Hillary Clinton knew that racial equality would be a huge issue in this year’s election. Even her website has all of her plans for people to see. According to an article by the New York Times, Hillary Clinton gave a speech on how exactly she would allocate money for racial equality.
Follow The Money
In the Article, Hillary Clinton talks about how she has a $125 billion dollar plan to help change racial inequality in minority communities by creating new jobs, reforming education, and re-entering society after incarceration. The plan calls for 20 billion to create new jobs for young people. Also she will create after school programs to end, “school to prison pipeline.” This way parents know that there children are not running around and getting into trouble. Clinton does a great job at exciting her audience’s values of employment and education. Clinton will then allocate $5 billion for re-entry programs so that people could become active members of society. According to the NAACP, nearly 1 million African Americans are incarcerated, and the re-entering programs that Clinton proposed would appeal to her target audience of African Americans. Lastly, Clinton states that another $25 billion dollars will help aid entrepreneurs in lower income areas. If the small businesses around the community can successful, then it could up lift the community as a whole. The rest of the money would go education and other sectors. Clinton understands that these lapses in funding and programs in minority community is a problem, and she says,
“These are not only problems of economic inequality, these are problems of racial inequity, and we need to say that loudly and clearly.”
Clinton understand the concept of speaker-message-audience. She knows which audience she wants to talk to and knows exactly what she is going to say. In this case, Clinton tells her audience how and how much money she is willing to give for racial justice. All of this continues her narrative of racial justice.