One-on-one with Cynthia McKinney: ‘Returning power to the people’
Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney responds to why she left the Democratic Party, what motivates her to keep going in politics, how she plans to ‘inspire’ people with her presidency, whether she’s taking away black votes from Barack Obama, her positions on global conflicts, the potential for American military bases spread throughout Africa, and finally, her perspective on Haiti and Zimbabwe.
Excerpts from the interview in Final Call:
The reason that I am no longer a Democrat is because the leadership of the Democratic Party has pressed the Democratic Party in ways that are not consistent, nor reflective any longer of my values. So for example, the Democratic majority in Congress presented an agenda for its first 100 days. Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita were nowhere on that agenda. They also pressed for the continuation of spending for war and occupation. Peace is my value not complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of torture and crimes against the peace.
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I think it’s pretty clear that the reason we have this discussion in the corporate press about flip flopping on issues is because neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party truly represents the values of the vast majority of people who vote and those who don’t vote. Those who don’t vote don’t vote for a reason. That is because they feel that the system marginalizes, alienates and disfranchises them. What we want to do is to carry our message of real substantive truth and change into those communities who traditionally don’t vote. They have given up and what we would like to say to them is that our 5 percent campaign should be the mechanism by which your values can finally become addressed in the public discourse and represented in public policy.
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August 14th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Yes McKinney, return the power to us. Make us pay reparations