2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrayvon Martin's Mother Explains Why She's Voting For Hillary Clinton
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of gun violence victim Trayvon Martin, explained in a CNN op-ed on Monday why Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has her vote.
"She sees what I see: a criminal justice system that is not always just. A system that has contributed to creating a reality where just selling cigarettes, playing loud music, looking at a cop the wrong way or walking home from the store are now activities that can get you killed," Fulton wrote.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)This was gun violence at its worse and this guy continues to get his hands on guns. He has mental issues.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)this woman, who has to live the rest of her life with the trauma of losing her young son to gun violence, will come to recognize that Bernie Sanders is our best candidate for POTUS in 2016.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It's not inferior to Sanders take.
Response to NCTraveler (Reply #5)
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)Ms. Fulton's words. She could not be more correct when she says, "[the] criminal justice system . . . is not . . . just. [The] system . . . has contributed to creating a reality where just selling cigarettes, playing loud music, looking at a cop the wrong way or walking home from the store are now activities that can get you killed" In fact, truer words have never been spoken.
Here, though, is the rub. Bernie Sanders has said almost exactly the same thing AND Hillary NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL. Hillary saying that Michael Brown was MURDERED, that Tamir Rice was MURDERED, that Eric Garner was MURDERED, that Sandra Bland was MURDERED will upset the suburbanites she is counting on in the general election.
As a matter of fact, let's have a little test. If 10 KNOWN DU Hillary supporters will come on here and say that all of these people of color were murdered by the cops, I will self-delete this post.
Ready, set, go . . .
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It doesn't say what you think it does.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)but my fear is that Hillary supporters will be content to make smug innuendos as opposed to really discussing the substantial policy differences between Hillary and Bernie on the subject of systemic racism, particularly in the criminal justice system. They have made a good start at that already.