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otohara

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2. Who Can We Thank For Driving Down Minority Millennial Vote?
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 07:07 PM
Dec 2016

Last edited Thu Dec 1, 2016, 08:17 PM - Edit history (1)

Normally I don't think celebrities have much of an effect but with social media and the freedom to say hateful things in front of large crowds to new voters who are already mistrusting of the government had an effect this time around.

I heard more about these people than hero's of the civil rights movement like Dolores Huerta who were supporting Hillary.
But they're old and old is out ...

Killer Mike: “If I could find a picture of you from 51 years ago chained to a black woman, protesting [against] segregation, and I know that 51 years later you’re willing to fold your arms, hold your head and listen to two black girls yell and scream – rightfully so – as opposed to telling them to ‘shut up’ after you’ve read your own words … as opposed to someone who will tell you ‘later’, when it comes to your children dying in the streets, I know that the only person that I have the conscience to vote for is Bernard Sanders. I know that the only person my logical beautiful black mind will allow me to vote for is Senator Bernie Sanders.”

Later said no difference between Hillary/Trump refused to vote.

Azealia Banks "Hillary has been GROOMED for the presidency. She's another one of the establishments robots here to carry out an agenda" and "Hillary talks to black people as if we're children or pets. i can't stand herrrrrrr."

Cenk Uygur I’m getting an establishment, no change candidate.

Tila Tequila"Hilary Clinton is a clone. The real one got killed a long time ago.

Roserio Dawson "If she isn't a 'natural' politician (disingenuous much?) she's def a practiced/rehearsed one."

There were white celebrities who drove down millennial votes too. The usual suspects...

In the end - it's minorities who are now suffering the backlash - including Jewish folks for that we can thank David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald for their skills in hateful rhetoric. Muslims, African American's and Hispanics are getting yelled at in public...and kids in schools are getting targeted too.

My son works with kids at our public school system - a kid from Uganda was afraid to say where he was from - he whispered it to my son and looked around to see if anyone saw him.








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