Her answer, praised by CNN as “powerful,” was a wandering narrative about how, while white privilege didn’t spare the questioner unemployment, the loss of her house, her son to opioids, and her soul itself at the hands of rapacious inequality, the black folk in Youngstown had it worse—’cause the supremacist cops would bust a black kid for weed while a white kid would walk away. It was the perfect answer for a progressive media hit. It was the worst possible answer if a candidate actually wanted to win some of those Ohio votes. Gillibrand stumbled on to say she that she understood families in the community were suffering, “but that’s not what this conversation is about.”
So, that muppet is talking to a mother who has last two sons to opioids while her town has spiraled into a deep depression and Kirsten Gillibrand's response is the black kid smoking weed had it tougher........?
I guess we know whose vote Kirsten Gillibrand wants.
[–] Smurfality [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
So, that muppet is talking to a mother who has last two sons to opioids while her town has spiraled into a deep depression and Kirsten Gillibrand's response is the black kid smoking weed had it tougher........?
I guess we know whose vote Kirsten Gillibrand wants.
The whole article is worth a quick read.