AS THE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON POTUS FOR 2016 WORRIES ABOUT CONVINCING THE BLACK YOUTH ABOUT THEIR FUTURE WITHOUT JOBS AS THE PRESENT DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO CREATE SINCE IDEOLOGY INSTEAD OF BUSINESS TRUMPS THE SANITY OF CREATING THEM - INSTEAD RHETORIC IS ALL THAT IS PROVIDED THAT ALL VOTES MUST BE COUNTED INSTEAD OF SUBSTANCE SUCH AS THE TAX IS TOO D*MN HIGH FOR SMALL BUSINESSES TO CREATE JOBS - AS THE GROWTH ENGINE OF SMALL BUSINESS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE DEMOCRAT BHO WITH IDEOLOGY LEGISLATION OF DESTRUCTION OF JOB CREATION - HOW IS THIS GOING TO BE ANY DIFFERENT UNDER ANOTHER DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP

When a handful of liberal advocacy organizations convened a series of focus groups with young black voters last month, the assessments of Donald J. Trump were predictably unsparing.

But when the participants were asked about Hillary Clinton, their appraisals were just as blunt and nearly as biting.

“What am I supposed to do if I don’t like him and I don’t trust her?” a millennial black woman in Ohio asked. “Choose between being stabbed and being shot? No way!”

“She was part of the whole problem that started sending blacks to jail,” a young black man, also from Ohio, observed about Mrs. Clinton.

“He’s a racist, and she is a liar, so really what’s the difference in choosing both or choosing neither?” another young black woman from Ohio said.

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Young African-Americans, like all voters their age, are typically far harder to drive to the polls than middle-aged and older Americans. Yet with just over two months until Election Day, many Democrats are expressing alarm at the lack of enthusiasm, and in some cases outright resistance, some black millennials feel toward Mrs. Clinton.

Their skepticism is rooted in a deep discomfort with the political establishment that they believe the 68-year-old former first lady and secretary of state represents. They share a lingering mistrust of Mrs. Clinton and her husband over criminal justice issues. They are demanding more from politicians as part of a new, confrontational wave of black activism that has arisen in response to police killings of unarmed African-Americans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/us/politics/young-blacks-voice-skepticism-on-hillary-clinton-worrying-democrats.html?_r=0