Labels

#SandraBland #SayHerName AFL-CIO African-Americans Anderson Cooper Arizona Atlanta Benjamin Dixon Show Bernie Dolls Bernie is Unelectable Bernie Music Bernie Sanders Quiz Bernie2016TV Bill de Blasio Bill Maher Birthday Black Lives Matter Boston Brunch with Bernie California Campaign Coverage Campaign Finance Reform Campaign Manager Campaign Photography Campaign Rally CampaignZero Campus Sexual Assault Bill Capitalism Cartoons Celebrity Endorsements Charlie Rose Chicago Climate Change Clinton/Obama Debate Highlights CNN College Tuition Colorado Comic Book Congressional Black Caucus Cornel West Cost of Proposals Criminal Justice Daniel Craig Danny Devito David Pakman Show DC Rally Death Penalty Debate Debates Democratic Socialism Deray DNC DOMA Donna Brazile Dreamers Drug Costs Economic Injustice Economic Justice Ed Schultz Elizabeth Warren En Espanol Endorsements Enough is Enough DC Rally Environment Evangelicals Events Exxon Face the Nation Fact Checking Flashback Friday Folk Album For-Profit Prisons Foreign Policy Full Interview Fundraising Global Warming Grassroots for Bernie Rally Gun Control Headlines Hillary Clinton Immigration Reform Indiana Infrastructure Plan Interview Iowa Iowa State Fair Iowa Straw Poll Iraq War Jeff Weaver Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Jesse Jackson Jesse Ventura Joe Biden Keep Hope Alive Keystone Pipeline Killer Mike Koch Brothers Labor Unions Larry Wilmore Las Vegas Latinos Laura Flanders Show LGBT Issues Liberty University Lil B Los Angeles Rally Maine Marcus Ferrell Marijuana Mark Ruffalo Mass Incarceration Media Meet the Press Mia Farrow Michael Eric Dyson Military Millenials MSNBC Music Video Monday NAACP National Security Nevada New Hampshire New Yorker Newswatch North Carolina Oil Companies Podcast Politics Nation Polls Pope Francis Prison Industry Profile Propaganda Puerto Rico Rachel Maddow Racial Justice Racism Rally Real People for Bernie Sanders Reddit Reno Republicans for Bernie Richard Wolff Ryan Lizza Sanders Staff Sarah Silverman SC Democratic Forum Senator Sanders Unfiltered Sexism SNL Soapbox Social Security Socialism South Carolina Speech Stephen Colbert Student Town Hall Sunday Funnies Susan Sarandon Symone D. Sanders Ta-Nehisi Coates Take Me To Church Talib Kweli Taxes Teamsters Tony Tig Town Hall Meeting TPP Trade Trump Tucson TV Ad Universal Healthcare Virginia Voting Rights Act Wall Street Wing Ding Dinner Wisconsin Women's Issues

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Southern Political Expert Dr. Adolphus Belk, Jr. on Senator Bernie Sanders

Retrieved from: http://vtdigger.org/2015/11/07/sanders-stumps-south-carolina-2/#.Vj4FYPGJTdA.reddit

By Jasper Craven
Dr. Adolphus Belk Jr., a Winthrop professor who specializes in U.S. racial politics, said the poll didn’t show antipathy from black voters towards Sanders, but simply demonstrated a “lack of familiarity” with the Vermont Senator.
Belk said that while Clinton does have an organizational edge over Sanders, the former First Lady doesn’t have the strongest record on mass incarceration, which is a major issue for some African-Americans. He pointed to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which was championed by then President Bill Clinton in the 90s.
“As far as former Secretary Clinton is concerned, this has been a tough issue to negotiate,” Belk said. “Now people are starting to look more critically at the 1994 crime bill which had a rather deleterious impact when you think about the growth of mass incarceration.”
Rep. Clyburn, long considered one of the most powerful U.S. Congressmen, said Clinton’s strong number in the state could change as more voters are introduced to Sanders (He is touring the state Saturday).
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 7, 2015 at 12:15 PM

    Excellent clarification of the facts. Hopefully, the mainstream media will have you on as a contributor to clear up their biased nonsense.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Minha MusicaNovember 7, 2015 at 5:42 PM

    Agreed

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)