Nice story: Compton Crowd Cheers Clinton (LAngelos)

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4098235, Nice story: Compton Crowd Cheers Clinton
Posted by Kurt_and_Hunter on Thu Jan-17-08 04:49 PM

Racial rifts make me scared and depressed, so I am cheered by this story and cheered by comparable stories about Barack wowing white crowds.

It's all good.

Compton Crowd Cheers Clinton
Amy Chozick reports from Los Angeles on the presidential race.

Hillary Clinton reached out to the African-American community of Los Angeles today. Speaking from the Zion Missionary Baptist Church in the Compton district, Clinton called for charter schools for minority youth, pre-school programs for children four years and younger and a $200 million fund to help ex-offenders re-enter the community.

“We have a lot of talk in this country of family values, but there are a lot of families we don’t value,” she said to the packed congregation’s cheer of “Amen.”

Clinton spoke about her own Methodist faith and used the pulpit to lay out her economic agenda, which she has been discussing for the past two days in Nevada and California. “We’re facing a recession in the economy,” she said. “Here’s what I’ve asked that we do: A moratorium for 90 days on home foreclosures.” The group offered another, “Amen.”

Clinton also talked of how she was moved when she went to see Dr. Martin Luther King speak when she was 16, and how King challenged economic in justice as well as racial injustice. “Dr. King understood that in order to realize fully the promise of America, we had to stand for economic justice,” she said. “The injustice of poverty, the injustice of people who work all day and then on the night shift as well…It is simply not working for so many families, especially our African-American families.” ...

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