been doing it for decades—I didn’t even get to talk about all of the work she did BEFORE becoming a senator. We deserve a president who understands that our community cares about more than income inequality and mass incarceration reform—Hillary Clinton will be that president.

If you want to learn more about Hillary’s racial justice plan, click here. If you want to REALLY learn more (like, read a 13 page fact sheet about how she’ll get it done) click here

read: http://www.lovebscott.com/news/7-ways-hillary-clintons-policies-will-help-black-families-beyond-income-inequality-and-criminal-justice-reform

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Hillary Clinton Proposes Plan to Dismantle Systemic Racism
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1. How will she get any of this through a Republican Congress?

Isn't that the question we're supposed to ask about any plans?

With a Republican Congress this stuff is just as pie in the sky as anything Senator Sanders is proposing, right?

And that's not getting into the fact that this list reads like the infamous "list" of what Obama accomplished which is filled with lots of "pledges to" and "committing to" and "fighting to" which are vague, nebulous and can never be held accountable for failing to do.

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4. She won't have any trouble.

Hillary and her staff work behind the scenes to get things done. These are things you never see, things like getting Republicans on board for things that are important.

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5. The same way Obama did?

Or does she have some kind of magic wand that he doesn't.

Specifics please. Who will she likely get on board? How? What you wrote could be described as the intent of any Democratic president faced with a Republican congress. They will try that, they will fail.

We're told she has more concrete and specific, and less pie in the sky ways of getting things done. Let's hear 'em.

Otherwise it's just as much starry-eyed dreaming and fantasy as Sanders is being accused of peddling.

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9. Hillary will be able to

get it all done. God forbid if a Republican wins because they will be able to do whatever they want. Only Bernie will fall directly on his face and never be able to accomplish anything at all....so they say

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2. Classic Hillary weasel words. nt

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3. Lots of words,not much in specifics.

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6. her support

of for-profit prisons, "free trade" agreements, a surveillance state, predatory lending, draconian drug laws, the DP, inadequate minimum wage increase etc. belie her "concern" for POC. She's trying to re-brand herself but I'm not buying it.

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7. Vague on specificity and not likely to get passed through a Republican Congress...

Right? Right???

All else being equal, Bernie's plans would do more.

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8. Isn't she supposed to be the "realistic" candidate?

1. She's willing to "compromise" on abortion.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/29/hillary_clinton_i_could_compromise_on_abortion_if_it_included_exceptions_for_mothers_health.html

2. Requires Congress. No plan to get Republicans to vote for it.

3. Requires Congress. No plan to get Republicans to vote for it.

4. Requires Congress. No plan to get Republicans to vote for it.

5. Requires Congress. No plan to get Republicans to vote for it.

6. Requires Congress. No plan to get Republicans to vote for it.

7. Requires Congress. No plan to get Republicans to vote for it.