Bill Clinton Black Lives Matter Clash Reveals How The Clintons Really Feel About Black People

[votesparks]

Black Lives Matter protesters were told by Bill Clinton that they were defending murderers and drug dealers while speaking in Pennsylvania at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton, who in 1994 referred to young black people as 'superpredators' who must be 'brought to heel.'

Jimmy Dore breaks it down.

[Ken Burch]

1. if only he had said this the day before Super Tuesday. n/t.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. I don't think it matters. Other notable blacks were calling out the Clintons, Hillary was shushing

hushing and lecturing BLM. Blacks are the most loyal Democratic voter block. Black leadership was driving a wedge between blacks and Bernie. Bernie was a fake, Johnny come lately Democrat. And "Socialist" was a deal breaker. Despite everything, Bill was the first "black President" still resonates, and Hillary had built meaningful relationships.

I thought for a while, if only Super Tuesday took place in May, sigh... After everything thing I've read, I now accept there's absolutely no chance for Bernie in the Deep South.

[votesparks]

2. Jimmy Dore

is an American treasure.

[Segami]

3. Ashley Williams on confronting Hillary Clinton and her use of "super-predators"

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. The Clintons created and promoted

the Crime Bill and Welfare Reform in order make the Democratic party "Republican Lite". This is what the Third Way / DLC was all about. So instead of two parties we really had one. Today we are still trying to cleanse that mess out of the Dem party and return it to FDR values which did so much to raise the quality of life before and after WW2. And of course those same ideas work any time they are put into practice.

But returning to the intersection with Black Lives Matter. Young AAs realize that it is entirely pointless to go into the streets to protest institutional racism, if they are going to continue to elect the very people who created that institutional racism.

You (general you) can't get rid of what you keep electing.

Dems of all races are starting to realize this, and that is the movement that Sanders is leading. In exactly the same way, (mostly) young AAs are beginning to realize this too. We have to quit voting the perpetrators back into office. And it isn't just the Clintons, it's their whole network of Dems who support them. (Most of the super delegates.)

So this election is very useful in SHOWING us which elected officials are part of that network and that philosophy which is so damaging to all of us... because they step forward and tell us who they are by insisting on supporting HRC. And there have been some very sad surprises in that group, but it's better to know who your enemies are than to not know.

They all need to go and they need to go now or just as soon as we can manage it. And you can't vote someone out incrementally, they are either in or out.

I know most of us know this, but some younger people might not be so clear on how we got to this place and why we feel the way we do.

[amborin]

6. great post

[dana_b]

7. he and Hillary love to wag their fingers at people

and it doesn't matter if they're wrong they wag those fingers anyway.

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. Nice of Bill to share his real opinions. The mask came off. It was something very ugly under there.

Bill was like shut up and listen when I'm talking.

[jfern]

9. Anyone who looks at Bill's record gets very scared

NAFTA, DOMA, DADT, DMCA, mickey mouse copyright act, welfare reform, telecommunications deregulation, repeal of glass Steagall. And that's just what I remember off the top of my head.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Ricky Ray Rector.

Like that wasn't a sign of what he was willing to do to get elected.