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Sunday, June 28, 2015

HILLARY TO BLACK AUDIENCE: "ALL LIVES MATTER"



From the NY Times, via Legal Insurrection:
The remark caused a stir on social media, with some African-Americans on Twitter suggesting that Mrs. Clinton had lost their votes.
The Rev. Renita Lamkin, who was in the audience at the event, told NPR that Mrs. Clinton's comment did not go unnoticed.
"That blew a lot of support that she may have been able to engender here," she said.
The phrase "black lives matter" has become a rallying cry in the last year for demonstrators amid a spate of episodes around the country, including the 18-year-old Michael Brown’s death in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where white police officers have been accused of using excessive force against black suspects.
Judith Butler, a professor at University of California, Berkeley, summed up the frustration with the use of "all lives matter" in The Times in January.
"When some people rejoin with 'All Lives Matter' they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue," she wrote. "It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve."
Nobody should be surprised by this. Clearly, even when the Hildebeest is in full-scale pander mode she still screws it up. But it is really cool to see Clinton's paper of record linking to Twitchy. Well done!

And speaking of Twitchy...















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