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The government shouldn't get involved to make change. The people should get involved and make change. WE are the government. What you're asking for is direct manipulation based upon your ideologies.
#BLM activist disrupts Clinton speech for calling black gang members "super predators" in the 90s
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The government shouldn't get involved to make change. The people should get involved and make change. WE are the government. What you're asking for is direct manipulation based upon your ideologies.
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I quickly skimmed this thread so maybe I have this wrong, but is Forkfoot defending this sexist woman? I figured if "all lives matter" is a racist statement, then logically "black womans lives matter" is a sexist one.
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What the actual fuck??
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Government is a tool of the people. It's only ever a tool of the people as long as the people don't hold back on flexing their muscles and using their true power.
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In one if the pictures above this lady is holding up a sign that says "black womans lives matter". She clearly coined this phrase in rebuttal to BLM.
While I'm (clearly) just having some fun, I think being consistent with our thought processes is important.
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There Goes the Firewall: Hillary Clinton’s Response to BLM May Have Cost Her The Election
By Walker Bragman | February 26, 2016 | 11:38am
Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Politics | Features Share Tweet Email
“I’m not a superpredator!” Ashley Williams, a young Black Lives Matter protester told Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton—her confidence belied by a slight quiver in her voice.
Even when heckled by the mostly white crowd at a $500-per-plate campaign fundraiser dinner in conservative South Carolina, Williams held her ground. She faced down an evasive Clinton, demanding an explanation for racist remarks the former First Lady made in 1996, where she referred to inner-city, black youth as “super-predators” with “no conscience” and “no empathy.” “We need to bring them to heel” she explained.
At the time, Clinton was touting her husband’s “tough on crime” policies—specifically the Violent Crime Control Act of 1994—which imposed harsh punishments on a variety of nonviolent offenses, and is widely accepted as a driving force (though not the only force) behind the explosion of incarceration over the next decade. Black America was hit particularly hard.
After a tense confrontation, Clinton’s security detail physically removed the young woman who had paid $500 to deliver her message.
After she was gone, a visibly annoyed Clinton, seemingly unable to stop herself, turned to the crowd and said “Back to the issues…” not realizing she was on camera. She could not have made a more tone-deaf statement, especially given the name of movement she had just been confronted by.
The whole incident is hard to watch—worse by the fact that the South Carolina Primary is just days away. For the past few months, we’ve been hearing all about Hillary’s “Civil Rights record. Following her win in Nevada, the talking heads and wonks have been predicting a blowout victory in the Palmetto State due its demographic makeup.
This video could change everything. The #WhichHillary hashtag is likely to haunt her.
Throughout this election, the biggest problem Hillary has had to overcome is the perception that she is insincere, and out-of-touch with the concerns of voters. A recent Gallup poll showed that the top response to her name was the word “”dishonest.””
And as much as her surrogates and campaign staff try blame public perception on issues like gender, claiming she’s just been treated unfairly, it is Clinton’s own judgment that causes her problems—like when she accepted millions of dollars in speaking fees from Wall Street, and insisted it wouldn’t affect her priorities, or when she ran a private email server out of her home as the Secretary of State. Hillary is her own worst enemy.
Clinton had a real opportunity with this incident to address some of the concerns millennial voters have regarding her record. She failed miserably, interrupting and talking over Williams and repeatedly asking “Can I speak?”
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/there-goes-the-firewall-hillary-clintons-response.html
By Walker Bragman | February 26, 2016 | 11:38am
Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Politics | Features Share Tweet Email
“I’m not a superpredator!” Ashley Williams, a young Black Lives Matter protester told Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton—her confidence belied by a slight quiver in her voice.
Even when heckled by the mostly white crowd at a $500-per-plate campaign fundraiser dinner in conservative South Carolina, Williams held her ground. She faced down an evasive Clinton, demanding an explanation for racist remarks the former First Lady made in 1996, where she referred to inner-city, black youth as “super-predators” with “no conscience” and “no empathy.” “We need to bring them to heel” she explained.
At the time, Clinton was touting her husband’s “tough on crime” policies—specifically the Violent Crime Control Act of 1994—which imposed harsh punishments on a variety of nonviolent offenses, and is widely accepted as a driving force (though not the only force) behind the explosion of incarceration over the next decade. Black America was hit particularly hard.
After a tense confrontation, Clinton’s security detail physically removed the young woman who had paid $500 to deliver her message.
After she was gone, a visibly annoyed Clinton, seemingly unable to stop herself, turned to the crowd and said “Back to the issues…” not realizing she was on camera. She could not have made a more tone-deaf statement, especially given the name of movement she had just been confronted by.
The whole incident is hard to watch—worse by the fact that the South Carolina Primary is just days away. For the past few months, we’ve been hearing all about Hillary’s “Civil Rights record. Following her win in Nevada, the talking heads and wonks have been predicting a blowout victory in the Palmetto State due its demographic makeup.
This video could change everything. The #WhichHillary hashtag is likely to haunt her.
Throughout this election, the biggest problem Hillary has had to overcome is the perception that she is insincere, and out-of-touch with the concerns of voters. A recent Gallup poll showed that the top response to her name was the word “”dishonest.””
And as much as her surrogates and campaign staff try blame public perception on issues like gender, claiming she’s just been treated unfairly, it is Clinton’s own judgment that causes her problems—like when she accepted millions of dollars in speaking fees from Wall Street, and insisted it wouldn’t affect her priorities, or when she ran a private email server out of her home as the Secretary of State. Hillary is her own worst enemy.
Clinton had a real opportunity with this incident to address some of the concerns millennial voters have regarding her record. She failed miserably, interrupting and talking over Williams and repeatedly asking “Can I speak?”
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/there-goes-the-firewall-hillary-clintons-response.html
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Hopefully Trump tries exploiting this during the campaign.
