At the Detroit NAACP Annual 61st dinner on Sunday, Hillary Clinton bemoaned systemic economic and social problems.
“Something is wrong when the median wealth for black families is a tiny fraction of that for white families,” said Clinton.
She lamented a long list of inequalities between races, particularly as they relate to crime. “Something is wrong when young black kids are arrested for petty crimes while white kids who do the same things aren’t. And when black men are far more likely to be stopped by the police, charged with crimes, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.”
“These inequities are wrong, they’re immoral, they’re un-American, and they have to end,” asserted Clinton. “That’s why I’m proposing a new comprehensive commitment to equity in opportunity for all communities in America. Real plans to create jobs. Hundreds of billions of dollars in new investments in cities like Detroit, including 20 billion aimed specifically at jobs for young people. Because the unemployment rate is way too high in too many places. We’ve got to close that gap.”
Barack Obama has been president for the past seven years.
