As you probably know by now former President Bill Clinton got into a raucous shouting match with Black Lives Matter protesters while speaking at a rally on behalf of HIllary Clinton in Philadelphia.
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“I did something yesterday in Philadelphia that I nearly want to apologize for”.
The protester who heckled Clinton said she was not interested in hearing his explanations, however.
Hillary Clinton, who many say has been forced to address criminal justice because of Black Lives Matter protesters, has said she is in favor of overhauling an obviously broken system.
One person held up a sign that read, “Hillary is a murderer”, while another yelled that she should be tried for “crimes against humanity”.
So on the rare occasion when Bill Clinton actually speaks truth to power it isn’t going to matter much for Hillary.
This super predator myth that was debunked long ago is now revived by President Bill Clinton in 2016, recycling the same racial stereotypes. “We had 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals”, he said, referring to the support he received on the measure from the black community and leaders at the time.
Mr Clinton told supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday he likes protests, but it “bothers” him when activists drown him out. It was from gangs, making money out of cocaine, taking teenage kids, hopping them up, giving them guns and telling them to go kill other teenagers to prove their bones. Those sentencing requirements are considered at least partially responsible for the mass incarceration epidemic today, an epidemic that disproportionately affects blacks.
“I rather vigorously defended my wife, as I am wont to do”, he said. Clinton spent more than 10 minutes defending both his policy and his wife’s 1996 use of the term “super-predators” to describe young people accused of committing crime.
Civil rights activist and author Michelle Alexander said Clinton’s remarks reinforced a false premise that black community members and lawmakers were “asking for “get tough” measures and nothing else back in the 1990s” to respond to the country’s drug and crime epidemic. “Here’s the thing. I like protesters, but the ones that won’t let you answer are afraid of the truth”.
“Who do you think those lives were that mattered?”
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He touted Hillary Clinton’s work on school desegregation in Alabama with the Children’s Defense Fund at age 27, saying she was instrumental to ending a practice that allowed white school leaders to exclude black students.
