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08-14-2016 11:47 AM |
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In their speeches on racial issues, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have made an argument that President Obama rarely has: white Americans in particular need to change their views and perspectives to fix the nation's racial problems.
"We white Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day," Clinton said last month at the NAACP's annual convention.
Kaine, in a speech Thursday at the Progressive National Baptist Convention in New Orleans, went further, saying that on racial issues there is "work that all Americans have to do, and I will say especially white Americans."
Kaine said, arguing that Clinton would push to fight housing discrimination if she is elected president.
That Kaine and Clinton are speaking about racial issues is not surprising. Getting a large, enthusiastic backing from African-Americans is important to the Democratic ticket winning in states like North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. Clinton campaigned alongside the mothers of black men who died in police-involved shootings earlier this year and had them as featured speakers during the Democratic National Convention.
from NBC
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