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In reply to the discussion: Black Lives Matter Protesters Interrupt Bill Clinton in Philadelphia [View all]me b zola
(19,053 posts)25. People are protesting Bill's little gathering because they disagree
...Clinton era policies have had a harmful effect on all working class families and had a disastrous effect on the Black community in particular. Mass incarceration of African Americans is what was intended? Good paying jobs leaving for overseas was intended? Throwing people off of welfare, leaving children to fend for themselves as working class parents went off to work without child-care, that was intended?
I think that you should make political ads for Hillary. People will pay attention to your message.
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I can't help but notice the tiny crowd that the former president was able to assemble for his wife
me b zola
Apr 2016
#8
it takes a lot of guts to step up and I agree. Kudos to activist kids these days. :D
roguevalley
Apr 2016
#9
So Clinton can characterize Blacks as 'poor', but woe be it for Sanders to do so.
JimDandy
Apr 2016
#10
OMG, the second video where he attempts to explain away the crime bill he signed into law
me b zola
Apr 2016
#11
I know, what a telling comment for him to make! Couple of people who were black wanted more
ViseGrip
Apr 2016
#17
I think that they are baffled by the entire idea of having to speak to "little people"
me b zola
Apr 2016
#39
OMG 1:40 first video - he has literally 10 people in front of him with signs and the rest are just
thereismore
Apr 2016
#13
Other than his despicable remarks, look at all that hand and arm waving - and read this...
jillan
Apr 2016
#14
Hill and Bill have a bad habit of waving their fingers in little people's faces. Awful.
ViseGrip
Apr 2016
#16
Bill just told me he saved us from sure death from gangsters hopped-up on crack with his crime bill.
thereismore
Apr 2016
#20
He needs to hush and listen to what the Black Lives Matter activists actually have to say.
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#37