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Sorry, but wealth inequality is also a big part of the problem. Being black in America is no picnic, being poor in America is no picnic; but poor and black? Heaven help you. Itâs really convenient for Hillary to wring her hands over race so she doesnât have to address growing wealth inequality; that might upset the people she hopes will fund her campaign.
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A very candid and timely speech. As much as many are already doing to Hillary Clinton what they did to Al Gore, ask yourself what a party-endorsed and beholden GOP candidate would do in the White House? I canât see a Republican even bothering to address any of the root issues raised here by Clinton.
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Her proposals are a start, but the real solution is jobs. Her âjob creatorâ friends on Wall Street need to pony up and create some of those jobs. BTW, I realize the only way for âjob creatorsâ to create jobs is for them to share a little of their wealth with American consumers so we can buy stuff.
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hard truths
Structural wreckage still standing from the '68 riots is a pretty hard truth.
She weighed in.
Who on the Republican sided has similarly acted?
Whomever gets around to it will have to square the circle of
Constituency
Reality
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Actually, if you read the speech, she hit hard on issues of poverty (https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/its-time-end-era-mass-incarceration/), and she has hardly been avoiding income inequality as an issue as she gears up her campaign.
As Greg Sargent put it, âSo it turns out Hillary did basically say what Obama said yesterday; she leaned into jobs/opportunity on riots.â Or as DKos out it, âClinton returned repeatedly to the economic inequality that both drives unequal justice and that results from it.â
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Who exactly are these âjob creator friendsâ you say sheâs trying not to upset?
Are you asking us to accept that all the Wall Street and Big Corp America backers of Mitt Romney and the Republican party are backing HER now?
You know what they say about extraordinary claims âŚ
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I donât know, but she gets lots and lots of money from hedge fund managers and others on Wall Street. Arenât they her friends? Donât they call themselves âjob creatorsâ who need special tax treatment to make sure they create jobs?
Actually, Jim, you can see EXACTLY how a Republican president would address this crisis. Just look to Chris Christie. The response is simply more force, more arms, more repression and eventually, more prisons.
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Thanks for the link. Too bad TPM didnât see fit to include it.
Here is the tact of her speech for those not wishing to to click the link:
Hillary Clinton: Itâs time to end the era of mass incarceration
Thank you so much. I am absolutely delighted to be back here at Columbia. I want to thank President Bollinger, Dean Janow, and everyone at the School of International and Public Affairs. It is a special treat to be here with and on behalf of a great leader of this city and our country, David Dinkins. He has made such an indelible impact on New York, and I had the great privilege of working with him as First Lady and then, of course, as a new senator.
When I was just starting out as a senator, Davidâs door was always open. He and his wonderful wife Joyce were great friends and supporters and good sounding boards about ideas that we wanted to consider to enhance the quality of life and the opportunities for the people of this city. I was pleased to address the Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum in my first year as a senator, and I so appreciated then as I have in the years since Davidâs generosity with his time and most of all his wisdom. So 14 years later, Iâm honored to have this chance, once again, to help celebrate the legacy of one of New Yorkâs greatest public servants.
Iâm pleased too that you will have the opportunity after my remarks to hear from such a distinguished panel, to go into more detail about some of the issues that we face. I also know that Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is here, along with other local and community leaders.
Because surely this is a time when our collective efforts to devise approaches to the problems that still afflict us is more important than ever. Indeed, it is a time for wisdom.
For yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short.
Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. By shattered glass and shouts of anger and shows of force.
Yet again a community is reeling, its fault lines laid bare and its bonds of trust and respect frayed.
Yet again, brave police officers have been attacked in the line of duty.
What weâve seen in Baltimore should, indeed does, tear at our soul.
And, from Ferguson to Staten Island to Baltimore, the patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable.
Walter Scott shot in the back in Charleston, South Carolina. Unarmed. In debt. And terrified of spending more time in jail for child support payments he couldnât afford.
Tamir Rice shot in a park in Cleveland, Ohio. Unarmed and just 12 years old.
Eric Garner choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes on the streets of this city.
And now Freddie Gray. His spine nearly severed while in police custody.
Not only as a mother and a grandmother but as a citizen, a human being, my heart breaks for these young men and their families.
We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.
There is something profoundly wrong when African American men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes, and sentenced to longer prison terms than are meted out to their white counterparts.
There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes. And an estimated 1.5 million black men are âmissingâ from their families and communities because of incarceration and premature death.
There is something wrong when more than one out of every three young black men in Baltimore canât find a job.
There is something wrong when trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve breaks down as far as it has in many of our communities.
We have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance. And these recent tragedies should galvanize us to come together as a nation to find our balance again.
We should begin by heeding the pleas of Freddie Grayâs family for peace and unity, echoing the families of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and others in the past years.
Those who are instigating further violence in Baltimore are disrespecting the Gray family and the entire community. They are compounding the tragedy of Freddie Grayâs death and setting back the cause of justice. So the violence has to stop.
But more broadly, letâs remember that everyone in every community benefits when there is respect for the law and when everyone in every community is respected by the law. That is what we have to work towards in Baltimore and across our country.
We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Between police and citizens, yes, but also across society.
Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets. Between and among neighbors and even people with whom we disagree politically.
This is so fundamental to who we are as a nation and everything we want to achieve together.
It truly is about how we treat each other and what we value. Making it possible for every American to reach his or her God-given potentialâregardless of who you are, where you were born, or who you love.
The inequities that persist in our justice system undermine this shared vision of what America can be and should be.
I learned this firsthand as a young attorney just out of law schoolâat one of those law schools that will remain nameless here at Columbia. One of my earliest jobs for the Childrenâs Defense Fund, which David had mentionedâI was so fortunate to work with Marian Wright Edelman as a young lawyer and then serving on the board of the Childrenâs Defense Fundâwas studying the problem then of youth, teenagers, sometimes preteens, incarcerated in adult jails. Then, as director of the University of Arkansas School of Lawâs legal aid clinic, I advocated on behalf of prison inmates and poor families.
I saw repeatedly how our legal system can be and all too often is stacked against those who have the least power, who are the most vulnerable.
I saw how families could be and were torn apart by excessive incarceration. I saw the toll on children growing up in homes shattered by poverty and prison.
So, unfortunately, I know these are not new challenges by any means.
In fact they have become even more complex and urgent over time. And today they demand fresh thinking and bold action from all of us.
Today there seems to be a growing bipartisan movement for commonsense reforms in our criminal justice systems. Senators as disparate on the political spectrum as Cory Booker and Rand Paul and Dick Durbin and Mike Lee are reaching across the aisle to find ways to work together. It is rare to see Democrats and Republicans agree on anything today. But weâre beginning to agreeing on this: We need to restore balance to our criminal justice system.
Now of course it is not enough just to agree and give speeches about itâwe actually have to work together to get the job done.
We need to deliver real reforms that can be felt on our streets, in our courthouses, and our jails and prisons, in communities too long neglected.
Let me touch on two areas in particular where I believe we need to push for more progress.
First, we need smart strategies to fight crime that help restore trust between law enforcement and our communities, especially communities of color.
Thereâs a lot of good work to build on. Across the country, there are so many police officers out there every day inspiring trust and confidence, honorably doing their duty, putting themselves on the line to save lives. There are police departments already deploying creative and effective strategies, demonstrating how we can protect the public without resorting to unnecessary force. We need to learn from those examples, build on what works.
We can start by making sure that federal funds for state and local law enforcement are used to bolster best practices, rather than to buy weapons of war that have no place on our streets.
President Obamaâs task force on policing gives us a good place to start. Its recommendations offer a roadmap for reform, from training to technology, guided by more and better data.
We should make sure every police department in the country has body cameras to record interactions between officers on patrol and suspects.
That will improve transparency and accountability, it will help protect good people on both sides of the lens. For every tragedy caught on tape, there surely have been many more that remained invisible. Not every problem can be or will be prevented with cameras, but this is a commonsense step we should take.
The President has provided the idea of matching funds to state and local governments investing in body cameras. We should go even further and make this the norm everywhere.
And we should listen to law enforcement leaders who are calling for a renewed focus on working with communities to prevent crime, rather than measuring success just by the number of arrests or convictions.
As your Senator from New York, I supported a greater emphasis on community policing, along with putting more officers on the street to get to know those communities.
David Dinkins was an early pioneer of this policy. His leadership helped lay the foundation for dramatic drops in crime in the years that followed.
And today smart policing in communities that builds relationships, partnerships, and trust makes more sense than ever.
And it shouldnât be limited just to officers on the beat. Itâs an ethic that should extend throughout our criminal justice system. To prosecutors and parole officers. To judges and lawmakers.
We all share a responsibility to help re-stitch the fabric of our neighborhoods and communities.
We also have to be honest about the gaps that exist across our country, the inequality that stalks our streets. Because you cannot talk about smart policing and reforming the criminal justice system if you also donât talk about whatâs needed to provide economic opportunity, better educational chances for young people, more support to families so they can do the best jobs they are capable of doing to help support their own children.
Today I saw an article on the front page of USA Today that really struck me, written by a journalist who lives in Baltimore. And hereâs what I read three times to make sure I was reading correctly: âAt a conference in 2013 at Johns Hopkins University, Vice Provost Jonathan Bagger pointed out that âonly six miles separate the Baltimore neighborhoods of Roland Park and Hollins Market. But there is a 20-year difference in the average life expectancy.ââ
We have learned in the last few years that life expectancy, which is a measure of the quality of life in communities and countries, manifests the same inequality that we see in so many other parts of our society.
Womenâwhite women without high school educationâare losing life expectancy. Black men and black women are seeing their life expectancy goes down in so many parts of our country.
This may not grab headlines, although I was glad to see it on the front page of USA Today. But it tells us more than I think we can bear about what we are up against.
We need to start understanding how important it is to care for every single child as though that child were our own.
David and I started our conversation this morning talking about our grandchildren; now his are considerably older than mine. But it was not just two longtime friends catching up with each other. It was so clearly sharing what is most important to us, as it is to families everywhere in our country.
So I donât want the discussion about criminal justice, smart policing, to be siloed and to permit discussions and arguments and debates about it to only talk about that. The conversation needs to be much broader. Because that is a symptom, not a cause, of what ails us today.
The second area where we need to chart a new course is how we approach punishment and prison.
Itâs a stark fact that the United States has less than 5 percent of the worldâs population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the worldâs total prison population. The numbers today are much higher than they were 30, 40 years ago, despite the fact that crime is at historic lows.
Of the more than 2 million Americans incarcerated today, a significant percentage are low-level offenders: people held for violating parole or minor drug crimes, or who are simply awaiting trial in backlogged courts.
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime. But it is does a lot to tear apart families and communities.
One in every 28 children now has a parent in prison. Think about what that means for those children.
When we talk about one and a half million missing African American men, weâre talking about missing husbands, missing fathers, missing brothers.
Theyâre not there to look after their children or bring home a paycheck. And the consequences are profound.
Without the mass incarceration that we currently practice, millions fewer people would be living in poverty.
And itâs not just families trying to stay afloat with one parent behind bars. Of the 600,000 prisoners who reenter society each year, roughly 60 percent face long-term unemployment.
And for all this, taxpayers are paying about $80 billion a year to keep so many people in prison.
The price of incarcerating a single inmate is often more than $30,000 per yearâand up to $60,000 in some states. Thatâs the salary of a teacher or police officer.
One year in a New Jersey state prison costs $44,000âmore than the annual tuition at Princeton.
If the United States brought our correctional expenditures back in line with where they were several decades ago, weâd save an estimated $28 billion a year. And I believe we would not be less safe. You can pay a lot of police officers and nurses and others with $28 billion to help us deal with the pipeline issues.
Itâs time to change our approach. Itâs time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population while keeping our communities safe.
I donât know all the answers. Thatâs why Iâm hereâto ask all the smart people in Columbia and New York to start thinking this through with me. I know we should work together to pursue together to pursue alternative punishments for low-level offenders. They do have to be in some way registered in the criminal justice system, but we donât want that to be a fast track to long-term criminal activity, we donât want to create another âincarceration generation.â
Iâve been encouraged to see changes that I supported as Senator to reduce the unjust federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine crimes finally become law.
And last year, the Sentencing Commission reduced recommended prison terms for some drug crimes.
President Obama and former Attorney General Holder have led the way with important additional steps. And I am looking forward to our new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, carrying this work forward.
There are other measures that I and so many others have championed to reform arbitrary mandatory minimum sentences are long overdue.
We also need probation and drug diversion programs to deal swiftly with violations, while allowing low-level offenders who stay clean and stay out of trouble to stay out of prison. Iâve seen the positive effects of specialized drug courts and juvenile programs work to the betterment of individuals and communities. And please, please, let us put mental health back at the top of our national agenda.
You and I know that the promise of de-institutionalizing those in mental health facilities was supposed to be followed by the creation of community-based treatment centers. Well, we got half of that equationâbut not the other half. Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
I have to tell you I was somewhat surprised in both Iowa and New Hampshire to be asked so many questions about mental health. âWhat are we going to do with people who need help for substance abuse or mental illness?â âWhat are we going to do when the remaining facilities are being shut down for budget reasons?â âWhat are we going to do when hospitals donât really get reimbursed for providing the kind of emergency care that is needed for mental health patients?â
Itâs not just a problem in our cities. Thereâs a quiet epidemic of substance abuse sweeping small-town and rural America as well. We have to do more and finally get serious about treatment.
Iâll be talking about all of this in the months to come, offering new solutions to protect and strengthen our families and communities.
I know in a time when weâre afflicted by short-termism, weâre not looking over the horizon for the investments that we need to make in our fellow citizens, in our children. So Iâm well aware that progress will not be easy, despite the emerging bipartisan consensus for certain reforms. And that we will have to overcome deep divisions and try to begin to replenish our depleted reservoirs of trust.
But I am convinced, as the congenital optimist I must be to live my life, that we can rise to this challenge. We can heal our wounds. We can restore balance to our justice system and respect in our communities. And we can make sure that we take actions that are going to make a difference in the lives of those who for too long have been marginalized and forgotten.
Letâs protect the rights of all our people. Letâs take on the broader inequities in our society. We canât separate out the unrest we see in the streets from the cycles of poverty and despair that hollow out those neighborhoods.
Despite all the progress weâve made in this country lifting people upâand it has been extraordinaryâtoo many of our fellow citizens are still left out.
Twenty-five years ago, in his inaugural address as Mayor, David Dinkins warned of leaving âtoo many lost amidst the wealth and grandeur that surrounds us.â
Today, his words and the emotion behind them ring truer than ever. You donât have to look too far from this magnificent hall to find children still living in poverty or trapped in failing schools. Families who work hard but canât afford the rising prices in their neighborhood.
Mothers and fathers who fear for their sonsâ safety when they go off to schoolâor just to go buy a pack of Skittles.
These challenges are all woven together. And they all must be tackled together.
Our goal must truly be inclusive and lasting prosperity thatâs measured by how many families get ahead and stay aheadâŚ
How many children climb out of poverty and stay out of prisonâŚ
How many young people can go to college without breaking the bankâŚ
How many new immigrants can start small businesses âŚ
How many parents can get good jobs that allow them to balance the demands of work and family.
Thatâs how we should measure prosperity. With all due respect, that is a far better measurement than the size of the bonuses handed out in downtown office buildings.
Now even in the most painful times like those we are seeing in Baltimore âŚ
When parents fear for their childrenâŚ
When smoke fills the skies above our citiesâŚ
When police officers are assaultedâŚ
Even thenâespecially thenâletâs remember the aspirations and values that unite us all: That every person should have the opportunity to succeed. That no one is disposable. That every life matters.
So yes, Mayor Dinkins. This is a time for wisdom.
A time for honesty about race and justice in America.
And, yes, a time for reform.
David Dinkins is a leader we can look to. We know what he stood for. Let us take the challenge and example he presents and think about what we must do to make sure that this country we loveâthis city we live inâare both good and great.
And please join me in saying a prayer for the family of Freddie Gray, and all the men whose names we know and those we donât who have lost their lives unnecessarily and tragically. And in particular today, include in that prayer the people of Baltimore and our beloved country.
Thank you all very much.
Why Is Hillary Rodham Clinton Harming The American Composers and Performers She Once Loved?
Mrs. Hillary Clinton unabashedly stated to the American public, âFor a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear."
Mrs. Clinton, in his 2015 Grammy award winning rap performance, âIâ, American Rap Performance Artist Kendrick Lamar reveals, âIâve been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent.â
In a January 20, 2011 LAWeekly interview (Google search), American rapper and Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar, born in 1987, the same year songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and VICTIM DENIAL that was nominated for a Grammy award, he told the interviewer:
âLamarâs parents moved from Chicago to Compton in 1984 with all of $500 in their pockets. âMy momâs one of 13 [THIRTEEN] siblings, and they all got SIX kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton,â he says.â
âIâm 6 years old, seeinâ my uncles playing with shotguns, sellinâ dope in front of the apartment. My moms and pops never said nothing, 'cause they were young and living wild, too. I got about 15 stories like âAverage Joe.ââ
Mrs. Clinton, it seems to me Kendrick identified the source of his depression, the roots of poverty, the child abuse/maltreatment that prevented him, his brothers, sisters, cousins, neighborhood friends and school classmates from enjoying a fairly happy safe childhood.
Mrs. Clinton, it seems the adults responsible for raising the children in Kendrickâs immediate and extended family placed obstacles in their childrenâs way, causing their kids to deal with challenges and stresses young minds are not prepared to deal withâŚnor should they or any other children be exposed to and have to deal with
Mrs. Clinton, do you, or do you not believe some or many developing elementary and JHS children exposed to this type of horrific child abuse may become confused not knowing OR NOT CARING ABOUT right from wrong?
Mrs. Clinton, as they mature do you believe, do some or many children realize their parents introduced them to a life of pain and struggle, totally unlike the mostly safe, happy life the media shows them many American kids are enjoying?
Mrs, Clinton are you familiar with the terms, âanger, frustration and resentment?â
Mrs. Clinton, after reading Kendrick describe his childhood upbringing, do you wonder how little Kendrick and his classmates reacted when their elementary school teacher introduced the DARE presenter and they learned about the real dangers of drugs and how they harm people, including their parents?
If the January 20, 2011 interview hasnât opened your eyes, try reading the October 25, 2012 LAWeekly (Google search) interview in which Kendrick clearly states he was a SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD when his mom subjected him to emotional abuse/neglect, torment and great disappointment.
Mrs. Clinton, Kendrick Lamar has taken a bold first step by revealing to his family, friends, fans, admirers and the American public, the depression he experienced DUE TO his mom making extremely poor choices that deprived his brothers and sisters of experiencing a safe, somewhat happy American childhood.
Mrs. Clinton, reading Kendrickâs background, do you feel horrible for a grade school child who canât depend on his mom to be there for him, a mom who exposes him to things kids should not have to witness and deal with in their young minds.
I admire Kendrickâs honesty when revealing the child abuse he was/is tormented by.
However, Mrs. Clinton, honestly, at this moment I have little respect for you and other educated Americans with larger voices than Kendrickâs, who blatantly ignore Kendrick and the thousands of American children much like him who are victims of horrific child abuse at the hands of their caretakers.
Caretakers, who in my personal experience during the nearly dozen years I provided police services to a Brooklyn, NY community, are mostly young single teens and women who irresponsibly build families before acquiring practical skills, PATIENCE, maturity and the means to independently care for their children.
Mrs. Clinton, are you aware that Mr. Tavis Smileyâs mom was eighteen-years-old when she began building her family of ten children?
Mrs. Clinton are you aware that according to Tavis, his NINE brothers and sisters to this day still struggle with poverty, and that Tavis is the only one of ten kids in his family to enjoy a prosperous American life?
Mrs. Hillary Clinton, do you have any doubts that as he matured, young Tavis regularly questioned the choices his mother made for him, his brothers and sisters? SILENT RESENTMENT
Mrs. Clinton, Iâve witnessed depressed children angrily lash out at their moms for ignoring them, not feeding them, forcing them to resort to anti-social behaviors that resulted with them being arrested, or suffering grievous physical injuries when they succumbed to âThe Streetâ life Baltimore grandmother Ms. Toya Graham speaks about.
Mrs. Clinton, we all witnessed Ms. Grahamâs son Michael, as well as his angry, frustrated classmates acting with depraved indifference toward human life as they attempted to cause grave harm to police charged with protecting peaceful people from angry depressed, frustrated teens who often cause emotional trauma and physical pain to peaceful people.
Mrs. Clinton, were you one of many Americans who lauded Ms. Graham for taking disciplinary action, yet failed to consider why her son Michael and his schoolmates were/are filled with so much anger and rage, they were attempting to gravely injure or murder the people who protect their peaceful neighbors and community?
Mrs. Clinton, why do you fail to recognize these depressed kids are filled with resentment toward the people who introduced them and their siblings to a life of pain, hardship and struggle?
In 1987, the year Kendrick Lamar was born, Suzanne Vega wrote a Grammy nominated song about child abuse, describing how if questioned, a victim will deny he was abused, suggesting"And itâs not your business anyway"
Mrs. Clinton, do you believe it is possible there are many adult victims of childhood abuse who deny childhood abuse, or keep it tucked away not wanting to remember the pain they experienced?
Mrs. Clinton, do you understand why most adult victimâs of early child abuse, excluding Kendrick Lamar and Tupac Shakur, are reluctant to blame their parents, instead venting their anger and frustrations on the authority figures many of their elders and community leaders tell them are responsible for their hardship and struggle?
Mrs. Clinton, when Motown was in its infancy you were a young teen, I was a toddler. We both grew up dancing and celebrating the music our mega-talented, peaceful Motown neighbors composed for the enjoyment of ALL Americans and people all around our tiny blue orb.
Let me ask you, Mrs. Clinton. Have you ever pondered why musicians from our early years wrote lyrics praising, adoring, loving and respecting women, while many of their children and grandchildren were/are, for the past thirty years, writing lyrics characterizing females, aka our moms, sisters, grandmas and daughters, as âwvtches and bhvres,â or essentially less than human, undeserving of respect?
Mrs. Clinton, do you not recognize well-intentioned social policies designed to help American moms and others emotionally harmed by the human ignorance known as racism, planted the seeds for another social problem that resulted with me personally witnessing kids like Shawn âJay Zâ Carter (born December 4, 1969) running wild through the streets of Brooklyn, NY, causing fear, physical and/or emotional pain to virtually every peaceful person living and working in his Brooklyn community?
Mrs. Clinton, do you feel compassion for the moms of our Motown friends who were forced to contend with the emotional effects of racism embraced for several hundred years by a significant population of ignorant Americans?
Mrs. Clinton, do you feel compassion for the daughters and granddaughters of our Motown friends who today, are forced to contend with the emotional effects of their children characterizing them as âwvtches and bhvres.â or less than human undeserving of respectâŚmuch the way the ignorant population of Americans characterized their Motown moms and dads, and their grandparents?
Mrs. Clinton do you not recognize many of todayâs popular music performers are describing in their popular lyrics the child abuse/neglect they, their sisters, brothers, cousins, neighborhood friends, elementary and JHS classmates were victimized by, depriving them of an Average Joe or Josie American kid childhood?
Mrs. Clinton, with all due respect, I believe you and many of your highly or average educated friends and supporters recognize why the children and grandchildren of our Motown friends are disrespecting females in their popular music performances.
Mrs. Clinton, I also believe you have built a platform that assists/enables adult victims of early child abuse to continue denying they are/were victims of child abuse/neglect, thereby you are facilitating the cycle of child abuse harming kids who mature into teens who pelt cops with bricks and boulders.
Mrs. Clinton, when you ignore the child abuse many kids have suffered over the past four or five decades, in my opinion you have no interest in seeing many American moms regain the respect and love of their children.
In fact Mrs. Clinton, by ignoring the child abuse epidemic harming the psyche of our entire nation, you are not only perpetuating the victimization of children, you are doing nothing to ease the burdens of peaceful moms dealing with real life stresses and challenges, moms who everyday are stressed while trying to protect their children from being influenced by emotionally damaged kids in their schools and neighborhoods.
Mrs. Clinton, with all due respect, when you speak about âwhite privilegeâ I see an ignorant American citizen selfishly wanting to ignore the dysfunctions of some or many American moms whose support you seek.
After your âwhite privilegeâ comments I view you as a sad person wishing to incite, instead of healâŚand you are inciting a population of emotionally scarred, depressed American people because you want their support. DESPICABLE
Mrs. Clinton, sadly it appears you choose to exploit racial issues, appealing to the emotions of depressed people who are in denial about the poor choices many âliving wildâ young people in their communities make for their families/childrenâs well being.
Mrs. Clinton, depression is triggered by many factors or situations. As Kendrick boldly shared, Child Abuse can cause depression.
Do you know what also causes many peaceful people to become depressed, Mrs. Clinton?
Ask an Average Josie mom, wanting to raise peaceful happy Average Joe and Josie kids in a community populated by many âliving wildâ moms and/or dads raising their children in environments Kendrick describes.
Ask these loving, caring moms about the stresses and challenges they experience keeping their children from being influenced and harmed by children being raised in families fraught with emotional abuse, neglect and maltreatment.
Mrs. Clinton, do you realize by not speaking loudly, using plain English to address the epidemic of child abuse that began five decades ago, you are ignoring real life stresses and concerns that cause peaceful moms and dads to legitimately fear for their childrenâs emotional well being and physical safety?
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Mrs. Clinton, are you familiar with the writings and raps created by legendary American rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur? (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 â September 13, 1996)
If not I suggest reading his lyrics, aka true life stories, to learn about his love-hate relationship with his mom, his great disappointment with his dad, and about Tupacâs frequent suicidal thoughts.
In his early 90s âThatâs Just The Way It Isâ (aka Changes) Tupac raps about waking up in the morning and contemplating suicide. He raps about emotionally and physically harming his peaceful neighbors in order to survive the life of struggle, pain and hardship his dysfunctional parents introduced him to.
Mrs. Clinton, Read about how Tupacâs drug addicted mother accepted proceeds from the harmful anti-social acts Tupac raps/writes about committing against his peaceful neighbors. I have to tell you, Mrs. Clinton, reading Tupacâs lyrics brings back a lot memories of the emotional child abuse I witnessed during the nearly twelve year I tried to protect peaceful people from teens and adults dealing with the consequences of child abuse.
Mrs. Clinton, could feeling unloved and emotionally abandon by his mom inspire Tupac to write/rap about waking in the morning and contemplating suicide in a rap he titled, âThatâs Just The Way It Isâ?
Perhaps immature momâs making poor choices for their families is responsible for the rise in suicide the children and grandchildren of our Motown friends are experiencing, as recently reported by the NYTimes?
Mrs. Clinton, before I close this grammatically impaired writing, for which I apologize, I have to be frank. I do not admire people who willfully fail to abide by established rules and procedures that provide for personal and public accountability.
Iâve heard and read a lot of harsh comments about your activities and character, Mrs. Clinton. Of all the comments Iâve read about your lack of character and truthfulness, the incident with the unauthorized server bolsters my opinion that you are not a quality person fit to lead my country. You do not follow the rules and you are a sneak. If you were my mom and dadâs child, they would be greatly disappointed, wondering were they failed.
I am quite sure if my folks were still around witnessing you and your supporters ignoring the obvious emotional pain many children and grandchildren of our Motown music friends have experienced since we sang along and danced to their songs of peace, love, respect understanding and unity, you would not find my folks donating to your campaignâŚa campaign that incites, instead of seeking to heal and unify Americans so we all prosper and have kids who experience an Average Joe or Josie American life.
Please, will someone, anyone with a larger audience than Kendrick Lamar, help Kendrick and other victims of early childhood emotional abuse and neglect actively, publicly, loudly discuss how we go about healing their pain and protecting future generations of Americans from experiencing abusive childhoods?
Or will todayâs larger voices continue ignoring the voices of young people across our country who unlike their peaceful, mega-talented Motown music predecessors, write performance lyrics characterizing women âwvtches and bhvres,â essentially less than human people, not deserving of respect?
Hillary many enjoy being characterized that way, though I have a feeling there are millions of moms across our nation who feel otherwise, wanting to be respected and treated with dignity the maternal half our population deserves.
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Rodham began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.[50] Her first scholarly article, âChildren Under the Lawâ, was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973.[51] Discussing the new childrenâs rights movement, it stated that âchild citizensâ were âpowerless individualsâ[52] and argued that children should not be considered equally incompetent from birth to attaining legal age, but that instead courts should presume competence except when there is evidence otherwise, on a case-by-case basis.[53] This page was last modified on 22 June 2015, at 03:23.
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