Would you vote for Jill Stein???? Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party's Jill Stein Over Hillary

Swiffness! wrote: »

West still mad that Obama didn't give him better seats at the inauguration. They said this ? was leaving random late night voice mails at the White House on some ? dial ex ? . ? outta here.

All the ? they sayin bout Hillary now they once said about Al Gore............. HOW DID THAT TURN OUT

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DA_Executionah! wrote: »

I never heard of the green party. what is their platform? what are they about?

2. Racial Discrimination

The development of the United States has been marked by conflict over questions of race. Our nation was formed only after Native Americans were displaced. The institution of slavery had as its underpinnings the belief in white supremacy, which we as Greens condemn. In slavery's aftermath, people of color have borne the brunt of violence and discrimination. The Green Party unequivocally condemns these evils, which continue to be a social problem of paramount significance.

The community of people of African ancestry whose family members were held in chattel slavery in what is now the United States of America have legitimate claims to reparations including monetary compensation for centuries of human rights violations, including the Transatlantic slave trade now recognized by the United Nations as a "crime against humanity." As our Nation has done in the past with respect to the Choctaw, the Lakota, the Lambuth, and more recently for Japanese Americans and the European Jewish community, reparations are now due to address the debt still owed to descendants of enslaved Africans.

We commit to full and complete reparations to the African American community of this nation for the past four hundred plus years of genocide, slavery, land-loss, destruction of original identity and the stark disparities which haunt the present evidenced in unemployment statistics, substandard and inadequate education, higher levels of mortality including infant and maternal mortality and the practice of mass incarceration. We recognize that reparations are a debt (not charity) that is owed by our own and other nations and by the corporate institutions chartered under our laws to a collective of people. We believe that the leadership on the question of what our nation owes to this process of right ought to come from the African American community, whose right to self-determination and autonomy to chart the path to healing we fully recognize.

We understand that until significant steps are taken to reverse the ongoing abuses; to end the criminalization of the Black and Brown communities, to eradicate poverty, to invest in education, health care and the restoration and protection of human rights, that it will be impossible to repair the continuing damage wrought by the ideology of white supremacy which permeates the governing institutions of our nation.

http://www.gp.org/social_justice/#sjCivilRights

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ghostdog56 wrote: »

Smh at ? thinking Hillary Clinton is not more racist than trump ? both of them but Hillary is pure evil,her idol is Margaret ? who created planned parenthood to exterminate blacks so why do you think that the Clintons put that crime bill in place? To break up black families creating more single mothers and by default more abortions she is going to finish what Margaret ? started but keep thinking she is a friend to black people she is playing you dumb ? just like her husband did

Again, this is just nonsense. Get your facts straight. ? is a hero to many women, especially feminists, for her work on birth control. Did she have problematic ideas about race? Yes. But is that what feminists of today admire her for? No. Did she create PP to exterminate blacks? No.

The same with the Clinton crime bill. Clinton desperately want not to appear soft on crime (which was an Achilles heel for many Democrats), and that's why he extended the war on drugs as well as, more generally, the more punitive trend in American criminal law, not to "break up more black families."