“Now, I think your votes count more than ever” said Clinton in NAACP speechTop Stories

July 19, 2016 12:23
“Now, I think your votes count more than ever” said Clinton in NAACP speech

Hillary Clinton tried to take some of the spotlight and energy away from the Republican National Convention. She planned to start a new voter-registration effort while rallying NAACP members few miles away with a blunt call to reform America’s police departments.

The Democratic presidential nominee at the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati, said, “Many African-Americans fear the police,” She urged to end the “systemic racism.”

The remarks followed the controversy regarding the police-involved shootings of black Americans, but also a number of deadly violence aimed at law enforcement including the most recent death of three officers in Baton Rouge, La.

Clinton stated against of such violence, “this madness has to stop. We have difficult, painful and essential work ahead of us to repair the (damage) between the police and the community,” At the same time, she called for police to reform, as well as she urged for the reform in the U.S. criminal judicial system in which blacks are disproportionally incarcerated.

Clinton remarked in the beginning of the Republican convention in Cleveland and her presumptive rival Donald Trump, “we all know about that other convention happening up in Cleveland, but this is where I’d rather be,” Clinton said. “I’d rather be right here with you.”

she told, arguing Trump after declining an invitation to speak at the event “The Republican nominee will do the exact opposite. He plays coy with white supremacists. … He demeans women. And he wants to ban an entire religion from entering the country.”

Clinton announced a nationwide, grassroots effort to register 3 million more voters, “Now, I think your votes count more than ever,”

The goal of the plan is to get the newly registered voters to go to the polls on Election Day. The efforts should include online registration as well as outreach efforts in such places as youth baseball games, beauty shops and street corners.

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By Prakriti Neogi

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