“Hillary Clinton has a pattern of throwing the Black community under the bus when it serves her politically. She called our boys ‘super-predators’ in ’96, then she race-baited when running against Obama in ‘08, now she’s a lifelong civil rights activist. I just want to know which Hillary is running for President: the one from ’96, ’08, or the new Hillary?”
That question of Williams prompted the Twitter hashtag #WhichHillary
HuffPost stated that since the incident this past Wednesday, Clinton’s sent a statement:
In that speech, I was talking about the impact violent crime and vicious drug cartels were having on communities across the country and the particular danger they posed to children and families. Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today. My life’s work has been about lifting up children and young people who’ve been let down by the system or by society. Kids who never got the chance they deserved. And unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in African-American communities. We haven’t done right by them. We need to. We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline.
As an advocate, as First Lady, as Senator, I was a champion for children. And my campaign for president is about breaking down the barriers that stand in the way of all kids, so every one of them can live up to their God-given potential.
So…given that statement I’m guessing her choice of carefully placed words:
“the kinds of kids that are called [super-predators: no conscience, no empathy]” meant she was saying what other people felt about ‘those people’ and perhaps
…(her choice of words)
“[we have to ] bring them to heel” (according to the above mentioned statement of explanation given) meant:
“Heal”: to make sound/healthy/whole again.
Welp.
As the Hillary prepares to square off with Bernie Sanders in the high-number democrat state of South Carolina, whether or not the offended is ‘healed’ from her explanation or scarred from her choice of words from her past remains to be seen…
