"Newly-released video shows Hillary Clinton’s meeting with the
Boston chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this month
after the activists were initially denied entry to a campaign event.
The video shows Clinton meet backstage in New Hampshire with what
appears to be a group of three activists. One of the activists compares
the prison system in the U.S. to the plantation system.
“America’s first drug is free black labor. And turning black bodies into profit,” the activist tells
Clinton as she nods her
head, seemingly agreeing. “The mass incarceration system mirrors an
awful lot like the prison. The prison plantation system. It’s a similar
thread. And until someone takes that message and speaks that truth to
white people in this country, so that we can actually take on
anti-blackness as a founding problem in this problem.”
The activist suggested that the mass incarceration of individuals is motivated by money before asking Clinton a question about “what in your heart has changed that is going to change the direction of this country?”
“What in you, not your platform, not what you’re supposed to say, how do you actually feel that is different than you did before?” the activist asked.
Clinton said that it was a “very thoughtful question” that deserved a “thoughtful answer.”
In a separate clip published online, things briefly got tense after the activist tells Clinton that this has always been a “white problem of violence.”
“There’s not much that we can do to stop the violence against us,” he told Clinton.
The Democratic frontrunner pushed back.
“Respectfully, if that is your position, then I will only talk to white people about how we are going to deal with these very real problems,” she shot back.
“That’s not what I mean,” the activist replied. “But, what you just said was a form of victim blaming. You were saying what the Black Lives Matter movement needs to do to change white hearts is to—.”
Clinton said that she doesn’t believe in changing all hearts, but instead changing laws and allocation of resources.
“You change the way systems operate,” she said." TheBlaze
“America’s first drug is free black labor. And turning black bodies into profit,” the activist tells
The activist suggested that the mass incarceration of individuals is motivated by money before asking Clinton a question about “what in your heart has changed that is going to change the direction of this country?”
“What in you, not your platform, not what you’re supposed to say, how do you actually feel that is different than you did before?” the activist asked.
Clinton said that it was a “very thoughtful question” that deserved a “thoughtful answer.”
In a separate clip published online, things briefly got tense after the activist tells Clinton that this has always been a “white problem of violence.”
“There’s not much that we can do to stop the violence against us,” he told Clinton.
The Democratic frontrunner pushed back.
“Respectfully, if that is your position, then I will only talk to white people about how we are going to deal with these very real problems,” she shot back.
“That’s not what I mean,” the activist replied. “But, what you just said was a form of victim blaming. You were saying what the Black Lives Matter movement needs to do to change white hearts is to—.”
Clinton said that she doesn’t believe in changing all hearts, but instead changing laws and allocation of resources.
“You change the way systems operate,” she said." TheBlaze
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