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December 7, 2015

Hillary is a way better candidate because she has years of experience from all over the world

behind her. Of course she's not perfect but she actually learns from her mistakes and doesn't give up.

Labor Secretrary Perez joined Clinton in Sioux City Iowa to announce his endorsement.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251877756

So many extraordinary people behind her~

December 7, 2015

Tweet quote from the President's speech, Hekate..

Nerdy Wonka ?@NerdyWonka
Pres. Obama: "We cannot turn against one another by making this be a fight between America and Islam. That is what groups like ISIL want"
3:12 PM - 6 Dec 2015 17 17 Retweets
7 7 likes

More @ the link..

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/06/president-obama-delivers-an-address-to-the-nation-2/#comments
December 7, 2015

Carole King @ the White House tonight for the Kennedy Center Honors..


Mark Knoller
✔ ?@markknoller
Tonight's Ken Cen Honorees at WH reception (L-R) Cicely Tyson, Seiji Ozawa, Rita Moreno, George Lucas & Carole King.
12:21 PM - 6 Dec 2015 37 37 Retweets
28 28 likes

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/06/president-delivers-remarks-at-kennedy-center-honors-reception/
December 6, 2015

There's no excuse for this.. absolutley none..

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Sanders: "Sometimes people forget he was assassinated because he stood up with sanitation workers fighting for decent wages and decent working conditions,” Sanders said, referring to King being shot in 1968 in Memphis, where he went to support striking workers."

snip//

The OP Notice anything? Those sanitation workers were not just people fighting for fair wages and working conditions. Those strikers were BLACK MEN, fighting for the same wages and working conditions as WHITE MEN. Through Erasure, he completely leaves out very important Basic historical facts in order to appeal to his base. And it is completely unnecessary and just plain wrong to do. If one is planning on invoking the legacy of a Black Revolutionary from OUR battle for liberation in America, one needs to not erase their very blackness in order to promote their ideology. In my opinion, it is things like this that preclude him from being the candidate of Black Americans as well as of his White Male dominated base. In order to appeal to them, certain things must be sanitized from history.

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Now retired and living on Kaua'i. :)

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