Why Hillary Clinton's Stint as a Civil-Rights Secret Agent Matters Today

[cali]

One of the most interesting holiday surprises was the revelation by Amy Chozick in The New York Times about Hillary Rodham, Covert Operative.

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Make no mistake. Even in 1972, this took considerable guts. The segregated academies were the outward sign of the vicious backlash against the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement that only would intensify over the following decade as the Republican party, and the conservative movement that would come to be its essential life-force, discovered that, in many important ways, the whole country was Southern. The backlash was even more virulent at the local level. If Undercover Hillz blew her cover, very bad things could have happened to her.

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40772/hillary-clinton-undercover-civil-rights/

[firebrand80]

1. So she worked for Nixon

Figures

[dsc]

2. apparently you can't read

no she didn't work for Nixon, she worked for a civil rights group who then turned the evidence over to Nixon who then didn't do anything. Christ Jesus.

[loyalsister]

3. An ongoing effort to minimize or deny the meaning of her 2008 dog whistles will not erase it

from history. Nor will many of us who support BLM forget her reluctance to say it.