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Related: About this forumRoland Martin Grills Bill Clinton #BlackLivesMatter Protesters: What Do You Want the Clintons to Do?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/roland-martin-grills-bill-clinton-blacklivesmatter-protesters-what-do-you-want-the-clintons-to-do/by Tommy Christopher
As former President Bill Clinton addresses the fallout from his exchange with #BlackLivesMatter protesters in Philadelphia on Thursday, News One Now host Roland Martin welcomed those protesters, Rufus Farmer and Erica Mines, to find out more about why they protested the former president. President Clinton took heavy criticism for things like telling the protester to hush up and for defending a remark that Hillary Clinton has already apologized for by accusing the pair of defending gang leaders, but has since expressed regret over his part in the exchange.
On the substance, though, Clinton spent a lot of time defending the 1990s policies the duo were protesting, and on Friday morning, Roland tried to drill down on the specifics of their grievances.
He began by asking why they werent protesting others who supported the law, such as Vice President Joe Biden, who authored and pushed the 1994 crime bill. Vice President Biden does deserve criticism for it, Farmer replied, Vice President Biden was not the one in Philadelphia yesterday.
Erica Mines also added that they have issues with others, including Senator Bernie Sanders and members of the Congressional Black Caucus at the time, who supported the bill.
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Roland Martin Grills Bill Clinton #BlackLivesMatter Protesters: What Do You Want the Clintons to Do? (Original Post)
MrWendel
Apr 2016
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Lucinda
(31,170 posts)1. Thanks for this! Am bookmarking and will dig in after dinner.
HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)2. "Umm, OK, back to the issues that I think are important"....
Ruby the Liberal
(26,277 posts)3. Good luck with that
I have been asking people here on DU - "what is it that you want done" and the response has been nothing but crickets. I get the frustration. What I haven't seen is what people want to happen.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)4. He should acknowledge that his policies were harmful in so many ways.
Hillary too, especially for her role in helping to sell the policies by using scare tactics and selling the superpredator thing.