87% of African Americans view Hillary Clinton favorably

[BrotherIvan]

282. Honestly, what will Hillary Clinton do for the African American community?

I'd really like to know because I followed the subthread where black posters on this site were saying that Hillary is so much better on civil rights. But her campaign is shaping up to be an ill-fitting mishmash of mimicry. Just like Obama, sound like a liberal, govern like a conservative moderate. It is who she has proven to be by her record. We'll be told that she can't get things done because there is too much obstruction and that's just "reality". And oops, if it takes any money away from her donor's pockets, it's dead on arrival. Honestly, I think judging from her record that she can claim to be strong on women's rights, but nowhere do I see her strong support of civil rights. She's talking about incarceration, but that is nothing but rhetoric for the campaign, flipping on her earlier "tough lady on crime" stance.

http://www.attn.com/stories/1092/2016-candidates-private-prisons

Though the private prison industry swelled around the time she was FLOTUS, Clinton has remained notably quiet on the subject in the run-up to formally announcing her candidacy. It was only last year, in what many called her “strongest comments yet” regarding criminal justice, that she addressed the “hard truths” of racial discrimination and the need for criminal justice reform. “[D]espite all the progress we’ve made together, African-Americans, and most particularly, African-American men, are still more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes, and sentenced to longer prison terms,” she said at the Massachusetts conference for Women. Americans don’t break more laws than other nations, she said. “It is because we have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance. And I personally hope that these tragedies give us the opportunity to come together as a nation to find our balance again.”

Her speech was a marked departure from a 1994 Annual Women in Policing address, when she declared that “we need more police, we need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders…we need more prisons to keep violent offenders for as long as it takes to keep them off the streets.”

So where is this stellar record on civil rights and rights for African Americans that a couple of statements? I'm really trying to find out because I don't see it.

She's trying to be the pro immigrant candidate but there's a flop too

What I'm trying to ask is how can we be sure she will fight for ANY position, for any civil rights, for any improvements in the lives of African Americans and people of color? Do you think she will piss off all her working class white voters by saying cops are out of control? Remember the dustup over what Obama said about guns and how she jumped all over it that she just loved her some guns. And let's not forget all the racist shit from her 2008 campaign. But now she's the black community's champion?