Bill Clinton Gets Into It With Black Lives Matter Protestors

For once, the Teflon Man has been unable to brush aside the subsequent firestorm his reprimanding of the protestors created. Whereas he once would be able to laugh off such criticism, the media seems to have thrown him under the bus and taken the side of Black Lives Matter in this particular spat:

“As the protesters continued to demonstrate in the back of the room, Clinton even went so far as to drive a wedge between them and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a Clinton surrogate and civil rights movement veteran.

‘You can trust them, or Congressman John Lewis, the last remaining hero of the civil rights movement,’ Clinton said, apparently oblivious to the fact that Black Lives Matter has been called the ‘new civil rights movement’ by prominent publications like The Guardian and National Public Radio.

Bill Clinton’s insensitive remarks are reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign for the presidency, when Harlem residents punished Clinton at the polls, claiming her husband was the face of gentrification in the historically black neighborhood. As the New York Times reported, between 2002, when Clinton set up shop in the neighborhood, and 2006, when Clinton was elected to her second U.S. Senate term, approximately 75 black-owned businesses had been forced to relocate due to gentrification.

‘I met him and shook his hand, and I felt here was a white man who would come and help revitalize the neighborhood,’ Beamon Highsmith told the Times. ‘But hell, he didn’t change it for us. He changed it for other people.’

Law professor and activist Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, famously called out the Clintons for their support of policies that increased black poverty and black incarceration rates in the nineties. The facts bear out Alexander’s argument, as Clinton imprisoned more black Americans during his two terms than even Republican hero Ronald Reagan.”

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Source: US Uncut