Posted on 10/09/2015 2:35:34 PM PDT by PROCON
Hillary Clinton reportedly told leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday she will get rid of private prisons.
The meeting with Black Lives Matter comes a day after Clinton was heckled by a protester at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala over her ties to the private prison lobby.
The former first lady spoke with activists for 90 minutes in Washington, D.C., and discussed the policies she will promote in her yet-to-be-released racial justice platform.
Activist Deray McKesson, who was in the meeting, said on MSNBC’s “Live with Thomas Roberts” that Clinton "did come out and say she wants to end private prisons.” He added, “She hasn’t released a platform yet about racial justice or criminal equity or criminal justice, so I’m hopeful that this conversation will inform that platform."
McKesson called the meeting an “opportunity for growth” for Clinton, saying she still needs to learn how to use more transparent language when talking about race.
“We said this to her really candidly, about tightening up the language she uses to talk about people of color,” he said. “I’ve said it before, is that sometimes her language is coded, and you don’t really know if she’s talking about black people or who she’s talking about, and we saw that evident in this meeting, so I think there’s a real opportunity for growth there.”
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Hillary! pandering to the #blacklivesmatter crowd.
Trying to win that all important black thug vote.
Did she back slavery reparations, banning police from the ghettos and a guaranteed income for “people of color” or is that in her next speech?
Interesting sub plot here as she specifically takes on the Prisons for Profit like the one built in Northern Illinois they were shopping as the new home for Guantanamo “guests”
Then a day or so ago there was an article about Di Fi I think shopping to get them placed here...
This is unraveling so fast it is breathtaking...
The phones are burnin up now round the world, it ain’t just us folks...
corrals with machine gun turrets are so much easier and cheaper
McKesson - “she still needs to learn how to use more transparent language when talking about race.”
If you can’t see through her Bullsh!t now, there’s just no hope for ya.....
...and how do you “Inform a platform”...????
Private eMail servers... not so much...
I’m thinking she probably wants to cut down on the potential prisons she might be serving time in.
Like she could do a damned thing about private prisons, at least ones that are being used to house state-convicted criminals. I don’t know that the Feds have outsourced any of their prison “needs.”
That’s a state issue isn’t it?
She wants the Feds to takeover all prisons?
Of course she does, just following the 0bama doctrine.
Hell, the Department of "Just-Us" has already taken over the police departments in Ferguson and Baltimore.
Drip, drip
I’m sure Hillary is so pleased a BLM stooge comments on her “room to grow”.
I have to go to the eye doctor. I honestly thought the headline read:
“Hillary tells Black Lives Matter she’ll end up in a private prison”
ROFLOL, now that’s funny...maybe it’s a premonition of events yet to come.
I would end private prisons too.
but until then, she'll keep on taking their $$$$$
As would I. I do not see the benefit of them at all, and if you can run them at a profit, that means they can be run at no profit for less.
Says the person who belongs in prison.
OPS...I had to re-read that statement....OK, I’m fine now...but still ROFLMAO....
I am concerned that “for profit” prisons increase the corruption index.
Not only that, but the people behind them have contracts that the government must supply them with a certain amount of people.
Why any private citizen should get rich off putting people in prison is beyond me.
Mandatory sentencing laws turn our courts into the equivalent of a McDonald’s drive through.
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