Hillary to #blackLivesMatter: "If that is your position then I will talk only to white people"

[thesquanderer]

35. Thanks for that.

Here's some relevant exposition.

When one man suggested in the video that Clinton was being presumptuous by saying the Black Lives Matter movement should consider which policy prescriptions to support, Clinton gestured forcefully as she countered his assertion.

“Well, respectfully, if that is your position then I will talk only to white people about how we are going to deal with the very real problems,” Clinton said facetiously, before the questioner interjected.

“That's not what I mean,” he says. “What I'm saying is, what you just said was a form of victim-blaming.”

At that, Clinton turns partly away from him and starts to shake her head “no.”

“Right? You were saying that what the Black Lives Matter movement needs to do to change white hearts,” the man continues, before Clinton interjects.

“Look, I don't believe you change hearts,” Clinton says, chopping her hands in front of the man’s chest for emphasis. “I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You're not going to change every heart. You’re not.”

Still gesturing, Clinton continued: “But at the end of the day, we could do a whole lot to change some hearts and change some systems and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them, to live up to their own God-given potential, to live safely without fear of violence in their own communities, to have a decent school, to have a decent house, to have a decent future.”
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“So we can do it one of many ways. You can keep the movement going, which you have started, and through it you may actually change some hearts,” Clinton said. “But if that's all that happens, we'll be back here in 10 years having the same conversation. We will not have all of the changes that you deserve to see happen in your lifetime because of your willingness to get out there and talk about this.”

One can agree or disagree with her assessment, but to take that line out of context and call her racist is, not just unfair, but IMO, irresponsible.