My Belgian friend, with all due respect I disagree with this. Her "scandals" were in the news just as much as his (emails, Bill on the tarmac, pneumonia, Benghazi, Wikileaks etc etc etc), and even worse they weren't ever properly debunked. She was repeatedly called a poor candidate, despite being the most qualified candidate ever. I can't believe I am in here caping for Hilary, but to say the media had an overt bias towards Hilary is misleading to me
, to the point he thinks that the Dems should stop talking about it all together. 
All the political pundits from the likes of CNN and MSNBC and all national newspapers said she would beat Trump by a landslide and were 99% sure of it .
I think we may also differ in our view on bias. As you've probably noticed reading international press it's a little different from American coverage.
What happened with that guy anyway? Did his ancestors end him up with taking a forced leave?
They didn't say explicitly that it was a political act, but that's the sense I got from talking to alot of people who didn't vote. And if were being real here, people from these communities vote all the time on some level and they're issues still don't get addressed on the local, state, and federal levels. There's only so much grassroots activists can do to organize people. Most of the time, the people who are trying to organize these communities are activists with little resources who are fighting forces that have a financial and political machine behind them.
I feel you on that. I can look at other situations happening around the world to other disfranchised people and not marginalize what's going on here. You can also look at Joseph Kabila and his reign of terror in the DRC and how he's overseen countless Congolese murders and the displacement of Congolese lands in favor of cultivating resources that the Congolese people won't see a cent of. Just to clarify, the people I talked to didn't say the act of not voting was a political act, but that's the sense I got from them in our conversations.At this very moment, there are a lot of places in this world where people have their voices being trampled on. Watch what's going on in Gambia (president lost recent elections: concedes to his opponent the day of, only to backtrack and call the elections illegitimate the next day)
Silence is not a political act. It is EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. The subtext of Trump sending thanks to non-voting blacks is the same as those who want to limit Black people's participation in American politics: "know your place" They'd prefer you stay home while they gladly collect your taxes, but if you speak up, they're not against keeping you silent forever.
lol, They've done a great job of sanitizing and whitewashing MLK's image. They froze him in time at "I have a dream" and caused people to forget just how radical he really was. I really didn't learn about the radical side of King until I was an adult.
