For many, the completely unique experiences of African-American often goes unnoticed in the political zeitgeist.
Now, as Hillary Clinton battles Donald Trump with hopes of winning the keys to the White House, she has been accused of using the African-American electorate to win the votes she needs to secure the power some believe she doesn’t use to support them.
Why the founder of the peaceful ‘Black Lives Matter’s movement concurs?
Alicia Garza‘s estimation of Clinton’s supposedly habitual use and abuse of black people below…
Garza, who founded the organisation, had this to say about Hillary in a recent interview with ‘Bloomberg‘:
Early on, [Hillary] would say, ‘Yes, black lives matter,’ but she wouldn’t acknowledge her role in processes that fundamentally showed black lives did not matter.
I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that we are not led by Donald Trump. That being said, there’s lots to be engaged in at the state level, the local level. We’re going to continue to push. We’re not indebted to or endeared to the Democratic Party.
When the publication asked her how she felt about Bill Clinton’s claim that the ‘Matters’ movement was “defending the people who kill the lives you say matter”, she explained:
I was angry about that for about a month—seriously, like every single day. It’s reprehensible for him to defend the impacts his policies have had on our communities. The Clintons use black people for votes, but then don’t do anything for black communities after they’re elected. They use us for photo ops.
She went on to add:
The biggest misconception about ‘Black Lives Matters’ is that we only care about black people. We are clear that all lives matter, but we live in a world where that’s not actually happening in practice. So if we want to get to the place where all lives matter, then we have to make sure that black lives matter, too.
She isn’t the only political activist who questions the Democratic party’s treatment of her community.