BILL REGRETS SLAPPING DOWN BLACK LIVES MATTER ACTIVISTS
'I almost want to apologize'
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Former President Bill Clinton told a Pennsylvania crowd on Friday that his decision to rhetorically slap down Black Lives Matter activists a day earlier was regrettable.
Clinton was bombarded with heckles during a speech in Philadelphia on Thursday while trying to campaign for his wife. He responded by telling the race activists they were apologists for “gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack” to murder other black people.
“Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t! You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter. Tell the truth!” Clinton said Thursday, WND reported.
The comments were in reference to a 1994 crime bill that mandated tougher penalties for nonviolent drug offenders, created new prisons, and put additional cops on city streets.
Clinton struck a more contrite tone on Friday while speaking to Hillary’s supporters in Erie.
“So I did something yesterday in Philadelphia. I almost want to apologize for it,” Clinton said, CBS News reported. “We’re all vulnerable to saying something we don’t like, then finding one fact that we can take out of context and then condemning somebody else. […] I rather vigorously defended my wife, as I am wont to do, and I realized, finally realized I was talking past [the activist] the way she was talking past me. We got to stop that in this country. We’ve got to start listening to each other again.”
Black Lives Matter supporters have targeted Hillary Clinton for months over her support for the bill. The former first lady also called the criminals who would ultimately be affected by the law “super-predators.”
“[Hillary Clinton’s] support for the 1994 crime bill […] used racially coded rhetoric to cast black children as animals,” Salon’s Michelle Alexander wrote Feb. 10. “‘They are not just gangs of kids anymore,’ she said. They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”
The left-wing magazine then listed numerous ways the Clinton family “decimated black America” while they occupied the White House.
The former secretary of state was ambushed by a Black Lives Matter activist shortly after the article’s publication. A woman unfolded a banner with “we have to bring them to heel” at a private fundraiser in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 25 while the candidate was trying to speak.
“We want you to apologize for mass incarceration,” activist Ashley Williams said, WND reported. “I’m not a ‘super-predator,’ Hillary Clinton!”
“Okay, fine. We’ll talk about it,” said Clinton.
“Will you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?” asked Williams.
“Well, can I talk? Then maybe you can listen to what I say,” Clinton said before Williams was escorted out of the building.
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Hillary Clinton is confronted by a Black Lives Matter activist in Charleston, South Carolina (Photo: YouTube, Not a Super-predator)
Hillary Clinton will find out April 26 if her husband’s comments hurt her with black voters in Pennsylvania. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed her with a 50 percent to 44 percent lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders among voters in The Keystone State. Roughly 80 percent of voters said they already knew who will receive their vote.
The poll, conducted March 30 through April 4, surveyed 514 Pennsylvania voters. Its margin of error is plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.
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