Secretary Clinton today: "We need to recognize our privilege"

[philosslayer]

Clearly, she gets it. About time a Presidential candidate said it.

[Avalux]

1. What is she talking about and who is the "we"?

[morningfog]

2. To what privilege was she referring? That of the wealthy?

[loyalsister]

13. Using the language of anti-racist activists isn't enough

She also needs to show sincere respect for BLM. Show some remorse for mass incarceration and welfare reform. And, not participate in bigoted "humor."

[IamMab]

30. Just what does "remorse for mass incarceration" look like to you? Wait, wait, let me guess...

"I'm so sorry about mass incarceration that I'm suspending my campaign and Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic nominee in 2016."

Right? Right?? Come on now, just admit it....

[loyalsister]

32. No more defending adopting RW language

No more pretending she didn't promote it with full knowledge of what would happen to families.
A sincere apology for hurting families.
And, reparations

[Warren DeMontague]

34. She can't even bring herself to support ending marijuana criminalization.

You really think the rest of that stuff is gonna happen?

[loyalsister]

41. I don't think for a second she has the humility or compassion required to show honest remorse

And, the fact that she is not 100% on board for marijuana legalization is just another example of how little people matter to her.

[morningfog]

3. Privilege to bring kids to heel?

[morningfog]

4. Privilege to tell jokes about "colored people?"

[rbrnmw]

10. she didn't tell a joke about black folks

[Warren DeMontague]

35. La la la laaaaaa

[geek tragedy]

11. keep on beating that "Mayor de Blasio is a white racist" horse

see how much good it does y'all

[chascarrillo]

16. Who was it that appointed Mr. Stop & Frisk as NYPD Chief again? -nt-

[geek tragedy]

19. I love it when extranjeros

try to tell us how awful our mayor is.

Stop and Frisk has ended.

People who actually, you know, fucking live here are aware of that fact.

[chascarrillo]

23. Tell Eric Garner that. -nt

[geek tragedy]

27. that wasn't stop and frisk. that was broken windows.

The One-Two-Oh is notorious for being thuggish, even by NYPD standards.

Bill de Blasio had to have 'the talk' with his own son. So, for you extranjero Bernie Bros to suggest that he's siccing the police on young black men is really nasty stuff. In addition to being pathetically ignorant.

Btw:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill-bratton-ray-kelly-spar-nypd-stop-and-frisk-article-1.2343288

[Warren DeMontague]

37. You mean like when people on the East Coast lecture the West about our pot laws?

[geek tragedy]

40. hey, smoke 'em if you got 'em, as far as I'm concerned

New York should take a page out of your books.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. Always a bit behind.

C'est La Vie. I have to laugh (sorry) at the "medical marijuana" program NY started. You would think the stuff is plutonium, the way they make it impossible to actually, you know, get.

You will catch up eventually.

[geek tragedy]

43. our state government makes Ukraine look well run nt

[morningfog]

47. You don't have to be a racist to tell a racist joke.

[geek tragedy]

48. it wasn't a racist joke

black folks can explain better to you than I can what he was trying (and failed) to do

[morningfog]

52. Bullshit. You can't polish that turd.

[geek tragedy]

53. virtually every African-American who's weighed in disagrees with you nt

[morningfog]

56. You must ignore Twitter.

Would you use the phrase? Would you tell colored people time jokes to your white friends?

[geek tragedy]

58. no, because I know the golden rule of telling

jokes that touch on race/gender etc is that if someone from the privileged group tells that joke it absolutely has to land perfectly. Bad jokes that try to be provocative are miserable failures.

there are millions of people on Twitter.

I imagine your feed is full of Bernie supporters.

[libtodeath]

44. Exactly and how offensive to follow that up with this.

[HereSince1628]

5. She maybe gets part of it. Ask her about her privilege to disobey presidential directives.

That sure looks like privilege most people wouldn't dare... disrespecting a President.

On it's face I see a celebrity white woman disrespecting the first black president of the US.

[Politicalboi]

6. LOL!

Clearly she gets it alright. That's why she's having a rich fundraiser on Friday. It was her privilege to push a woman out of her way to the Metro. Yeah, she gets it. She's privileged and she's proud of it.

[Octafish]

7. Privilege (noun)

a simple definition

: a right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others
: a special opportunity to do something that makes you proud
[font size="6"][font color="green"]: the advantage that wealthy and powerful people have over other people in a society[/font color][/font size]

[CharlotteVale]

8. Who's "our"? And compared to whom?

[rbrnmw]

9. She is talking about White Privilege

http://wbt.com/hillary-clinton-targets-trump-white-privilege-in-sweeping-speech/

[chascarrillo]

12. Privilege to say she'll only talk to white people? -nt-

[geek tragedy]

18. all aboard!

[chascarrillo]

24. Posts hidden by Jury: 12 -nt-

[geek tragedy]

28. fucks given--zero nt

[vintx]

14. LOL... Yeah, she totally gets how to pander...

What a marvelous example of courage!

[geek tragedy]

21. it's as if Bernie Sanders supporters don't like to hear

talk about white privilege.

Hmmm.

[vintx]

45. No, the problem is all she does is talk.

She had no problem with straight privilege until she was forced to evolve. She's not a leader so all her talk is just posturing.

[jmg257]

15. She doesn't see "black" or "white"....as long as you got the green. Nt

[Autumn]

17. She needs to recognize her privilege.

[Waiting For Everyman]

20. Woo hoo, she learned some buzz words

that's all she needs. Check the box on racial activism.

[Bill USA]

22. No. 14 from Karl Rove's playbook: "Take your opponent’s words out of context."

Republicans know the playbook well....

Here's more than just one phrase:


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/02/16/Hillary-Clinton-says-white-Americans-need-to-recognize-our-privilege/6381455664760/

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- In a speech in New York City's Harlem neighborhood Tuesday, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton discussed systemic racism and called on white Americans to do their part to "practice humility."

"White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers that you face every day," she told a crowd at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Monday. "We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility, rather than assume that our experiences are everyone's experiences."

{ IOW: White Americans need to recognize we have privileges/advantages others do not. And we should be more aware of the disadvantages others have to deal with every day that White Americans know little or nothing about_Bill_USA}

The speech was also to unveil her $2 billion plan to end the "school-to-prison pipeline," by creating "School Climate Support Teams," comprised of social workers, educators and behavioral health specialists who are placed in schools with high rates of in-school arrests.

"This is not just an education issue," she said. "This is a civil rights issue, and we cannot ignore it any longer. The bottom line is this: We need to be sending our kids to college. We need a cradle-to-college pipeline, not sending them into court and into prison."

The speech also took aim at voter ID laws that have become more prolific in recent years.
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[4139]

25. '...and it's MY TURN to be President because I was President Clinton wife so I get frontsies '

.

[pantsonfire]

26. Right after...

"Madam Secretary, thank you for last nights meal. The $5,400 is the least Ed and I can do to support you. If only we could do more. It's been a privilege to meet you, take care."

"Thank you for coming and the privilege was all mine".

Or wait is it pleasure?

[imari362]

29. Again

When is she giving her "White privilege" speech before her White audiences?

[notadmblnd]

54. She's not not gonna tell white people anything of the sort.

One would think that it is white people who need to hear that. Not the POC she panders to.

Does she ever talk about race when her audience is majority white or does she only speak about race in heavily populated urban areas or churches where the majority is POC?

[cloudbase]

31. Please quit dissin' Mrs. Clinton.

She left the White House dead broke and bootstrapped herself to where she is today. That's not privilege, that's hard work!

[Zira]

59. Did you see the house she moved to when she was "dead" broke?

The dead broke is a lie like everything else with that woman. Bill and Hillary were on the take before they ever got to the white house. The were being investigated for corrupt land deals. They did not leave broke.

[tralala]

33. She's so intersectional!

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Yeah, she scratches tumblr's itch by saying the right words.

everyone else, though, can expect a whole bunch of more of the same.

[Tarc]

39. This will make the "bros", from Gamergate to Men's Rights Activists, go into a tizzy

[Warren DeMontague]

49. "privilege" is being paid more for a single speech than most Americans make in 5 years.

[Kalidurga]

46. Nope she doesn't get it

If she got it she would have been looking in the mirror.

[tralala]

50. N/T

[Kalidurga]

55. Groovy

[guillaumeb]

51. Saying and acting are two different things.

What do you feel that Clinton gets?

[morningfog]

57. She gets that someone told her BLM wants to hear about white privilege.