Black Lives Matter activist disrupted a private event featuring Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and confronted her regarding her past support for policies that enabled mass incarceration, the Huffington Post reported.
Footage from the event shows Ashley Williams stand behind the former secretary of state and hold up a towel bearing the statement, “we have to bring them to heel,” a remark Clinton made in 1996 in support of the Violent Crime Control Act regarding gang members, who she also described as “super-predators.”
After Clinton turns around and reads the sign, Williams tells her, “We want you to apologize for mass incarceration. I am not a ‘super-predator,’ Hillary Clinton. Will you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?”
“Can I talk?” Clinton replies, before continuing her speech as a Secret Service agent attempts to convince Williams to leave.
Event attendees can be heard behind Williams calling her “rude.” However, she continues to press Clinton, telling her, “Please explain it to us. You owe black people an apology.”
“You know what? Nobody’s ever asked me before,” Clinton responds as another agent takes Williams by the waist and leads her away. “You’re the first person to ask me, and I am happy to address it. But you are the first person to ask me.”
Clinton then resumes her speech as the agent leads Williams away.
Williams told the Post that she and a fellow activist contributed $500 in order to attend the private event in Charleston, South Carolina. The state’s Democratic primary is scheduled to be held on Friday.
“I wanted to bring her to confront her own words,” Williams said after the event. “We did this because we wanted to make sure that black people are paying attention to her record, and we want to know what Hillary we are getting.”
https://twitter.com/Ms_Brina/status/703104945327767552
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A very good letter by Ashley Williams. Hillary as the white savior of the 21st century doesn’t fly. She needs to go away, she really does, she’s done enough damage.
Is Hillary a predator?
pred·a·tor
ˈnoun
1. an animal that naturally preys on others.
2. a person or group that ruthlessly exploits others.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/702992498084286464
She won’t do it.
https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/702976653505376256
Capehart’s the ‘Caping” (PUN INTENTED) Negro to come to Hillary’s rescue, huh.
URBAN DICTIONARY:
Caping
when you blindly defend someone, no matter how wrong they are.
In his argument with Vetta, Larry kept saying, “don’t be mean to Susan.”
“Why are you caping so hard for Susan, when you know she slapped my mom?” Vetta asks angrily.
“Because she’s my friend.” Larry said.
Tell it!
Of course he ignores Hillary’s madding display of being entitled and really enlightened, again flipping a acknowledged false equivalency leapfrogging for the Clinton’s neoliberalism. His exposure betraying any semblance to the fourth estate is so sad twitter.com drags him by giving him his own hashtag.. #CapehartBlockParty
Hi JimA,
It’s a pleasure to see your fonts. I missed the Capehart dragging. He blocked me after Ferguson. I’m glad to see Twitter go in on him.
https://twitter.com/deray/status/702971454590210050
https://twitter.com/deray/status/702972028681371648
#WhichHillary #AshleyWilliams didn’t fall for the fake @HillaryClinton. Be like Ashley!
E. Mo Black @EmoNegro1
@luke_butterfly I think it would go a long way to repairing the rift from 2008 that is still there.
https://twitter.com/EmoNegro1/status/702911236862779392
PLEASE GO TO HIS TWITTER FEED. HE HAS BEEN BRINGING THE TRUTH THIS MORNING.
THIS SUMS IT UP FOR ME:
Nothing but TRUTHS in his Twitter feed, ALL.DAY.LONG. NOBODY gets a FREE RIDE.
AS IT SHOULD BE!
Ashley, that $500 you spent to get into that fundraiser….PRICELESS!
Not the first time Hillary’s tone and body language changed when confronted with #BlackLivesMatter. Ashley Williams brought out the real Hillary.
Ashley Williams has more boldness & courage to confront Hillary Clinton than all the @OfficialCBC combined. Ashley did the damn thing. Go Ashley! Werk!
Hillary: “I’m happy to address it, NOW BACK TO THE ISSUES; THE ISSUES THAT I THINK ARE IMPORTANT.”
Did y’all hear how Hillary dismissed Ashley’s concerns? Ok, back to the issues.
Yeah, like the devastating effects of mass incarceration are not an “issue”.
Cornel West: Black America Choosing Clinton ‘Confuses the Gravy Train With the Freedom Train’
by Sam Reisman | 11:01 pm, February 24th, 2016
West explained that Sanders’s social progressivism should have made him a much more attractive candidate than Clinton, whom he blasted for her ties to Wall Street, her husband’s policies that led to mass incarceration of African-Americans, her connections to lobbyists for private prisons, and remarks she made in 1996, in which she referred to urban youth as “super-predators” with “no conscience and no empathy.”
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LOL GO CORNY!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
This is bringing receipts!!!
DAMN SKIPPY!
Good Morning, Everyone!
I’ve been up late writing and reworking our open letter SG and Ametia…so much to say, but how to say it without all the frustration and anger that’s just pouring out on the page …
Eliihaas, take care of yourself. We know you’re going to BRING IT.
Thanks for all you are and all you do.
Yes, TY, eliihass. Your frustration and anger just proves how much is there. I find it overwhelming when we talk about this, I keep learning more. It’s a deep hole, to be sure.
I know you will bring it, Eliihass.
https://twitter.com/2020Warren/status/702748931910807552
We know that Hillary isn’t going to APOLOGIZE for SHIT.
She could be sitting on a toilet, pop out a big pile of funky shit, lift her pasty ass off the seat, stare at it and say: I didn’t take a shit in this toilet.
Hillary knows darn well it wasn’t the first time she has known people are outraged about her racist rhetoric. Read your TL. #Liar
Watch these…they are from just a few months back…but everyone plays along and allows her to just keep lying and reinventing herself right before our eyes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqJ-YzXrqKE
Hillary Clinton says no one has ever asked her to apologize for her racist rhetoric.
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Very telling. She doesn’t think any wrong was done
of course not. The rules don’t apply to the CLINTONS!