2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Anyone here who directly benefited from or was the child of a middle class person during the 50s-70s [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)--crimes, but "crime in the streets" has been code for "black" ever since Nixon. Clinton knows it very well, and she has apologized to Black Lives Matter about it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/25/clinton-heckled-by-black-lives-matter-activist/
Ashley Williams, a 23-year-old activist from Charlotte, interrupted Clinton during a private fundraiser in Charleston on Wednesday night. Williams stood and demanded an apology from Clinton for the high incarceration rate for black Americans, and confronted her with the words of a speech Clinton delivered 20 years ago voicing support for the now-debunked theory of "super-predators."
"They are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators,' " Clinton said in 1996, at the height of anxiety during her husband's administration about high rates of crime and violence. "No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."