I’m Not a ‘Super-Predator’: Why I Confronted Hillary Clinton

[Stellar]

US Uncut caught up with Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams for an exclusive interview in Charleston, South Carolina shortly after Williams disrupted a high-ticket fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, demanding she answer for her “super-predator” comments in 1996.

At the ritzy event, Williams and an accompanying filmmaker demanded Clinton be held accountable for comments made back in 1996 in reference to African-American youth, referring to them as “Super predators,” adding, “We have to bring them to heel.”

The Youtube clip quickly went viral on twitter with the trending hashtag #WhichHillary.

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US Uncut caught up with Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams for an exclusive interview in Charleston, South Carolina shortly after Williams disrupted a high-ticket fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, demanding she answer for her “super-predator” comments in 1996.

At the ritzy event, Williams and an accompanying filmmaker demanded Clinton be held accountable for comments made back in 1996 in reference to African-American youth, referring to them as “Super predators,” adding, “We have to bring them to heel.”

The Youtube clip quickly went viral on twitter with the trending hashtag #WhichHillary.

“She said that ‘We need to bring them to heel.'” Williams said. “And in this quote she is pathologizing and demonizing and also criminalizing black youth and other youth of color in terms of how they participate in criminal activity or how they are involved in criminal activity. I found these comments really racist and inappropriate. And also untrue.

“I feel there’s been a sense of idolization with Hillary Clinton… I wanted her to apologize to black people and other people of color who have been affected by mass incarceration in a very real material way. And I also wanted her to take responsibility for the ways in which she was complicit in those things. I still haven’t gotten an apology.”

Far from apologizing, Clinton snapped at Williams, “You’re the first person to ask me that” before kicking them out of the event, which she payed $500 to attend.

“Ultimately the hashtag came out of thinking about #WhichHillary Clinton are we getting?” Ashley continued. “So are we getting this 1994 Hillary Clinton who pathologies these black youth in this very criminal way? Are we getting the Hillary Clinton who made inappropriate comments about President Obama on the campaign trail, being a black person running for President?”

This is referring to an infamously dirty tactic by the Clinton campaign, in which they showed a picture of Obama in traditional Somali garb during an official trip, and implied Obama was a Muslim.

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[WillyT]

1. K & R !!!

[leftofcool]

2. Sorry Ashley, your creds are gone now

You missed an opportunity to ask questions and chose to yell instead. When Hillary reached out to you, you chose not to accept the olive branch. If there was no apology, then why did you put out a statement saying "apology not accepted?" And you just said it yourself......."You don't like the idolization of Hillary Clinton." Bam! That was your problem from the get go. It was never about something Hillary said 25 years ago. It was all about you disrupting something.

[noamnety]

3. thoughts on white people scolding black people for being disruptive

"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action."

[EndElectoral]

7. Thanks for this quote. Quite perceptive.

[Lucinda]

4. +1 n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Are you and gang member? A drug dealer? If not, the phrase was not directed at you

[heaven05]

6. BS

[Cheese Sandwich]

13. Trying to re-write history. Super-predators was used to dehumanize black youth.

[yourpaljoey]

8. Trump anti-Hillary commercial #3733

Hillary will drop out at number #15

[KingFlorez]

9. Unless this person actually is committing crime, that statement didn't apply to them

The density of some of these people is stunning.

[Hiraeth]

10. The density of some of these people is stunning ... what people?

[KingFlorez]

11. These people screeching about the super predator comment

It was not applied to all black people and anyone who thinks that it was is either dense or willfully ignorant.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

12. Unlike everyone else, when the Clintons use dog whistle expressions

that evidence that they know how to speak to black people.