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2016 Postmortem

NWCorona

(8,541 posts) Thu Feb 18, 2016, 11:22 AM Feb 2016

Boston Globe's take on Hillary's black conversion

An interesting article
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/17/hillary-clinton-black-conversion/MGm28xS7rHMlX8VQ0admzJ/story.html

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Boston Globe's take on Hillary's black conversion (Original Post) NWCorona Feb 2016 OP

detects the pattern in her recent speeches. 6chars Feb 2016 #1

“If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, NWCorona Feb 2016 #2

6chars

(3,967 posts)

1. detects the pattern in her recent speeches.

Reply to NWCorona (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 11:27 AM

Feb 2016

Her speech yesterday in Harlem touched on criminal justice and economic opportunity. Those remarks follow a stop in majority-black Flint, Mich., to decry its lead-water crisis, and a debate in segregated Milwaukee, where she pledged to “tackle” discrimination. She also took a shot at Bernie Sanders’ criticism of Wall Street with the question: “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?”

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)

2. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow,

Reply to NWCorona (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 11:31 AM

Feb 2016

would that end racism?”
It's like she hasn't heard of predatory and racist lending.

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