Super-Predators

[JustAnotherGen]

From this article:
Three Areas Where Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Her Husband’s Legacy

In one speech that year, she called kids in gangs “super-predators” with “no conscience, no empathy.”

Link I found that at: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/three-areas-where-hillary-clinton-is-running-against-her-hus?utm_term=.rwdywAdO8#.yfqJaGnAX


The actual video:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?69606-1/mrs-clinton-campaign-speech

Additional Text

“But we also have to have an organized effort against gangs, just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob. We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels. They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way but first we have to bring them to heel and the President has asked the FBI to launch a very concerted effort against gangs everywhere.”

SOS Clinton didn't call black kids Super-Predators - she called members of gangs Super-Predators.

Right?

[Kip Humphrey]

1. she called members of gangs, who happen to be PoC, Super-Predators -a term that should be applied to

the likes of Golden Sacks, not poor minority kids.

[leftofcool]

3. How many kids in the Crips or Bloods are POC?

You do understand that there are white gangs, Native American gangs, Latino gangs etc........ right?

[Kip Humphrey]

12. Of course. You do understand she called them "Super Predators" (point of the post), right?

[Digital Puppy]

7. Be careful, Kip...

she called members of gangs, who happen to be PoC, Super-Predators

...you might need a parachute or a zip-line to navigate that big-ass jump you just made.

Anymore pearls of wisdom responding to the speech overall? or to the OP which made (what I thought) an effective point as to how words and intent get twisted depending on who the messenger is.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. That is your interpretation,

which says a whole lot more about you than it does about Hillary.

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. Not all gang members are PoC, that the term Super-Predator could apply ...

http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Mfa55b35b1b16ac6b975a43acb002746co0&w=220&h=105&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&pid=3.1&rm=2

http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M47269d3d7b4c82456bb4529299768e73o0&w=133&h=100&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&pid=3.1&rm=2

[JustAnotherGen]

16. Another example

This one is pretty diverse

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. Or, we could go here ...

http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M7260966b2799e47434fcb3b0a6a3bb3co0&w=150&h=107&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&pid=3.1&rm=2

[JustAnotherGen]

18. Heres another

[leftofcool]

2. Members of gangs include white kids (crips and bloods) as well as others

[bettyellen]

4. Yep, it's like when many here talk about welfare- they assume a whole lot about it.

[msongs]

5. when somebody blows u away to get your cellphone try not to think of him/her as a super predator ok?

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Not even a cell phone

My cousin was murdered on April 13th 1991 by a little punk trying to get into a gang - bullet in his face for just a few dollars - left his car and gold watch.

Gang bangers in the 80's and 90's murdered a lot of innocent black young men and teenagers minding their own business doing the right thing and/or positive things.

[betsuni]

6. Thank you. Was wondering about this but too lazy to look it up.

Yet another thing taken out of context and the meaning twisted.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I served on a jury

Where someone linked in their vote to a bunch of articles that had her assign it to young black males.

She was talking to gang members who terrorized black people in back communities. She cared.

[monicaangela]

8. I guess Racial Code Words work every time

8 Sneaky Racial Code Words and Why Politicians Love Them:

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/03/_racial_code_words_8_term_politicians_love.2.html

[JustAnotherGen]

13. They are also used by white people

Who have fear of blacks, Latinos, Muslims, etc etc in common and every day conversation.

I've never heard the casual bigot use the term Super -Predator to describe black men.

They prefer 'thug'

We actually had uh - some stupidity about it in GD during the Michael Brown case.

[monicaangela]

14. Thug is a new thing and yes you are correct, now they use thug as well.

In the list:


5. 'Law and Order'


This phrase, says López, is a way to draw on an image of minorities as criminals that was used by both Reagan and Clinton. He points to an inverse relationship in Congress between conversations about civil rights and criminal law enforcement. "What you see in the 1960s is that opposition to civil rights becomes 'what we really need is law and order, to crack down'. " Of course, the latter is less controversial and, at least on its surface, avoids the issue of race.