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Bernie Anoa Chonga and Hillary Clinton

Democratic Party: Much has been made of data showing young women ditching Clinton for her Democratic Party rival, Bernie Anoa Chonga, recently quoted in the Guardian voicing her opposition to Clinton, possibly spoke for a whole slew of so-called third-wave feminists when she said, There are a lot of issues that affect low-income women, immigrant women and women of colour that her brand of doing things is not going to address, according to Toronto Star. For many women in the U.S. and in this country, mainstream feminism is still a subject of white-on-white discrimination. By Shree Paradkar Toronto Star Sun., May 29, 2016 If Barack Obama presidency ended up showing us that racism is truly alive and well in the United States, Hillary Clinton run for the White House has exposed the deepening fault lines within Western feminism. It a rallying cry by middle-class white women for the rights of women like themselves that happens to benefit other women who attain that level of privilege. The plight of our missing and murdered indigenous women is not a cultural issue. The Toronto Filipina nannies' struggles to be unified with their families is not just an immigration issue. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.