Hillary Clinton Blames Whites, Cops for Deaths of Young Black Men
Hillary Clinton used a CNN interview on Friday to completely embrace the Democrats’ claim that white people and cops must change to help reduce the number of African-Americans killed in tense exchanges with cops.
“I will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families
who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have ‘The
Talk,’ about, you now, how to really protect themselves [from police],
when they’re the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters
with police,” Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.
“We’ve got to figure out what is
happening when routine traffic stops, when routine arrests, escalate
into killings … Clearly, there seems to be a terrible disconnect between
many police departments and officers and the people they have sworn to
protect,” she said.
Federal policing guidelines are needed
because “we have 18,000 police departments… [some of which need more
training to] go after systemic racism, which is a reality, and to go
after systemic bias,” she said.
“We’ve got to start once again respecting and treating each other with the dignity that every person deserves,” she said.
The statement echoed a tweet from Friday morning.
White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 8, 2016
To win in November, Clinton need a high turnout of African-American voters.
Neither Blitzer nor Clinton suggested that
African-American communities have a role in reducing police-encounter
deaths, which usually occur in tense engagements between a few cops and a
few suspects with extensive criminal histories.
In general, young African-American men
are far more likely to commit crimes than young white men, young Asian
men or young Latino men. A November 2011 report
by the Justice Department showed that young African-American men are
just 1 percent of the population, yet are responsible for a
disproportionate percentage of murders in the nation.
Clinton suggested that people who disagree with her agenda are racists. “There
is so much more to be done… we can’t be engaging in hateful rhetoric or
incitement of violence, we need to be bringing people together … we
need more love and kindness.”
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