Sorry for the repeat diary. I found a much better video and a writer who I think is very good. I wanted to share her site and give her some advertising. She is apparently a HRC fan so go back and read some of her previous work if you are so inclined. Her name is Anita Finlay. She covers Clinton heavily, but also the republican candidates and social and economic issues. For instance there is a great piece on homeless vets......
Here is her website
Here is the youtube video of HRC's best speech to date IMO.
Below is some text from the Speech and from Anita's analysis.......
Hillary Clinton’s speech at 2015’s Conference of Mayors is the best I have heard her give. Addressing difficult truths on race and gun violence in today’s America, the former Secretary of State was forceful, insightful, tender and on point. Those who pretend she was politicizing the massacre of nine African American women and men at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston might have agendas of their own. ........(cut)....... Hillary shared uncomfortable and documented facts in the differences in treatment between black and white Americans, challenging us all not to look away. Digging deeper, Clinton noted “Our problem is not all kooks and klansmen. It’s the cruel joke that goes unchallenged…”
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I have rarely seen anyone connect the threads on family, faith, economy, justice, civic involvement, bipartisanship and a practical government partnership with local authorities as well as Hillary Clinton does here. I can offer no stronger endorsement than to ask that you listen to her speech in its entirety and judge for yourself.
transcript thanks to shallow nation
Today, our thoughts are also with our friend Joe Riley and the people of Charleston. Joe’s a good man and a great mayor, and his leadership has been a bright light during such a dark time.
You know, the passing of days has not dulled the pain or the shock of this crime. Indeed, as we have gotten to know the faces and names and stories of the victims, the pain has only deepened.
Nine faithful women and men, with families and passions and so much left to do.
As a mother, a grandmother, a human being, my heart is bursting for them. For these victims and their families. For a wounded community and a wounded church. For our country struggling once again to make sense of violence that is fundamentally senseless, and history we desperately want to leave behind.
Yesterday was Juneteenth, a day of liberation and deliverance. One-hundred and fifty years ago, as news of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation spread from town to town across the South, free men and women lifted their voices in song and prayer.
Congregations long forced to worship underground, like the first Christians, joyfully resurrected their churches.
In Charleston, the African Methodist Episcopal Church took a new name: Emanuel. “God is with us.”
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It makes no sense that we wouldn’t come together to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, or people suffering from mental illnesses, even people on the terrorist watch list. That doesn’t make sense, and it is a rebuke to this nation we love and care about.
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Here are some facts.
In America today, Blacks are nearly three times as likely as whites to be denied a mortgage.
In 2013, the median wealth of Black families was around $11,000. For white families, it was more than $134,000.
Nearly half of all Black families have lived in poor neighborhoods for at least two generations, compared to just 7 percent of white families.
African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men, 10 percent longer for the same crimes in the federal system.
In America today, our schools are more segregated than they were in the 1960s.
How can any of that be true? How can it be true that Black children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids? Five hundred percent!
More than a half century after Dr. King marched and Rosa Parks sat and John Lewis bled, after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and so much else, how can any of these things be true? But they are.
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I stand here ready to work with each and every one of you to support your efforts, to stand with you, to put the task of moving beyond the past at the head of our national agenda. I’m excited about what we can accomplish together.
I thank you for what you’ve already done and I look forward to all that you will be doing in the future.
Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America.
Please go and read the text, I have cut so much out. The bold is of course mine.
I understand that thousands of people lurk here and either are not members or are members that never or hardly ever comment. I have posted this video and text again for them. If you find it annoying to see this same information in a new diary I am truly sorry. But the last diary had a really bad video and I felt terrible about it. I know that Bernie supporters outnumber the rest of us. Most of you are really nice people dedicated to a great guy you believe in and that you will vote for Hillary if she is the candidate as I will vote for Sanders if he is. So please indulge me my efforts to get this speech seen.