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2016 Postmortem

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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 04:51 PM Apr 2016

Bill Clinton Reaches Peak White Mansplain in a Face-Off Against Black Lives Matter Protesters [View all]

Excerpt from jezebel.com:

Bill Clinton Reached Peak White Mansplain in a Face-Off Against Black Lives Matter Protesters

Bill Clinton filled in for his wife and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at a rally in Philadelphia, where he proceeded to clash with protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement in a way that can only be categorized as “peak cis white mansplain.”

The incident, which took place on April 7, began when Clinton addressed a group of BLM demonstrators situated near the podium, many of whom held homemade signs festooned with anti-Hillary slogans.

Many of the messages, like “Hillary Clinton Is A Murder” [sic] and “Black Youth Are Not Super Predators” alluded to the former president’s 1994 crime bill—Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act—which has since been held responsible for a rise in mass incarceration rates.

According to Reuters, ten years after the bill was passed into law, “6 percent of all black men in their 30s were in prison, a rate six times higher than that of white men of the same age,” with 1.56 million prisoners overall incarcerated in federal or state institutions.
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more: http://jezebel.com/bill-clinton-reached-peak-white-mansplain-in-a-face-off-1769764915


Bill's half baked non-apology seems to be getting him nowhere fast.
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