Despite her reaching out to the black community during her 20 bids for the presidency, she actively supported and lobbied for her husband while more and more black people were sent to prison. The resurfacing of her book's extract has dragged Clinton's record on racial equality into the spotlight. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to heel." (Clinton has since apologized for using the term and admitted parts of the 1994 bill were a mistake.)
They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators-no conscience, no empathy.
Of the legislation, which critics say ramped up mass incarceration and disproportionately affected African-Americans, Clinton said: "We also have to have an organized effort against gangs. But, 1996, the year her book came out, was also the year she made a speech in New Hampshire in support of her husband's controversial 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. In her book, Clinton tried to soften the reality of unpaid black men serving a wealthy white woman. He goes on to note that prisoners working in the state legislature are serving people who support laws that "make Louisiana the hardest state to hold police accountable within." Like in Arkansas, Sinyangwe adds, some of Louisiana's prisoners work at the governor's mansion. By comparison, black people make up 32 percent of Louisiana's total population. Sinyangwe adds that the state has the world's highest incarceration rate, with black people making up 66 percent of the prison population. In a string of tweets, Sinyangwe talks about his experience of visiting the Louisiana state legislature and finding black prisoners serving white lawmakers for free. Jing, who also refers to a June 5 Twitter conversation about the Clintons' use of prison labor from Samuel Sinyangwe, an activist, data scientist and policy analyst. A 2016 article from Mother Jones notes that when it comes to prison labor, "some state states, including Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia, do not pay inmates at all." On Twitter, Jing wrote that "Hillary Clinton was a direct participant in what correctly described as modern slavery." She adds that most of the workers were convicted murderers and she became friendly with "a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences."ĭespite her alleged friendships with these men, Clinton tells her readers: "We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule." Despite having no psychological qualifications, she later asserts that these men did not have "inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning" but instead they may have been "emotional illiterates."Ĭlinton makes no mention of whether the men received any money for working for her and her husband. "When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor's mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs," Clinton writes. Bernie Sanders, shared two pages of the work in which Clinton reminisces about the black prisoners who worked in the Arkansas governor's mansion she shared with her husband, Bill Clinton, who led the state from 1979 to 19 to 1992. On June 6, Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter who supports Clinton's Democratic opponent Sen. Twitter users have reacted with surprise and fury over excerpts from Hillary Clinton's 1996 book It Takes A Village.
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