Here's Why Black People Should Think Twice Before Voting For Hillary Clinton [View all]

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Michelle Alexander, the author Of "The New Jim Crow," outlines the presidential candidate's support for some questionable policies.

Eighty percent of black Democratic voters intended to cast their ballots for the 2016 presidential candidate in August 2015 -- and not much has changed since then. But with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) becoming a serious opponent for Clinton in the race to the Democratic nomination, many African-Americans are asking if the former Secretary of State really deserves the black vote.

Author and legal scholar Michelle Alexander doesn’t think so.

"What have the Clintons done to earn such devotion? Did they take extreme political risks to defend the rights of African Americans?" the author of The New Jim Crow asks in a new essay for The Nation. "Did they courageously stand up to right-wing demagoguery about black communities? Did they help usher in a new era of hope and prosperity for neighborhoods devastated by deindustrialization, globalization, and the disappearance of work?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-black-voters_us_56ba797fe4b08ffac12328f0

I would add to the points made by this author the racist comments that Bill Clinton made after his wife lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 South Carolina primary.

And yes, maybe I don't understand because I am not black myself. I get that. I cannot walk in a black person's shoes. But I am an Asian American gay man so I do know what it is like to be a minority living in this country since I am a member of two minority groups myself. And I don't think that the Clinton's have dome much for Asians and LGBT's either for that matter.