BLM Activists Ashley Williams talks about confronting hillary clinton

[berniepdx420]

Black Lives Matter Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton At Private Event In South Carolina

They wanted her to account for some of her past statements on racial justice.
02/24/2016 10:36 pm ET | Updated 40 minutes ago

Two Black Lives Matter activists interrupted a private Hillary Clinton fundraising event Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina.

Youth activist Ashley Williams demanded that the Democratic presidential candidate account for inconsistencies in her record on race, specifically around comments she made about crime in 1996.

Williams said she and a colleague, whom she did not identify, contributed $500 to attend the Clinton event, which was held at a private residence and was attended by around 100 guests.

Williams said she and her colleague strategically placed themselves at the front of the crowd and waited until Clinton appeared. Speakers introducing Clinton around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night discussed Walter Scott, the Charleston A.M.E. Church shooting and how Clinton had a strong record of racial justice.

As Clinton spoke to the crowd, Williams stood to her side and held a sign quoting controversial statements Clinton made in 1996 in reference to at-risk youth, when she said "we have to bring them to heel."

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[bettyellen]

1. Do you remember how roundly hated they were here just a couple months ago? Lots of us do.

It was hard to forget.

[MaggieD]

21. Nope - I won't ever forget that

Kind of hypocritical for them to champion them now.

[LovingA2andMI]

23. Do We Remember How....

Bernie Let Them Speak And Was NOT RUDE But How Hillary Team Literally Threw Ms. Williams Out The Door After Paying $500 to attend this "event"?

[MaggieD]

29. Sanders didn't let them speak - the event organizers did

Also, you need to check the definition of the word "literally."

[Bradical79]

45. Which event are we talking about?

One event they took the mic, Sanders stepped aside and watched silently. Another, I think the moderators gave them the mic when Governor O'Malley was on stage.

[LovingA2andMI]

65. You need to view the video of Sanders getting Interrupted By

#BLM. He STEPPED BACK from the Mic to Let Them Speak. Or again -- is it easier to bury your head in the sandbox of denial for your candidate?

[notadmblnd]

61. Posting an article that shows how this young woman was treated by Hillary and her supporters

is hardly championing BLM.

How do you even get that from that one post?

[Flying Squirrel]

26. Of course one of the reasons

Was because people thought the person they were targeting did not deserve it. Even my AA fiance thought it was a bit bizarre, but I didn't say anything here about it because I didn't want to add to the racial tension. Hillary definitely deserves this though.

[JimDandy]

27. "BLM: Bernie gave them the mic; Hillary showed them the door." n/t

[MaggieD]

35. Bernie didn't give them the mic - the event organizers did

[The Redheaded Guy]

46. "grabbed the mic from Sanders"

Uh, no, not according to reports.

http://bfy.tw/4RgL

[Krytan11c]

50. This is a bold faced lie. N/T

[Arazi]

69. This isn't ancient history. We know what happened so revision won't work here

[kgnu_fan]

52. kick

[JimDandy]

55. Different variations of this are going around the net.

[Downwinder]

2. Scarlet being Scarlet.

[californiabernin]

3. I hope they got their money back! n/t

[passiveporcupine]

13. I think it was money well spent

I don't think they will regret it.

[panader0]

62. We should all kick in to pay for her tickets.

[grasswire]

4. Say her name.

Ashley Williams.

[Downwinder]

5. Again

Ashley Williams.

Bet her name will struck from the guest list.

[99th_Monkey]

6. "I want to know which Hillary is running for President, the one from ’96, ’08, or a new Hillary?"

She deserves an answer IMHO.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. That has been asked repeteadly on the twitter

[roguevalley]

10. she's got guts. I admire that in anyone but this is at a level that

most don't touch. good for her to do this.

[enigmatic]

16. You bet she's got guts

I admire the hell out of Ashley Williams.

She has alot more guts than her detractors ever will.

[MaggieD]

36. Well she needs to work on her accuracy a bit

Clinton did not call "black people" super predators.

[The Redheaded Guy]

47. From the horse's mouth herself..

[Cassiopeia]

15. None of the above.

If she wins we get a whole new Hillary, one that doesn't need to win 2020. We get a Hillary that has free reign with her most pwerful and closest friends on the right and the power to do as they will.

There is no limit. Anything is possible. The middle class has so little today, but when you centralize everything they have into one spot you realize how much they still have left to steal.

With the current Congress ratio and Hillary at the head it will be easy pickings.

[LovingA2andMI]

24. Hilli Vanilli Hillary....

The One That Change Like A Chameleon Depending On Which Crowd She's Addressing On Any Given Hour, Minute, Section....

(Singing) "Girl You Know It's True...."

[Mufaddal]

80. That's the key part

"We did this because we wanted to make sure that black people are paying attention to her record, and we want to know what Hillary we are getting."

“Hillary Clinton has a pattern of throwing the Black community under the bus when it serves her politically," Williams said in a statement before the event. "She called our boys ‘super-predators’ in ’96, then she race-baited when running against Obama in ‘08, now she’s a lifelong civil rights activist. I just want to know which Hillary is running for President, the one from ’96, ’08, or the new Hillary?”

[TM99]

85. Isn't that the truth!

Well done young lady, well done!

[Oilwellian]

8. Video

A modern day Scarlet, indeed. Wow.

Video originally posted here

[Juicy_Bellows]

9. The crowd hissing is disgusting.

Hillary could have played that a helluva lot better. Love to see the next five minutes of video.

[enigmatic]

11. The hissing is beyond the pale

Switch out Hillary for Bernie in this video and DU would be broken w/ all of the posts by Hillary supporters burying him and calling him and the crowd flat-out racists.

We all know this.

[Juicy_Bellows]

12. We all know this. Indeed.

Edit. Who the fuck hisses? I've attended well over a thousand live events and have heard all sorts of things, hisses just don't happen. Of course I've never ponied up 5 large to attend any live event.

[MgtPA]

38. I felt like I was watching an outtake from "The Help"

Those Junior League women would have hissed, for sure.

[autonomous]

75. I was going to ask same thing, "Who the fuck hisses?"

Mythologically speaking, monsters hiss when the hero confronts them.

Ashley Williams.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

79. Booing is for the little people

The upper crusters at Hillary's events wouldn't stoop to such bourgeois claptrap.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Back to the issues,

the issues that I think are important.

[monicaangela]

54. I am so proud of Ashley Williams

And so happy that the young people in the African American community are not being fooled by Hillary Clinton as some of their older counterparts are. I can't believe Ashley Williams is the first person to ask Hillary about this, and although she says in the video she will be happy to address it, she never does.

[TM99]

86. The condescension and arrogance.

Let me speak, and you listen. Hiss, booing, "you are tresspassing."

Come on Clinton supporters, where are you? Seriously, get the fuck in this thread and give her credit. I mean y'all attack Sanders mercilessly when young women actually shoved him at an event that wasn't even his to headline. This young lady paid to attend a Clinton event. She never touched Clinton. She demonstrated exactly what the best of non-violent activism is about. Clinton was arrogant and condescending. The crowd was harsh and demonstrated their white privilege.

So come on!

[Cassiopeia]

14. "Williams said the Secret Service threw her out out of the event."

Well, that's how you deal with that shit.

If you're a Clinton that is.

Williams said she and her colleague strategically placed themselves at the front of the crowd and waited until Clinton appeared. Speakers introducing Clinton around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night discussed Walter Scott, the Charleston A.M.E. Church shooting and how Clinton had a strong record of racial justice.

Williams said when Clinton paused and looked at her sign, she asked the former secretary of state to apologize to black people for mass incarceration. The mostly white audience yelled at Williams and told her she was being rude, she said.

"I wanted to bring her to confront her own words," Williams told The Huffington Post after the protest, adding, "We did this because we wanted to make sure that black people are paying attention to her record, and we want to know what Hillary we are getting."

Williams said the Secret Service threw her out out of the event.

[MaggieD]

20. I highly doubt they "threw" her anywhere

And as she has demonstrated in the past, I'm sure Clinton would have had a dialogue with her if she wanted that. But clearly she didn't. So she got to say her peace and then it was time to leave.

[fourcents]

41. For the the life of me I cannot understand why someone who is a Democratic voter be for Hillary?

[Broward]

53. Many conservatives have infiltrated the Party.

[grossproffit]

70. And socialists.

[Broward]

83. You just proved my point.

[sarge43]

22. Really? Did Ms Williams threaten Clinton?

The Service's job is to protect her life, not her image.

If Clinton needs bouncers, she should hire a few and pay for them .. like Trump.

[Matariki]

17. Brave woman!

Clinton could have handled that better. Used it to create a dialog about something she professes to care about.

[monicaangela]

57. I believe she was in the wrong room for that

Now if she had been before a room of AA's I'm sure she would have stopped and politely addressed her concerns, but being in front of that crowd, I don't believe she felt she needed to. Says a lot about this candidate.

[MaggieD]

19. And yet her supporters will not swarm the Internet with nasty stuff about AA

Like the Sanders supporters did. Including here if I recall correctly.

[berniepdx420]

31. wow...stunning post maggieD...

[notadmblnd]

66. Isn't that something?

I can't wait til election season is over and these folks who only come out during them go back into their hide-y holes.

[The Redheaded Guy]

48. So stating a fact about the event that just happened is "swarming"?

Have a nice rest of the day, MaggieD.

[SwampG8r]

51. They already began here

One clinton supporter has asked how she could afford it like black people have no money
Another says she is a front for sanders ( no ct though!)
Another says her companion something something
So that dog.....it dont hunt

[notadmblnd]

67. You're right.

they'll wait til after the election when the AA vote has been secured and they've no longer a use for POC.

[LovingA2andMI]

25. A 47% Moment in 2016 and With A Different Candidate....

Good Job Ashley Williams. Hope you receive a refund....

[MaggieD]

33. Yet Clinton did not call "black people" super predators

As this protestor claims. You realize that, right?

[The Redheaded Guy]

49. Yes she did.

[JackInGreen]

76. Crickets

Is all you'll ever here. They'll ignore, then double down.

[monicaangela]

56. Implications, code language, you know the regular vernacular of someone

who is accustomed to southern dog whistle politics.

[LovingA2andMI]

63. Have you saw the video linked...

Over 20 times in forum or are you just burying your head in the sand on purpose?

[PatrickforO]

28. Oh, man. "I just want to know which Clinton is running? The one from 96, 08 or

the NEW Hillary."

On Huffpo no less. Calling out Clinton for too much evolving and perhaps not enough principle.

[MaggieD]

30. Same one

I'll bet she's still against gang violence too.

[berniepdx420]

32. You're on fire tonight...stunning

[MaggieD]

34. Yet I'm correct

Hillary did not call "black people" super predators. Fact.

[berniepdx420]

37. It's right there on the video.. explain ?

[MaggieD]

39. The protestor said Clinton called "black people" super predators

Not true. Clinton never said that.

[berniepdx420]

40. Who did she call super predators then ??

[MaggieD]

42. Gangs

Are we going pro-gang now or something? I mean I can understand why no one has asked her about that 20 year old comment before. Gangs are still not a good thing. Right?

Are people making the (racist) assumption that gangs are only comprised of AA people? Every race has gangs in urban areas. It's hardly specific to AAs.

[loyalsister]

44. Can you name any white gangs?

The "black on black crime" meme grew out of the belief that gangs are predominately black. If someone refers to an individual as a "gang banger" what image do you think most people (especially white people in the suburbs) will imagine?

To this day, the word "gang" is a dog whistle. Denying that is just dishonest.

[Amimnoch]

72. more than 10% are.

What is shocking is how many people here on DU automatically equate "Gang" with "black".

[Arazi]

82. Only 13% of gang members are White

http://www.statisticbrain.com/gang-statistics/

[MaggieD]

73. Google

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gangs_in_the_United_States

[loyalsister]

84. Couldn't name one off the top of your head?

I bet you did know who the Bloods and Crips are, though. If you remember the 90s, you will remember that in popular culture gangs were presumed to be composed of black youth. For that reason, it was a dog whistle and the Clintons knew it.

[morningfog]

59. Don't play dumb. Ah fuck it. Play as dumb as you want.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

68. This was in the 90's

When she talked about "gangs", everyone knew to whom she was referring.

[MaggieD]

71. Yeah. Gangs

[coyote]

90. Let me fix that for you:

"Black gangs".

Yes Maggie, I agree.

[Peace Patriot]

43. No. 1: They felt like she did, especially considering what followed--

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--the mass incarceration of way disproportional numbers of black youth and men, on minor drug offenses (that whites were largely NOT going to jail for), keeping them in our dangerous, destructive, non-rehabilitative prisons for very long sentences--often private corporate prisons some of whom have donated to Clinton's current campaign; destroying their future lives, giving them lifetime police records, making them ineligible for student loans, ineligible for public housing, ineligible for food stamps, and depriving them of their right to vote!--all as the result of the Clintons' great escalation of the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs."

No. 2: When white people call teen offenders "super predators," that is code for black. They are NOT talking about white "super predator" children! Black people know this. I know this. Any whites who have experience of black lives--friends, family--or even just do a bit of reading, knows this. You might try to be a little more sensitive, with your "FACT."

If it hadn't been for the follow-up by the Clintons--including the profiteering off of the destruction of black families and black communities all over this country--I might be inclined to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt, that she didn't mean black. Tone deaf, maybe, but not intentional.

But it is the follow-up that defines the meaning. She was going to use poor blacks, struggling to eke out a living-- who fell into drug use or the drug market by the evaporation of American jobs due to the Clintons' NAFTA--for building a personal fortune from the REAL "super predators"--Goldman Sachs, et al. For instance, the manufacturing corporations they were trading in, in their Big Casino, were paying workers $1/day or 35 cents/day wherever they could get away with it, leaving devastated communities all over the USA, both white and black, but black communities took the hardest of hard hits. And "to bring them to heel," police departments were militarized, given the "war on drugs" as an excuse, and who did they go after? Black kids and men.

Latinos also suffered mass incarceration in the same way. They got hit by NAFTA in two or more countries. NAFTA and associated destructive economic policies began destroying agriculture in Mexico, for instance, which decimated many small towns and villages. Families here with relatives in Mexico had to deal with joblessness and poverty in both places, which in Mexico included loss of small plots of land used for sustenance food. Those people began migrating north and their poverty had to be absorbed by relatives and communities here. And on top of this, some Latino kids and men also fell into drug use and/or drug markets to try to make a living in these desperate conditions. They, too, were way disproportionately jailed, often for minor offenses, with long sentences and permanent records.

It's still going on and Clinton supports it all, and it supports her!

Both groups, black and Latino, are often framed, often picked up for nothing, often brutalized for nothing, and almost never have adequate legal counsel. And we are seeing the "end game" of these policies in the outright shooting to death of innocent black youths and men for no reason at all!

[monicaangela]

58. Thank you for this wonderful comment

What a beautiful summary of the destruction that this "couple" this partnership has wreaked upon this nation. Excellent comment!

[raouldukelives]

64. Spot on. We aren't where we are by accident. nt

[Skwmom]

60. Sadly, I think the Clintonites feel this will help them with the white vote and it will have little

impact with the black vote.

The Clintons want to embrace blacks for the black vote but they need enough Sister Souljah moments to pander to certain whites.

Mika had to turn sideways on Morning Joe to hide her smile. And the heartfelt comments on the poor black child killed, I could really feel your concern

[autonomous]

74. Ashley Williams

[thereismore]

77. Hillary is not one to apologize without huge political pressure.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

78. For contrast

Although Bernie was clearly a little startled at first, he quickly handed the microphone over and let them say what they needed to. He could have just had them hauled off like Hillary did, but he let them speak.

[TM99]

87. And one of those young ladies

actually physically shoved Sanders.

Oh, how we heard the hollars of indignation when anyone dared to criticize such actions.

[Waiting For Everyman]

81. This will be like Mittens' 47%er comment.

Give it a little time for people to wrap their heads around what it means. The young people will circulate it around social media and cell phones (as they're doing now) and they'll show it to their elders.

#WhichHillary (Williams' hashtag on the lower corner of her sign)

[TM99]

88. Got to love them clapping

as Hillary returned to the 'real' issues!

[MisterP]

89. it's like with shootings--piles of dead 1st-graders only makes them say "that means *I* need

more guns, to prevent this kind of thing"

having BLM forcibly ejected the first time made them just angrier at Sanders supporters trying to call them on their double standard