Clinton Pushes Civil Rights Agenda, Including Gay Rights, In NAACP Speech

[William769]

(North Charleston, South Carolina) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights, told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for black Americans.

"We have had an attorney general who doesn't respect the rule of law or enforce the civil rights laws on the books," she told about 900 people at the annual Freedom Fund Banquet of the Charleston National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

She applauded the Friday decision by an appeals court in Louisiana tossing out the aggravated battery conviction that could have sent a black teenager to prison for 15 years in last year's beating of a white classmate in the racially tense town of Jena.

The teenager, 16 at the time of the December beating of a white youth, should not have been tried as an adult, the appeals court ruled. He is one of six black students charged in the attack and one of five originally charged as adults with attempted second-degree murder.

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[beaconess]

1. Thanks for mentioning Jena - this got woefully little attention on DU nt

[Laughing Mirror]

2. What kind of "gay rights" is she pushing?

Gay rights as civil rights? That was in her speech? It would be interesting to see a transcript of her civil rights pitch to the NAACP in South Carolina.