Black Lives Matter protesters confront Clinton at a fundraiser

[shawn703]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)—A pair of Black Lives Matter activists interrupted Hillary Clinton Wednesday night at a private fundraiser, confronting the Democratic presidential candidate with past statements she made about youth in gangs.

"We want you to apologize for mass incarceration," Ashley Williams said at the Charleston, South Carolina, event. "I'm not a 'super predator,' Hillary Clinton."

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Members of the crowd then began to boo Williams, with some shouting, "You're being rude," "This is not appropriate" and "You're trespassing."

Clinton told Williams, "Well, can I talk? And then maybe you can listen to what I say."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-whichhillary/index.html

[Duval]

1. Condescending answer, Hillary.

That's not even a good try. Thanks for the OP, shawn703.

[AmandaSara]

2. Black Lives Matter activists should crash GOP rallies as well.

Has any member of the BLM group ever confronted a GOP candidate? The world needs to see how Republicans react to BLM activists.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They have and have even been beaten

while being thrown out. For example -

Trump event
Another Trump event
And yet another Trump event
Bush

[GummyBearz]

3. Don't worry, her popularity with the black demographic wont suffer

For whatever reason...

edit: that black girl has some courage. You can tell she is nervous by the tone of her voice, but she stands up there and delivers, even while being heckled at

[oNobodyo]

5. This was a deliberately planted loaded question and it's dishonest at it's heart

The term "super predator" never had anything to do with race, Hillary didn't invent it and it was in wide use in the media, social scientists and criminologists etc. It was basically a fad concept that went around to explain the massive rise in crime between the 80's and 90's but it was the term that 'experts' were using. It would've been more strange to find someone that wasn't on this bandwagon at the time. And before someone raises the specter that it wasn't explicit racism but dog whistle, this was aimed at my entire generation universally.


"A professor of politics and public affairs on the political science faculty at Princeton University, John DiIulio, created and popularized the superpredator concept. He coined the term superpredator (1995b) to call public attention to what he characterized as a “new breed” of offenders, “kids that have absolutely no respect for human life and no sense of the future. . . .These are stone-cold predators!” (p. 23). Elsewhere, DiIulio and co-authors have described these young people as “fatherless, godless, and jobless” and as “radically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more teenage boys, who murder, assault, rob, burglarize, deal deadly drugs, join gun-toting gangs, and create serious [linked] disorders” (Bennett, DiIulio, & Walters, 1996, p. 27).

The superpredator myth gained further popularity when it was linked to forecasts by James Q. Wilson and John DiIulio of increased levels of juvenile violence. Wilson (1995) asserted that “by the end of [the past] decade [i.e.,
by 2000] there will be a million more people between the ages of 14 and 17 than there are now. . . . Six percent of them will become high rate, repeat offenders—thirty thousand more young muggers, killers and thieves than
we have now. Get ready” (p. 507). DiIulio (1995a, p. 15) made the same prediction. Media portrayals of juvenile superpredators have created the impression that juveniles are most likely to be armed—heavily armed—and
to use guns in attacks."

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