Thanks to Karen Finney and Darren Sands of
Buzzfeed! Hillary met with Black Lives Matter activists today. Here is an account from Darren.
Black
Lives Matter activists, including a black trans activist named Cherno
Biko, talked with Clinton on Friday in Washington, D.C., in a
closed-door meeting.
posted on Oct. 9, 2015
Darren Sands
BuzzFeed News Reporter
WASHINGTON
— Hillary Clinton said in a private meeting with Black Lives Matter
activists that the current plight of violence against trans women of
color is a “national crisis” she hopes to help end should she become
president, according to activists who attended the meeting.
Following
the meeting, activists said they were impressed with Clinton’s command
of the issue. Just this week, Keisha Jenkins, a 22-year-old transgender
woman from Philadelphia, was brutally beaten and shot. A recent report
published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, in concert with Trans
People of Color Coalition, said Jenkins was the 20th transgender person
killed this year alone.
“I think it’s really important to have
her voice as a part of this conversation,” Cherno Biko, a trans activist
who was at the meeting told BuzzFeed News. “We need all hands on deck.”
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