Killer Mike Made a Remark About Hillary Clinton’s Uterus. It Doesn’t Sound Better in Context. [View all]

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/02/17/the_context_of_killer_mike_s_sexist_remark_about_hillary_clinton_s_uterus.html



Stalwart Bernie Sanders supporter Killer Mike is catching flak for using a fellow Sanders supporter’s quote—“a uterus doesn’t qualify you to be president of the United States”—in a speech he made on behalf of the candidate in Atlanta on Tuesday.

At Morehouse College, the Run the Jewels rapper took aim at Hillary Clinton:


When people tell us, ‘Hold on, wait awhile.’ And that’s what the other Democrat is telling you. ‘Hold on, Black Lives Matter. Just wait awhile. Hold on, young people in this country, just wait awhile.’ And then, and then … she have your own mama come to you. Your own mama say to you, ‘Well, you’re a woman.’ But I talked to [activist] Jane Elliott a few weeks ago, and Jane said, ‘Michael, a uterus doesn’t qualify you to be president of the United States. You have to be—you have to have policy that’s reflective of social justice.’
The implication, of course, is that Clinton isn’t qualified to be president based on her actual accomplishments, and that her supporters have only rallied behind her because she’s a woman—specifically, one with a uterus. Now, Killer Mike is protesting that he can’t be held responsible for the crude phrasing because he didn’t think it up—he just parroted it. “I didn't say that,” he tweeted on Tuesday night. “A progressive activist woman said [it] to me.” His fans are saying “haters” are “distorting his words” and quoting him out of context:

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