Hillary
Clinton Denounces White Privilege, Calls for Taking Guns From ‘Those Whose
Hearts Are Filled With Hate’
by
Katie McHugh 20 Jun 2015
In
an emotional speech that heaped scorn and blame on America for failing to pass
gun control measures while it supposedly perpetuates racism, Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said
white Americans need to “question our own assumptions and privilege.”
“We
still allow guns to fall into the hands of people whose hearts are filled with
hate. You can’t watch massacre after massacre and not come to the conclusion
that President Obama has said, ‘We must tackle this challenge with urgency and
conviction,’” she said to applause at
the 83rd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco.
Clinton
then outlined the steps she’d want to see.
It
makes no sense that bipartisan legislation to require universal background
checks fail in Congress despite overwhelming public support. It makes no sense
that we couldn’t come together to keep guns out of the hands of domestic
abusers, or people suffering from mental illnesses. Even people on the
terrorist watch list. That doesn’t make sense, and it is a rebuke to this
nation we love and care about.
Questions
of how, exactly, the U.S. government might go about restricting gun ownership
from people who “hate” aside, as Breitbart News has repeatedly pointed out,
background checks are ignored by the same criminals who don’t pack up their
weapons and go home when they see a “gun-free zone” sign:
Elliot
Rodger (Santa Barbara gunman), Ivan Lopez (2014 Fort Hood gunman), Darion
Marcus Aquilar (Maryland mall gunman), Karl Halverson Pierson (Araphahoe High
School gunman), Paul Ciancia (LAX gunman), Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard gunman),
James Holmes (Aurora theater gunman), and Jared Loughner (Tucson gunman), among
many others, all went through background checks to acquire their firearms.
Clinton
wasn’t finished. “I know and you know there is a deeper challenge we face,” she
said, praising diversity as America’s highest virtue, rather than liberty. “And
yet, bodies are once again being carried out of a black church. Once again,
racist rhetoric has metastasized into racist violence.”
Clinton
is clearly referring to Dylann Storm Roof, the drug-addled killer who
massacred nine
blacks who invited him into their Bible study out of Christian charity.
But Roof’s motives are far from certain.
The
accused shooter “never said anything racist,” according to his black
friend, Christon Scriven.
Roof
did “what he said he was going to do,” said Scriven, adding strangely, “I don’t
feel no different today about him today than I feel before he did this,
though. Like I said, who’s to say Dylann was in his right mind?
“Everyone
is making him out to be racist, but here I am in front of you today as a black
man, and telling you, I don’t feel no different today than when I looked at him
last week, because he never said anything racist to me, never treated me any
different than he treated Justin [a white friend],” Scriven continued.
With
an almost clinical detachment, Scriven told the BBC that “That church wasn’t
his primary target at all. That’s why my heart goes out to those nine families,
because you guys weren’t the targets! He wanted to shoot that school up, the
UCA. University of Charleston. It’s three miles up the street from that church…
He had no intentions on harming those people in that church.”
Strom
told Scriven a week before the attack he planned to carry out a mass shooting.
“He was like, he’s ‘gonna shoot the school up,’ and I was like, ‘What?’ And he
just stopped talking about it. He never said anything else about it. He was
just like, ‘They all got seven days to live.'”
Roof
is, by all accounts, a mentally-unbalanced man taking psychotropic drugs,
who wrote a neo-Nazi, anti-American screed.
He clearly surrounded himself with horrifically irresponsible friends who
didn’t bat an eye when he told them he planned to shoot up a school. There are
many problems here, but “assumptions and privilege” aren’t among them.
Clinton
soldiered on. “Now it’s tempting — it is tempting to dismiss a tragedy
like this as an isolated incident,” she said. She’ll resist any such
temptation:
To
believe that in today’s America bigotry is largely behind us. That
institutionalized racism no longer exists. But despite our best efforts, and
our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from
finished. I know that this is a difficult topic to talk about. I know that
so many of us hoped that by electing our first black president, we thought that
we had turned the page on this chapter in history. I know there are truths we
don’t like to say out loud, or discuss with our children.
It’s
odd that as Clinton lectures about the enduring threat of racism, she has to
pat herself on the back is if she’s bravely treading new ground. Meanwhile,
“racism” is blamed for almost everything in the U.S. today. Consider the
warnings against “white privilege” being
burned into elementary school children’s brains.
“More
than half a century after Dr. King marched, after Rosa Parks sat, after Rep.
John Lewis (D-GA) 24% bled, after the Civil Rights Act, and the
Voting Rights Act, and so much else, how can any of these things be true? But
they are,” Clinton went on. “And our problem is not all kooks and
Klansman.”
Voters
who disagree with the Democratic party’s platform are only a few
Confederate flag sightings away from donning a hood and burning some crosses,
apparently. Is this why the U.S. is “essentially a nation of cowards” when
it comes to discussing race, as former Attorney General Eric Holder famously said?
Clinton
then moves from the evils of racism to the threat of micro-aggressions.
It’s
also the cruel joke that goes unchallenged. It’s the offhand comment about not
wanting ‘those people’ in the neighborhood. But let’s be honest. For a lot of
well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a
hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. And news reports about poverty and crime
and discrimination evoke sympathy, even empathy, but too rarely do they spur us
to action or prompt us to question our own assumptions and privilege. We can’t
hide from any of these hard truths about race and justice in America. We have
to name them, and own them, and then change them.
Here,
Clinton sounds like a social justice warrior, telling America that one
micro-aggression can undo all of the effort and trillions of dollars
America has spent to bridge racial gaps and heal old wounds. She seems to
think she could save the country by reminding us to check our privilege.
And our Second Amendment rights.
Hillary
Clinton
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and was a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Note:
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the American Constitution Society.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, the co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Robin Hood Foundation.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, and the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Manny Diaz is a
director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Martin
O'Malley was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, the Baltimore
(MD) mayor, and is the Maryland
state government governor.
Ex-Mayor Martin O'Malley Heckled During Baltimore Riot
Tour (Past Research on the Homeland Security Advisory Council)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Thomas M. Menino
was a co-chair for Mayors Against
Illegal Guns, an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, and the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Michael A. Nutter
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Marc Morial is an advisory
board member for Everytown for Gun
Safety, the president & CEO for the National Urban League, and was the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. was the president of the National Urban League, is a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, was a director at the Joyce
Foundation, and Mayor Richard M.
Daley’s deputy chief of staff.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Bloomberg
Philanthropies, Mayors Against
Illegal Guns, and the Brady Center
to Prevent Gun Violence.
Bloomberg
Philanthropies is an umbrella organization for the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Richard M. Daley
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, was the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Valerie B. Jarrett was his deputy
chief of staff, and Michelle Obama
was his staffer, and the president of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors.
Eigen's
Political & Historical Quotations
Daley,
Richard M. (Quotation Number: 71346 )
If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would
own hand guns.
Paul Helmke was
the president of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors, and the president of the Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence was named for James Scott Brady.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is a trustee at the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, and Mario M.
Cuomo’s daughter.
Mario M. Cuomo was
Maria Cuomo Cole’s father, and a board
of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
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