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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's been quite a weekend for Hillary's two top surrogates, Bill and Chelsea [View all]
First, Bill gives one of the most bizarre speeches of this cycle:
Bill Clinton tells rally in Tennessee: 'We are all mixed-race people'
Bill Clinton has risked inflaming the Democratic primarys current debate over race, telling a rally in support of his wife in Tennessee that everyone has some African ancestry.
Unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100%, 100% from sub-Saharan Africa, we are all mixed-race people, the former president told a crowd in Memphis on Friday.
Bill Clinton has risked inflaming the Democratic primarys current debate over race, telling a rally in support of his wife in Tennessee that everyone has some African ancestry.
Unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100%, 100% from sub-Saharan Africa, we are all mixed-race people, the former president told a crowd in Memphis on Friday.
Link: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/14/bill-clinton-we-are-all-mixed-race-tennessee-rally
Then, Chelsea says it's irresponsible to call for an end to the mass incarceration her parents helped to create and vastly expand:
Chelsea Clinton: Bernie Sanders plan to end mass incarceration is worrying'
Speaking to a packed town hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Chelsea Clinton took the opportunity to denounce Senator Sanders proposed criminal justice reforms when she was asked about her mothers vagaries towards African American policy.
She replied that Senator Sanders advocated the end of mass incarceration, aiming for the US to no longer be the country with the highest number of people in jail by the end of his first term in 2020 - but his plan "worried" her.
Speaking to a packed town hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Chelsea Clinton took the opportunity to denounce Senator Sanders proposed criminal justice reforms when she was asked about her mothers vagaries towards African American policy.
She replied that Senator Sanders advocated the end of mass incarceration, aiming for the US to no longer be the country with the highest number of people in jail by the end of his first term in 2020 - but his plan "worried" her.
Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/chelsea-clinton-bernie-sanders-plan-to-end-mass-incarceration-is-worrying-a6875986.html
At this point, the only larger faux pas would be for one of them to say, "I don't see color, I see people." It's almost as if a wealthy former first family who depend on big money interests for their continued existence could be out of touch with the majority of the country.
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It's been quite a weekend for Hillary's two top surrogates, Bill and Chelsea [View all]
Mufaddal
Feb 2016
OP
I am multiracial and even I don't tell, others I meet about my ancestry and certainly don't
Dragonfli
Feb 2016
#8
I guess she's tired of shooting herself in the foot, so she handed the guns to Bill and Chelsea.
Fuddnik
Feb 2016
#19
The Clintons don't see race, they see us as a bunch of Walmart clothes.
Spitfire of ATJ
Feb 2016
#22