2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican [View all]Red Oak
(697 posts)As a high school student, Sec. Clinton worked for Barry Goldwater's campaign. Here is what Dr. King Jr. said about Goldwater:
While not himself a racist, concluded Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racists.
She later worked for Gerald Ford and then Nelson Rockefeller, both Republicans.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/hillary-worked-for-goldwater/
then as First Lady:
Hillary Clinton on Super Predators
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/8/1467336/-Hillary-Clinton-Gangs-of-kids-are-super-predators-with-no-conscience-no-empathy
Has Hillary Clinton done things to help the Black Community? Mass incarceration, expanding prisons, support for the death penalty
https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/
Now, I really do not think that these data points in isolation show Sec. Clinton is a racist. I want to show that she did change positions over the years. She made some mistakes and tried to correct them. She's human.
My point is, people change. We can and should talk to those people that left the Democratic party and voted for Trump. Some of them are racist at this time. But they also voted for President Obama twice. By working with them we can probably get some of them to change their views over the years. If they want a system, economic, social and justice, that works for ALL of us, then we want them. I think your point may be similar. We can work together.