Friday, November 17, 2017

#StrongerTogether ! "A Conversation with President and Secretary Clinton Saturday, November 18 (Tomorrow!)



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 "A Conversation with President and Secretary Clinton

Saturday, Nov. 18 – Doors open at 3:30 p.m.; Program begins at 4:30 p.m.
Statehouse Convention Center, Governor’s Ballroom 
in Little Rock, Arkansas!

(See live stream link below)

The Clinton School and Clinton Foundation are pleased to host a special conversation with President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton, moderated by James Carville, for the next Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture. Twenty-five years after Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd President of the United States, the Clintons will take a look back at the 1992 campaign, their time in the White House, and their dedication to public service. ... "

You can find more information in the original press release here

According to the Clinton School of Public Policy it seems the event will be live streamed here


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"The Seeds of Trump's Victory Were Sown the Moment Obama Won

This is white America's reaction to the death of the post-racial myth.

By Joy-Ann Reid

… President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.

For this group of Americans, Trump has been the corrective.

... Embedded in Obama’s political resilience, however, was a growing racial polarization that would make the heady 2016 predictions of Democratic inevitability in the White House inoperable. With Obama’s double victories, the seeds of a backlash were sown.


The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of “you lie” from the well of Congress as he spoke to a joint session, to the unprecedented spectacle of American conservatives rooting against their own country being awarded the Olympic Games.

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things. 

Speaking broadly, Black America waited eagerly for him to speak to Black pain — to articulate the ongoing sorrow and impatience of black men and women amid the struggle for full humanity in a country that desired our labor but never wanted us.

White America, again broadly, wanted absolution. It wanted the man who was equal parts black and white — and whose blackness felt external to the America of slavery and Jim Crow and Red. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — to wave a wand over the country and declare its past racial sins forgiven by virtue of his election alone. That act, in the minds of many, had wiped the racial slate clean. There should be no more complaining from black folk.

… Obama couldn’t do that, of course.

It’s no wonder, then, that Trump’s crassness with women didn’t damn his candidacy, even with self-proclaimed Christian conservatives. Indeed, he represents a return to an earlier time, when not just people of color, but women knew their place — which is not in the White House.

“The age of the pajama boy,” in the words of former Trump national security adviser Sebastian Gorka, had given way to the return of the (white) “alpha-male.”

“Economic anxiety” didn’t elect Trump. The desire of millions of Americans, from the farms to the suburbs, to see Mexican immigrants deported, a wall erected across the U.S. southern border and Muslims banned from entering this country did.

It’s an uncomfortable reality that Obama’s America tried to confront, only to be met with hostility. It’s one that Trump’s America has given real and potentially devastating power. … “

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