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Originally posted by Lord Blackout
You are trolling but, for once, I won't be a cynic and answer you. You're opening up a discussion that can never truly be put to bed. "Do they care about us?" This will never be answered fully simply because I can't answer for them and neither can you.
It is arguable that Abraham Lincoln did not care about black folks when he passed the Emancipation Proclamation. It is arguable that Lyndon Johnson did not care about black folks when he passed the Civil Rights Act. Nevertheless, those two events were the two most instrumental to the betterment of life when it comes to African Americans. We can sit down and discuss the intentions of politicians (which is something we'll never know for sure) or we can simply break down the two candidates on policy.
- You have one candidate who'll bring about a justice system reform directed at limiting implicit bias and training and holding cops to the same standards as cops from around the world are held. A candidate who's not afraid to admit to systemic racism and implicit bias.
-And you have one candidate who proposes militarizing the inner cities with excessive police forces and bringing the unconstitutional Stop & Frisk back. A candidate who will not admit to the presence of systemic racism and who calls it "choking". A candidate whose VP attacks the other candidate for mentioning implicit bias. A candidate who's declared, since day 1, that he'll side with the justice system officials.
The choice is obvious. You can dismiss them because of what you think about their intentions but don't complain when things get worse.
PS: If you wanna talk about the past and the crime bill, which once again was highly backed by the black caucus, we can also talk about the past and how Hillary went from republican to democrat when they started their southern strategy. We can talk about how active she was in the civil rights era and how she led protests to increase African American admissions in her college. But none of that should be relevant. It should only be relevant whether their policies are good for your not. You're getting a president, not a spouse.
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lmao this entire post is an attempt to absolve one candidate of their complicity in Mass Incarceration while demonising the other.
No, in an equitable scenario the past shouldn't matter. But in this case and because of the history/violence those actions provoked, they must be held in the same vein in whatever route said person goes down.
And again with this whole "well black people agreed so it was kinda fine". You do remember this was just after the Crack-Cocaine epidemic, which i reffered to earlier? You do know that the 94 Crime Bill was simply a way to use Blackness as a political vehicle, AGAIN, in the same way that HRC (and Trump) will seek to use Muslim-Americans (as determined by their comments at the Debate last night).
You cannot just erase that entire backstory but that is totally relevent, as to why the Prison system is like that in the first place. Dismissing it is v v stupid and totally naive.
Honestly, just watch Ava Duvernay's doc 13th. It will clear everything up for you
and the comments are dragging the editor 
