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Showing Original Post only (View all)Black Lives Matter Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton At Private Event In South Carolina [View all]
Last edited Thu Feb 25, 2016, 01:45 AM - Edit history (1)
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."
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."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-black-lives-matter-south-carolina_us_56ce53b1e4b03260bf7580ca
Interesting.
Edited to put the newly-released video into the OP:
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Black Lives Matter Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton At Private Event In South Carolina [View all]
Fawke Em
Feb 2016
OP
Clinton's explanation: "You are the first person to ask me that. No one has ever asked me before"
JimDandy
Feb 2016
#93
Lol she also said I'll get to that. So what did she say about it?
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Feb 2016
#178
There appears to be an embed video in the HuffPo page but it is giving an error when I view it.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#31
I just saw this on the new thread, thanks. Let's send that one to the greatest page! :(
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#58
I recall Bernie supporters trashing BLM for interrupting him. I wonder if they'll have the same
EffieBlack
Feb 2016
#17
Again he opposed it for years but finally voted for it because of the Violence Against Women Act.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#42
No problem! I'm used to that talking point so I'm quick on the draw!
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#49
The videos are easy to find by Google but you can copy/paste my post next time.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#56
Did you watch the video? He decided that the VAWA was too important to not support it.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#65
He gave his reasons for voting for it, if he had opposed it you would say he didn't care about women
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#79
Strawman, I never said they lobbied for years but they did lobby for it.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#100
Watch the video, he advocated for criminal justice reform for years.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#104
Yes it was because they never tried to change the bill, they lobbied for it as is.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#113
It was a very popular bill until it's third revision, which is the one that passed
passiveporcupine
Feb 2016
#109
Yet, she claims those 8 years of her life as experience as part of the Arkansas Twofer
HereSince1628
Feb 2016
#191
Comment section is interesting, supposedly this was a small group of people ...
slipslidingaway
Feb 2016
#20
Private event = fundraising event, if you have to stay in SC might as well do a fundraiser ...
slipslidingaway
Feb 2016
#38
"UNABLE TO PLAY THIS VIDIO AT THIS TIME. THE NUMBER OF PLAYBACKS HAS BEEN EXCEEDED"
99th_Monkey
Feb 2016
#39
Those Hillary supporters are racists. And Hillary didn't set them straight. She must apologize!
BillZBubb
Feb 2016
#43
Remember, kids: criticizing a "civil rights icon" over lying (for Hillary) is bad.
Lizzie Poppet
Feb 2016
#214
Yeah, because mass incarnation isn't an issue in the wealthy white suburbs of Charleston.
Fawke Em
Feb 2016
#71
She's happy to address it, right after she finds those Goldman Sachs transcripts.....
Indepatriot
Feb 2016
#73
I hope this gets all over social media and lots of people in SC see it...
californiabernin
Feb 2016
#92
Well, first they tried hissing--yes, those upper crust old white people HISSED at Williams!
JimDandy
Feb 2016
#174
Wtf is with the hissing and the nasaly "dats inappropriate" shit? Shame. Nt.
Juicy_Bellows
Feb 2016
#111
How strange. I don't see any of the Hillary fans condemning this, even though it's 20x's worse than
Marr
Feb 2016
#115
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again
JackBeck
Feb 2016
#155
I bet from now on everyone attending a Hillary event will be screened, no matter the cost of ticket.
PonyUp
Feb 2016
#184
Poorly played, should have answered her directly with a canned response, talking over her as needed,
Babel_17
Feb 2016
#196