The Clintons were at or near the pinnacle of political power from 1992 until 2009.

[cherokeeprogressive]

When Hillary Clinton describes her husband's administration, she says "we". So, let's think of her as co-President during that time. She then went on to serve two terms in the Senate. She's the self-proclaimed "progressive who gets things done".

16 years holding the reins of power. How much better did she make black lives during that time? What bills did she introduce or co-sponsor during her time as the "progressive who gets things done" that made black lives better?

[dsc]

1. lowest black unemployment

lowest black poverty, most black millionaires, most black owned business, highest black graduation rate, highest percentage and number of blacks with advanced degrees. All happened in the period you deride.

[onehandle]

2. Way to ruin a tirade.

...heh.

[JonLeibowitz]

3. lowest black unemployment -- unemployment figures exclude incarcerated individuals

The period also saw record rates of black incarceration.

Sad how that works out.

[tblue37]

4. Highest rate if black incarceration, and the black unemplyment rate was 42% if you count those

who were locked up or who still couldn't get a job after release because they had a felony record. And much of that increased incarceration rate was caused by the war on drugs (which increased incarceration for all races and made the US #1 in terms of imprisoning huge swaths of our population) and by the unjust racial disparities in arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarceration (as well as *length* of incarceration) for drug offenses, including for personal use, not selling.

This us all detailed by Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness) in her article in The Nation:

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/

From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted—and Hillary Clinton supported—decimated black America.

[ThePhilosopher04]

6. We also have record levels of poverty and incarceration

The true measure of success or failure in a free society. Is not how things are going at the top, bUT how things are going at the bottom.

[dsc]

7. the poverty rate was the lowest in history

not the highest. You are just making crap up.

[karynnj]

5. actually until at least 2012 and arguably the present

HRC was SoS and Bill Clinton was given a very key assignment and convention specs in 2012. Even now, other than Obama himself, who would you label a power in the Democratic party?