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Hillary Clinton Used Black Prison Labor While First Lady of Arkansas
Newsweek ^ | June 7, 2017 | Mirren Gidda

Posted on 06/07/2017 10:50:17 AM PDT by grundle

Full title: Twitter Erupts Over News That Hillary Clinton Used Black Prison Labor While First Lady of Arkansas

Twitter users have reacted with surprise and fury over excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book It Takes A Village. On June 6, Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter who supports Clinton's Democratic opponent Sen. 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 1981 and 1983 to 1992.

“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. 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.”

Despite 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.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: hillaryarkansas; hillaryclinton; racism; slavery
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1 posted on 06/07/2017 10:50:17 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

That’s the sound of the men working on the chain gang.


2 posted on 06/07/2017 10:51:41 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: grundle

Did she throw ashtrays at them?


3 posted on 06/07/2017 10:53:02 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: rktman

She ain’t no ways tired.


4 posted on 06/07/2017 10:53:10 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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House n*****rs. Just like Bill Maher.


5 posted on 06/07/2017 10:53:19 AM PDT by alloysteel (Don't worry, nothing is going to be OK. Positive assumption of negative outcome.)
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To: grundle

The final knife in the back.

The Rats want her gone.


6 posted on 06/07/2017 10:54:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: grundle

Wipe’n it off, boss. Wipe’n it off.


7 posted on 06/07/2017 10:54:42 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: grundle

Now?..........where was this during the campaign?.......... She may get to see what it’s like on the other side of the whip...........


8 posted on 06/07/2017 10:54:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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To: grundle
“When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,”

Hell, yeah! Goes back to 1619 or so! Somes gets t'be house negroes and work in the Master's House!

(This is all tongue-in-cheek, of course.)
9 posted on 06/07/2017 10:55:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Haven't any of you wondered how Danny Williams was made???

His mom was a whore, Bill would visit quite often, well known to the cook, gardener and others that worked there who she was and when he would visit her...

I thought everyone knew about this...

10 posted on 06/07/2017 10:56:05 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: grundle

People are just getting around to reading her 1996 book? OK, I can see that...


11 posted on 06/07/2017 10:56:06 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: grundle
Negro Prison Blues and Songs
12 posted on 06/07/2017 10:56:22 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: grundle
Convicted murderers and unconvicted murderers sharing the same mansion.

Curious.

13 posted on 06/07/2017 10:56:44 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: grundle

A bit surprised this article found its way into News-weak. Where was it in ‘07-08 or ‘15-16, though?


14 posted on 06/07/2017 10:59:16 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: grundle

Is this another thread circling back to that Ariana Grande “Side To Side” song?


15 posted on 06/07/2017 11:00:04 AM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: grundle

nobody knows the trouble i’ve seen....


16 posted on 06/07/2017 11:00:36 AM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: Puppage

Hope Hillary don’t get rabbit in the blood.


17 posted on 06/07/2017 11:02:30 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: mellow velo

Maybe they serviced her. Bill didn’t.


18 posted on 06/07/2017 11:03:23 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: grundle

Bet she had some black females too. Cleanest carpet of any governor mansion in the Yooooooooooooonighted States.


19 posted on 06/07/2017 11:03:52 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: grundle

They toted that barge and lifted that bale for Hillary.


20 posted on 06/07/2017 11:05:15 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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