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Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton

Well the mod does see some of those responses at least review worthy. So clearly it isn't just us being confused or misinterpreting things.

Majority of those responses don't belong in proper debates or discussions, but it happens so often here where we see it as the norm or excuse it.
 
While I support Bernie Sanders, I realize that nominating him is riskier than nominating Hillary Clinton, despite what the polls are saying now. Hillary is a known quantity to 99% of the voting public, Bernie is not. Any poll this far out from the election concerning who people would vote for in November are not reliable. Nevertheless, virtually everyone has formed an opinion about Hillary, not so Bernie, and thus, I think polls regarding her are slightly more reliable.

With that being said, what drives the difference in support for Bernie and Hillary between white millennials and African-American voters is their assessments of the risks involved. White millennials have little to lose in voting for Bernie. The historic trajectory for poor and working class whites was an improving economic situation that moved many into the middle and upper classes. Each generation did better than the last until recently. Thus, their historic memory is that the steady gains have been lost and they see little opportunity. The history of African-Americans has been one of constant political and economic gains and losses. After the Civil War, they achieved rights and made economic gains, only to see them lost by the imposition of Jim Crow laws. The Great Migration brought millions of African Americans north to work in manufacturing jobs in unionized plants, only to see global trade and technology wipe out many of those jobs. The Civil Rights movement secured enormous gains in political and voting rights, as well as better access to education and professional jobs and real political power. Under Bill Clinton, African Americans made huge economic gains. We elected Barack Obama. But the economic crash of 2008 wiped out their economic gains and Republican efforts at voter suppression and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by a Conservative SCOTUS majority threaten to undo hard won political power and influence. Thus, African-American voters are, I suspect, motivated by both what has been lost, and what further losses they could suffer under another Republican administration and, thus, they are unwilling to gamble their future on a Sanders presidency and see Hillary as the safer choice. And who, in their right mind, can blame them?
 
Black unemployment is still the highest; Obama has not tried to reduce that. Either Cruz or Trump will do more to help blacks. But I am not allowed to say why.
 
TX-Beau said:
Poor Bush the Father, forgotten again.
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He was not included in the analysis, because he was a one-term president. (The image is clickable.)
 
Unemployment among blacks was 9.5 percent during the third quarter of 2015 compared to only 4.5 percent for whites. While the discrepancy in unemployment has been volatile, the current gap is actually slightly larger than the one that existed 15 years ago or in the years directly preceding the recession.

Why is this? Many people point to education as a major cause of this disparity. A higher percentage of white Americans obtain college degrees: 41 percent, compared to the black population’s 22 percent. But data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) show that differences in education can’t explain fully the entirety of the unemployment gap. According to research from Valerie Wilson, an economist at EPI, for black Americans with the same level of education level as white Americans, the unemployment rate is consistently nearly twice as high.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/black-white-unemployment-gap/421497/
So. Two points.


One is that under Obama, since 2013....the black unemployment rate has fallen from 14.8% to 9.5%. A drop of 5.3% in the last few years.

The drop in white unemployment has only been 3.8%...so theoretically, one could make the argument that blacks are doing better in gaining jobs than whites.

So Benvolio is wrong. Apparently Obama has single handedly gone out and found jobs for lots of people. Because if he is responsible for everyone not having a job...he must be the one who is responsible for when they do.

The other point is that the spread between black and white unemployment has grown again to slightly more than a factor of 2.
 
Oh...and I didn't look up what the black unemployment rate was at the end of each president's term, but under 10% is pretty consistent with the figures for Presidents who didn't have to deal with the worst recession since the 30's.
 
Come on Rareboy, I won't say the verboten, but you and I both know where he was trying to go with that "Obama takes jobs from blacks" meme.
 
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