Hillary Clinton’s Back-Handed Apology For ‘Superpredator’ Remark





Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- hillary.clinton.#whichhillary.#notasuperpredator.mass.incarceration.black.lives.matter_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals

 

The trouble for Hillary Clinton began long before the hashtag #WhichHillary started to trend on Twitter, but that is where it might end.

Thanks to social media a video of Ashley Williams, a Black Lives Matter activist, interrupting Clinton’s fundraiser in South Carolina with a sign that said: “We have to bring them to heel”.

This is a reference to Clinton’s 1996 speech wherein she referred to African American youth as super-predators, and went on to describe them as having “no conscience [and] no empathy”.

On YouTube, the video of Williams at Clinton’s fundraiser was accompanied by an article by Michelle Alexander, author of the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness” and the hashtag #NotASuperpredator.

In the article , Alexander explains how the Clintons have done more for mass incarceration, racist stereotypes, and hypocritically “playing” African Americans than any other president.

Alexander wrote: “We should have seen it coming. Back then, Clinton was the standard-bearer for the New Democrats, a group that firmly believed the only way to win back the millions of white voters in the South who had defected to the Republican Party was to adopt the right-wing narrative that black communities ought to be disciplined with harsh punishment rather than coddled with welfare. Reagan had won the presidency by dog-whistling to poor and working-class whites with coded racial appeals: railing against ‘welfare queens’ and criminal ‘predators’ and condemning ‘big government.’ Clinton aimed to win them back, vowing that he would never permit any Republican to be perceived as tougher on crime than he.”

Thanks to President Bill Clinton’s war on black Americans under the guise of a war on drugs or crime, the creation of 3 strikes and you’re out in 1994, and the “$30 billion crime bill that created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some three-time offenders, and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and the expansion of police forces”, nearly 90% “of all drug offenders sent to prison” were African American.

That is why Clinton’s treatment of Williams at the fundraiser has captured so much attention – primarily the fact that the Black Lives Matters protester was thrown out of the event in South Carolina by the Secret Service.

Using the hashtag #WhichHillary , social media spoke almost in deafening unison with over 100,000 tweets within hours of the trending topic about how Clinton flip-flops on marriage equality, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Keystone Pipeline, and many more points of interest that would influence the voting public.

Considering the bad press Clinton has received in such a short amount of time, Hillary told journalist Jonathan Capehart that she “shouldn’t have used those words” in the “superpredator” speech from 1996.

She went on to explain the meaning of that speech as being about “the impact violent crime and vicious drug cartels were having on communities across the country and the particular danger they posed to children and families.”

Capehart clarified that Clinton “was clearly talking about a narrow band of young people who would not have included the admirably assertive Williams or the vast majority of African American youths then and now” and how “noteworthy” it is that Hillary went “out of her way to define ‘superpredator’.”


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Hillary Clinton’s Back-Handed Apology For ‘Superpredator’ Remark





Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- hillary.clinton.#whichhillary.#notasuperpredator.mass.incarceration.black.lives.matter_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals

 

The trouble for Hillary Clinton began long before the hashtag #WhichHillary started to trend on Twitter, but that is where it might end.

Thanks to social media a video of Ashley Williams, a Black Lives Matter activist, interrupting Clinton’s fundraiser in South Carolina with a sign that said: “We have to bring them to heel”.

This is a reference to Clinton’s 1996 speech wherein she referred to African American youth as super-predators, and went on to describe them as having “no conscience [and] no empathy”.

On YouTube, the video of Williams at Clinton’s fundraiser was accompanied by an article by Michelle Alexander, author of the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness” and the hashtag #NotASuperpredator.

In the article , Alexander explains how the Clintons have done more for mass incarceration, racist stereotypes, and hypocritically “playing” African Americans than any other president.

Alexander wrote: “We should have seen it coming. Back then, Clinton was the standard-bearer for the New Democrats, a group that firmly believed the only way to win back the millions of white voters in the South who had defected to the Republican Party was to adopt the right-wing narrative that black communities ought to be disciplined with harsh punishment rather than coddled with welfare. Reagan had won the presidency by dog-whistling to poor and working-class whites with coded racial appeals: railing against ‘welfare queens’ and criminal ‘predators’ and condemning ‘big government.’ Clinton aimed to win them back, vowing that he would never permit any Republican to be perceived as tougher on crime than he.”

Thanks to President Bill Clinton’s war on black Americans under the guise of a war on drugs or crime, the creation of 3 strikes and you’re out in 1994, and the “$30 billion crime bill that created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some three-time offenders, and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and the expansion of police forces”, nearly 90% “of all drug offenders sent to prison” were African American.

That is why Clinton’s treatment of Williams at the fundraiser has captured so much attention – primarily the fact that the Black Lives Matters protester was thrown out of the event in South Carolina by the Secret Service.

Using the hashtag #WhichHillary , social media spoke almost in deafening unison with over 100,000 tweets within hours of the trending topic about how Clinton flip-flops on marriage equality, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Keystone Pipeline, and many more points of interest that would influence the voting public.

Considering the bad press Clinton has received in such a short amount of time, Hillary told journalist Jonathan Capehart that she “shouldn’t have used those words” in the “superpredator” speech from 1996.

She went on to explain the meaning of that speech as being about “the impact violent crime and vicious drug cartels were having on communities across the country and the particular danger they posed to children and families.”

Capehart clarified that Clinton “was clearly talking about a narrow band of young people who would not have included the admirably assertive Williams or the vast majority of African American youths then and now” and how “noteworthy” it is that Hillary went “out of her way to define ‘superpredator’.”


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