Bill Clinton Accuses Black Lives Matter Protesters of Defending Murderous Drug Dealers

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America's "first black president" has some detractors among the African-American community of Philadelphia. While rallying support for his wife ahead of Pennsylvania's Democratic primary, Bill Clinton found himself in a shouting argument with a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. The activists crashed Clinton's speech, bearing homemade signs reading, "Clinton's crime bill destroyed our communities," and, "Welfare reform increased poverty." One sign made reference to Hillary Clinton's infamous use of the right-wing trope superpredators — a term that described a "new class" of young black criminals who lacked all conscience and empathy — during her husband's reelection campaign. The former First Lady apologized for using the term when confronted by protesters back in February. Her husband took a different approach.

"I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out into the street to murder other African-American children," Clinton told the protesters. "Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t ... You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter."

The former president also defended his welfare-reform act, which several studies have linked to a stark increase in child poverty:

They say the welfare reform bill increased poverty. Then why did we have the largest drop in African-American poverty in history when I was president? The largest in history. What happened was the Supreme Court elected President Bush 5 to 4. Then all these Republicans took over state legislatures. We left them with enough money to take care of all the poor people who couldn’t go to work, on welfare. We left them with the money they had before the welfare rolls went down 60 percent. The Republicans took it away and they’re blaming me, and apparently her, when she had nothing to do with it.

One problem with Clinton blaming Republicans for "taking away" people's welfare is that, without his law, they wouldn't have been able to.
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Fifteen years after the welfare-reform act went into effect, extreme child poverty had increased by 150 percent.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/bill-clinton-clashes-with-blm-protesters.html

[upaloopa]

1. You are late with this some of your cohorts beat you too it

Are we going to get bombarded with this out of context reporting from the O'Keefe school of journalism all night and all day tomorrow?

[The Midway Rebel]

2. I hope so.

The Clintons are out of touch and the American people need to know.

[upaloopa]

4. Well I think the American people are not as stupid as you would like them to be.

Where are these prepared OP's get put together?

[The Midway Rebel]

8. You have know idea about what I'd like.

I never said Americans were stupid, so fail on your part there. I said the Clintons are out of touch. And I'll say it again. The Clinton s are out of touch.

[Cheese Sandwich]

3. You probalby agree with Bill Clinton that BLM protesters are defending murderous drug dealers

[upaloopa]

5. You know as well as I what you are doing

[Cheese Sandwich]

7. You're defending Bill Clinton's slanderous attack against Black Lives protesters today in Philly.

He already admitted police and prison policies sucked.

But today he fell back on his old ways of justifying abusive policing by pretending anybody who doesn't like it is helping murderers.

And here you are defending his comments.

[upaloopa]

9. Just stop you can't make me your tool

Where are the OP's prepared? How many sites are they posted?

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. In my kitchen

where are they prepared?

I'm flattered you think they seem prepared. Thank you.

[upaloopa]

11. You never do small OP's

[Cheese Sandwich]

13. Thanks for keeping track?

Here's a small one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511271113

[GreatGazoo]

6. How small are these venues?

I watched that 12 min version and if you don't count security, secret service, the people who covered the BLM signs in an orchestrated way then BLM seemed to be half that crowd.

It was like the gym in a small parochial school and it STILL looked empty.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

12. Looks like Sister Souljah Moment FAIL

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