Black Lives Matter Activist Demands Hillary Clinton Apologize Based on a Lie
http://www.mediaite.com/online/black-lives-matter-activist-demands-hillary-clinton-apologize-based-on-a-lie/In the final days before the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, things are getting heated as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle for black votes in a state with a large black electorate. Things got a little hotter Wednesday night when a #BlackLivesMatter activist confronted Hillary at a private event in Charleston, South Carolina. Activist Ashley Williams interrupted Clinton’s remarks by holding up a cloth sign that read “We Have to Bring Them to Heel,” a reference to comments she made in 1996, and demanded an apology from Hillary:
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Clinton: (reading sign) We have to bring them to heel.
Williams: We hope you apologize for mass incarceration.
Clinton: Okay, we’ll talk about it.
Williams: I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary Clinton.
Clinton: Okay, we’ll talk about it.
Williams: Will you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?
Clinton: Can I talk? And maybe you can listen to what I say.
(someone in crowd hisses)
Williams: You called black people “Superpredators.”
Crowd: That’s not appropriate. You’re being rude.
Williams: You called black people “Superpredators,” that’s rude.
Clinton: Okay, you want to hear the facts, or you want to just talk?
Williams: I know that you called black youth “Superpredators” in 1994. Please explain for the record. Please explain it to us. You owe black people an apology.
Before peeling away the layers of this onion, it’s important to give Ashley Williams major points for execution. According to The Huffington Post, she and her videographer paid $500 to get into the event, and maneuvered themselves into some prime real estate at the front of the crowd. Facts aside, the optics of the confrontation are all on Williams’ side, as politicians still haven’t learned that “Why don’t you stop talking and listen to me?” is not an effective way to engage activists you care about engaging.
Facts are stubborn things, though, and they’re not on Ashley Williams’ side here, at least not entirely. Her first demand, that Hillary apologize for mass incarceration that many blame on the 1994 crime bill that then-President Bill Clinton signed into law, is somewhat moot because the Clintons have already done that, and because apologizing for it won’t fix it. Hillary never voted for that bill, although as First Lady, she did stump for it.
Part of that effort was to give a speech in 1996 (not 1994) in which she did, indeed, use the term “Superpredators,” but context is important here. This was one line in a speech about a broader agenda, in which the issue of crime was at the end of a long list, and in which she advocated community policing in literally the same breath. Here’s what she actually said:
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She's right to question if I'm an Uncle Tom. Good to know.
your decision to attack Ms Williams using an article written by a white guy is on your head
Did you read HRC's audience actually hissed at Ashley Williams?
They hollered that she was "trespassing" because obviously how could a young black woman get into the event otherwise? /sarcasm
HRC had her hauled off and then said, "now let's get back to the issues" ( cause mass incarceration isn't really an issue?). 
There's a lot of things you COULD go after in this scenario but you chose to take on the BLM protester
you know what? Stick to that narrative.
so there's that
Hillary was addressing a wealthy white audience. How dare Ashley Williams bring up issues concerning black people at that time.
Slandering a future civil rights icon (my prediction...) for telling the truth? That's just hunky-dory.
The EXACT OPPOSITE of how Sanders was supposed to react to BLM.
Sanders listened, just like they wanted. Hillary club condemns him for it.
Clinton ignores them and demand they listen to HER. Hillary club condemns BLM for not listening.
We're deep in the rabbit hole at this point
