Posted on 06/23/2015 8:29:31 PM PDT by drewh
As lawmakers across the South spoke out against the Confederate battle flag and the nation’s largest retailers pulled items with its image from their shelves, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called the flag “a symbol of our nation’s racist past.”
Speaking at an African-American church just outside Ferguson, Mo., an impoverished black community where protests against a mostly white police force erupted in violence last summer, Mrs. Clinton made a forceful plea to remove the Confederate flag wherever it flew. And she encouraged other retailers to follow Amazon, Walmart, eBay and Sears in discontinuing sales of items that display the flag.
“It shouldn’t fly there. It shouldn’t fly anywhere,” Mrs. Clinton said of South Carolina, where a white gunman killed nine African-Americans last Wednesday during a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
Several retailers have decided they will no longer sell such merchandise because of the church killings in Charleston, S.C. “That night, word of the killings struck like a blow to the soul,” she said. “How do we make sense of such an evil act — an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God?”
Mrs. Clinton’s emphasis on race has been largely motivated by current events, with her campaign unfolding against the backdrop of riots in Baltimore this spring after the death of a black man who had been in police custody and, more immediately, the slaughter in Charleston.
Mrs. Clinton’s approach also distinguishes her from her potential Republican rivals who have mostly only dipped a cautious toe into issues of racism. Candid talks like the one in Florissant could help Mrs. Clinton shore up support among the Democratic Party’s base who overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama during her failed 2008 presidential campaign.
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Except on her hubby’s election stuff.
Let something fly up her ....
She has a point, it was the symbol of the democrat party.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not available for comment.
“Felony” Clinton has spoken.
They don’t have ANY issues AT ALL, that’s why they’re fixating on this stuff:
1. Guy thinks he’s a girl - major crisis they must solve
2. white lady thinks she’s black - ditto
3. mass shootings caused by flags - ditto
They cook this stuff up so they can again cast themselves as idealists lambasting some huge injustice.
All the other injusticies are things THE HAVE *CAUSED*.
Every the battling outsiders, uh-huh.
“That night, word of the killings struck like a blow to the soul,” she said. “How do we make sense of such an evil act — an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God?”
I wonder who wrote those two sentences for her ?
In less than one news cycle, the Left has already claimed victory in the culture war.
The supposed opposition barely offers any resistance in the name of the 1st Amendment.
Is Bammy from southern Kenya?
Begala: Hillary ‘Absolutely’ Has to Answer for Confederate Flag in Arkansas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3303322/posts
Paranoid Drunk Rants About Conspiracies and Wheels Within Wheels (Guess who?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3302463/posts
Flashback: As Governor, Bill Clinton Honored Confederacy On Arkansas Flag
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3302448/posts
I cannot imagine such a horrible thing.
One of her worshipers.
Yep. I suspect any ‘House of God’ would be struck by lightning if she were to enter!
LOL!
I can’t even wrap my head around that flag’s “concept”.
What where they thinking?
:D
Democrats need to be held accountable for their racist history. Will Clinton denounce Planned Parenthood racist history...
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