Post by Logan on Apr 17, 2016 19:46:43 GMT -6
The Voice of God tells us that Hillary Clinton gets it. She has internalized the civil rights struggle of our time.
"She says their names . . . and makes their mothers' fight for justice her own," intones Morgan Freeman, cast often as the Almighty during his acting career, in a 30-second TV ad airing last week in the Philadelphia market for Clinton's presidential campaign.
Between those lines, Freeman and Clinton recite a partial litany of African Americans felled by gun violence and police misconduct: Trayvon Martin. Dontre Hamilton. Sandra Bland.
It was no accident that "Stand" was one of Clinton's first ads in Pennsylvania, or that she made sure to drop in on a group of black and Latino young men at a Kensington job-training program during a Philadelphia campaign stop this month.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160417_Hillary_Clinton_reaching_out_to_Pa__s_black_voters.html
"She says their names . . . and makes their mothers' fight for justice her own," intones Morgan Freeman, cast often as the Almighty during his acting career, in a 30-second TV ad airing last week in the Philadelphia market for Clinton's presidential campaign.
Between those lines, Freeman and Clinton recite a partial litany of African Americans felled by gun violence and police misconduct: Trayvon Martin. Dontre Hamilton. Sandra Bland.
It was no accident that "Stand" was one of Clinton's first ads in Pennsylvania, or that she made sure to drop in on a group of black and Latino young men at a Kensington job-training program during a Philadelphia campaign stop this month.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160417_Hillary_Clinton_reaching_out_to_Pa__s_black_voters.html