Here's one reason why I am glad I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in the Illinois Primary

[Chitown Kev]

Now we are starting to have this conversation all over again

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/8/1512792/-Marc-Lamont-Hill-slaps-down-Bill-Clinton-surrogate-hard

Bill "Sister Souljah" Clinton strikes again.

I'm am glad I don't have a primary vote for Hillary Clinton on my conscience right now.

EDIT: Let me be clear.

Heather Mac Donald is in no way, shape, or form (that I know of) a surrogate for the Hillary Clinton campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Mac_Donald

She is regurgitating talking points very similar to what Bill Clinton said yesterday, though.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. It's ChitownKev, with an all-new 4th Edition. Everything has changed!

[Chitown Kev]

2. Oh, I didn't vote for Bernie either

For a different set of reasons.

The nominee will get my vote in the General Election

[Jitter65]

3. Because Bill Clinton speaks the truth about the crime bill era doesn't make that

a Sister Souljah moment. He allowed the protestor to talk and then he took the opportunity to put the crime bill in perspective. And he was correct. Ask Bernie who also voted FOR the bill and all the black legislators who approved it and all the black families and neighborhoods who cried out for help during that era. Was it enforced justly...NO. Did it cause mass incarcerations...NO but it added to it. Mass incarcerations of blacks began during the Reagan era. Did crime go down..YES were assault weapons taken off the streets YES did people begin to feel safer in their own neighborhoods...YES was is a perfect bill ..NO has both Hillary and Bill said they regreted the harsh consequences ..YES has Hillary said she plans on addressing mass incarceration if she is elected...YES

[Chitown Kev]

6. And as Marc Lamont Hill pointed out

Unleaded gasoline might have more to do with the decline in crime rates (which were already decreasing at the time the 1994 Crime Bill was passed).

But Bill regurgitated the same talking points yesterday that are being repeated here ad on Fox News...

You can go back and check my record on this...

I don't think that the crime bill was an altogether bad thing, especially at that time.

This is no longer the 1990's, the generation living with the consequences had no part in those particular circumstances, then Bill Clinton wants to accuse them of protecting murderers and positions himself as a great white saviour...

[Fumesucker]

8. I must say that watching the conversation go in six months from "Hands up, don't shoot" to...

"Police are the guardians and protectors of blacks and totally helping the black community."

It's like this never happened...

[artislife]

4. Thanks for posting this link

I felt my eyes bug out a few times, too.


Damn.

[Chitown Kev]

10. Is your monitor OK?

I swear I wanted to punch the monitor...

[artislife]

12. I scared the dogs a few times. nt

[NorthCarolina]

5. Ummm...excuse me but did you not get the memo? We're not

talking about this....the issue is Sanders invite to the Vatican. The Bill Clinton thing is like so yesterday afternoon. Nobody is talking about it outside of Twitter and Facebook and other meaningless social media sites. The real outrage is Bernie dontcha know. Don't let this happen again.




<just to be clear>

[Kalidurga]

7. Heather McDonald seems to have a very irrational love for racist policies.

[Chitown Kev]

9. Go read her Wikipedia

But those are Bill Clinton's talking points from yesterday that she's defending.

[Kalidurga]

11. No thanks she is a very ugly kind of person.

I hate her.

[TheFarS1de]

13. The first step to addressing a problem is to acknowledge it

They can't even get to that point ....

[mhatrw]

14. Wow. Heather isn't helping the cause. bt

[Bluenorthwest]

15. But you strongly advocated the exact opposite position on DU, vote or no vote. Let's be honest.

Chtown Kev on the Clintons:
"Bernie Sanders does not have the INTIMATE connections with the black community that Hillary Clinton does (and Bill...but moreso Hillary)"

"Bill and Hillary Clinton have been networking in the black community for over 40 years."

"I am saying that Bill and Hillary Clinton have extremely long-lasting relationships with people in the black community and (with the possible exception of John Lewis) Bernie Sanders has not.

I'm talking about two very different levels of relationship, here.

Even Barack Obama didn't have relationships in the black community to the extent that the Clintons had. If Obama had to work for it, why shouldn't Sanders?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017294010

That's just one thread. So if it's about owning our actions, let's do that. Half way does not really play.

[JI7]

16. not really, he is explaining the relationship the clintons have with the black community

which is all true and explains why they have support in the community.

that doesn't mean he himself agrees with it.