Black Lives Matter's View of Hillary Clinton's Responsibility.

[Uncle Joe]

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122524/blacklivesmatter-activists-disrupt-hillary-clinton-event

The group's remarks and questions varied a bit from the script they prepared, which focused on criminal justice policies Clinton had supported while her husband was president, but not in tone. "I asked specifically about her and her family's involvement in the War on Drugs at home and abroad, and the implications that has had on communities of color and especially black people in terms of white supremacist violence," Yancey told me in an interview after the meeting. "And I wanted to know how she felt about her involvement in those processes.”

Asked whether Clinton actually proposed policies in the meeting, Jones said, "Not that I recall, no. In fact, I know that she didn’t because she was projecting that what the Black Lives Matter movement needs to do is X,Y, and Z—to which we pushed back [to say] that it is not her place to tell the Black Lives Matter movement or black people what to do, and that the real work doesn’t lie in the victim-blaming that that implies. And that was a rift in the conversation." Jones said that the meeting concluded without any aggression, and that the meeting was "respectful."

As first lady, Clinton lobbied on behalf of her husband's tough-on-crime stance, telling a gathering of female police officers in 1994 that a pending crime bill would "make a difference in your lives as police officers and in the lives of the communities you serve." In The New Jim Crow, author Michelle Alexander cites sentencing policies passed during the Clinton administration as playing a decisive role in the explosion of the U.S. prison population.

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"We were going in there with the understanding that we were combating systems, but we're also encountering a person with a higher level of responsibility for the way that the systems are today than most anyone in the presidential race," Jones said. "We went in there with that understanding, and chose to press her on her personal involvement and her personal feelings about her involvement, and what she was going to do to change it, given her husband's history of perpetuating mass incarceration and the War on Drugs."

On edit, Bernie Sanders views on mass incarceration and disproportionately punishing blacks in 1991.

[Uncle Joe]

1. And Bernie in 1994 regarding "Incarcerating a Country"

[daredtowork]

2. I guess they shied away from Clinton's evisceration of welfare

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Which led to the ultimate realization of Reagan's "welfare queen", the Southern myth of whole towns of black people getting checks while white people don't, and decades of families mired in poverty and a sudden epidemic of homelessness?

There's always Hillary's not-so-subtle dogwhistles about *white* working people, too.

What about her "All Lives Matter" faux pas a couple months ago? I hope they held her feet to the fire over that!

[oasis]

3. "Which led to Reagan's 'welfare queen'.??

So President Reagan had an idea the future president, Clinton was going to "end welfare as we know it?"

Hmmmm.

[daredtowork]

4. lol you're right that's backward - sorry it's after midnight and I'm tired.nt