Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumMeet the woman who speaks for Hillary Clinton: Karen Finney
Race issues strike a personal chord with Karen Finney. Her African-American fathers last name, Finney, comes from the man who once owned the family as slaves. Yet her mother, Mildred Lee, is the great, great, great niece of Robert E. Leeor the General, as he is referred to within the family.
That is my American story, a mixed race heritage that I am proud of, just as Virginia, the South and our country has a mixed history, she wrote in a 2010 Huffington Post column decrying Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnells decision to celebrate a Confederate History Month without mentioning slavery.
Finney is the daughter of a civil-rights-lawyer father and a labor-negotiator mother. She moved with her mother from New York to Berkeley at age 7, attended UCLA, and worked as a teaching assistant in a minimum-security facility for pregnant teenagers in Los Angeles. That experience kindled a passion for public education and eventually launched her into a career in liberal politics.
Shes been in the Clinton orbit since the early 1990s, when she was drawn to presumptive Democratic nominee Bill Clinton after his visit to riot-torn Los Angeles in 1992. Clinton, she recalls, didnt demonize these young people. In the 1990s, Finney joined the Clinton White House as the First Ladys deputy press secretary and later as a traveling press secretary on her 2000 Senate campaign.
http://fortune.com/2015/05/27/karen-finney-hillary-clinton/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Karen Finney is an awesome add to the Hillary 2016 team.
She is definitely a strong spokesperson for clear and dear Democratic values!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Strong woman!
floriduck
(2,262 posts)She is just working for the wrong candidate.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)not know what that is,here's an explanation:
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)As host I ask you to self delete.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)When I see her, I often think "if a ball of fire married a Yoga master." When Karen talks, it's like watching a calm, self assured, evenly tempered, well spoken woman gut punch somebody!