All White Democratic presidential candidates debate reparations, race, Flint's water crisis, and more in Night 1 of the 2nd Democratic debate in Detroit, which follows Trump's fallout with Black Democratic congress persons, Rev Al Sharpton.....Long shot presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, also an author and activist, stood out during the CNN-sponsored debate and said congress should give Blacks reparations and their 40 acres and a mule and that the mistreatment of people of color and the Flint water crisis represent "the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry"....Williamson said that President Trump is perpetuating "a dark psychic force of collectivized hatred" in the country....Night 2 is Wednesday night in Detroit and includes Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog
Top row from left: Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, f ormer Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke, and Montana Governor Steve Bullock Bottom row from left: Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, a uthor and activist Marianne Williamson, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and f ormer Maryland Congressman John Delaney By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com . Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-o...