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Bill Clintons Apology: Not Accepted!
by Herbert Dyer, Jr.
July 21, 2015
....big SNIP....
It was just this past week at the NAACPs annual confab when Bill Clinton made a naked play for Black votes for his wife Hillary in next years presidential sweepstakes. Bills ploy followed a similar effort by President Obama himself. Now in his sixth year in office, Obama has had an epiphany of sorts. He has suddenly realized that there may be too many black people locked up and for no good reason. Thus, the President has issued a supremely belated call for an overhaul of the criminal justice system. He has even commuted the sentences of some 40-plus federal prisoners (out of 7,000-plus applicants and 30,000 overall) convicted under draconian drug laws. (Seems more like a commutation lottery than a compassionate or committed effort to right an obvious wrong).
Bill Clinton not only agreed with Obama but went so far as to say that the 1994 anti-crime law he enacted was a major reason so many Black men and women are now languishing in county jails, state and federal prisons, and are otherwise under some form of supervision by this nation-states criminal justice system. And both Obamas and Bills belated initiatives follow Hillarys own call for an end to the incarceration generation.
These political theatrics are so chock-full of hypocrisy and cynicism that it is just impossible to ignore: Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Democrats and Republicans across the board have all considered Clintons 1994 anti-crime law as one of Clintons crowning achievements as President. Politicians of all stripes have consistently credited that law with lowering crime rates nationwide by essentially unleashing police forces onto Black communities to rid them of dangerous open-air, street corner drug dealers, uncontrollable drug addicts, shoplifters and other petty thieves of all description, unlicensed/unregistered drivers, illegal U-turners and lane changers, jaywalkers, and, of course, those dastardly public urinaters.
....SNIP....The devastating effects of Clintons law are now being felt by millions upon millions of people mostly Black and Brown people. The numbers are well known by now: 2.2 million-plus people are now behind bars, double the number locked up when Clinton came to power. The US holds a full 25 percent of the entire worlds prisoners, while it constitutes only five percent of its population. Almost half of that percent are Black and Brown people.
The Clintons are counting on the forgiving nature of Black people....
Read in entirety~
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/bill-clintons-apology-not-accepted/
by Herbert Dyer, Jr.
July 21, 2015
....big SNIP....
It was just this past week at the NAACPs annual confab when Bill Clinton made a naked play for Black votes for his wife Hillary in next years presidential sweepstakes. Bills ploy followed a similar effort by President Obama himself. Now in his sixth year in office, Obama has had an epiphany of sorts. He has suddenly realized that there may be too many black people locked up and for no good reason. Thus, the President has issued a supremely belated call for an overhaul of the criminal justice system. He has even commuted the sentences of some 40-plus federal prisoners (out of 7,000-plus applicants and 30,000 overall) convicted under draconian drug laws. (Seems more like a commutation lottery than a compassionate or committed effort to right an obvious wrong).
Bill Clinton not only agreed with Obama but went so far as to say that the 1994 anti-crime law he enacted was a major reason so many Black men and women are now languishing in county jails, state and federal prisons, and are otherwise under some form of supervision by this nation-states criminal justice system. And both Obamas and Bills belated initiatives follow Hillarys own call for an end to the incarceration generation.
These political theatrics are so chock-full of hypocrisy and cynicism that it is just impossible to ignore: Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Democrats and Republicans across the board have all considered Clintons 1994 anti-crime law as one of Clintons crowning achievements as President. Politicians of all stripes have consistently credited that law with lowering crime rates nationwide by essentially unleashing police forces onto Black communities to rid them of dangerous open-air, street corner drug dealers, uncontrollable drug addicts, shoplifters and other petty thieves of all description, unlicensed/unregistered drivers, illegal U-turners and lane changers, jaywalkers, and, of course, those dastardly public urinaters.
....SNIP....The devastating effects of Clintons law are now being felt by millions upon millions of people mostly Black and Brown people. The numbers are well known by now: 2.2 million-plus people are now behind bars, double the number locked up when Clinton came to power. The US holds a full 25 percent of the entire worlds prisoners, while it constitutes only five percent of its population. Almost half of that percent are Black and Brown people.
The Clintons are counting on the forgiving nature of Black people....
Read in entirety~
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/bill-clintons-apology-not-accepted/
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Going from bragging about to apologizing for devastating policy is quite a journey.
AtomicKitten
Jul 2015
#4
Really bad. If it comes up, I wonder if he'll also apologize for cutting funds for state
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#6
Thank you - in other words they promised much and gave nothing. Now that I look back I cannot
jwirr
Jul 2015
#53
....Welfare "reform", repealing Glass-Steagal, China PNTR, Outsourcing, Telecommunications Act.
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#12
And when we ask how many lives were ruined we must not forget that it was not just the
jwirr
Jul 2015
#58
Just noticing your sig pic for the first time....It makes me uncomfortable, I as a white person
randys1
Jul 2015
#77
It's particularly rich given how Bernie supporters have behaved in the wake of BLM
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#55
Apologizing for instating bad policy seems to be a greater virtue than fighting against bad policy..
frylock
Jul 2015
#72
Also I am doing what I can to help Bernie win including donating money. If he loses I will not
jwirr
Jul 2015
#61
THANK YOU Divernan for posting this excerpt! Its probably more relevant than the portion
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#24
Tried to tell many people this, but DU has blinders on. They simply ignore how devastating
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2015
#25
yup, he created a 'service economy' - then immediatly insourced (H-1b visa) and outsourced it to
HFRN
Jul 2015
#70
I don't think these are told you so statements. A lot of us fell for them twice. And some of us
jwirr
Jul 2015
#63
In the U.S. as in North Korea, whole families also suffer by association w/ criminals
Divernan
Jul 2015
#49
I explained what was going on when this all first started. It was Bernie fans attacking Hillary
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#62
Many on the left during that time knew better. It wasn't the right thing then, nor now.
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#67
That still didn't change the tough-on-crime rhetoric of the 1990s or public opinion.
Galraedia
Jul 2015
#71
Yes, a first lady, senator and SOS should just spit at people she doesn't agree with.........
Beacool
Jul 2015
#101
Nor should it be. Hillary is going to have a Minority problem once people learn
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#95
Sad to see Democratic leaders enacting republican policies. Over & over. /nt
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#97
All those spoiled rich party girls doing primo lines in the bathroom...
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2015
#108