Hillary: I'm Grateful I Grew up in 'White Suburbs'

NewsMax.com ^ | 8/03/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she was "very grateful" to have to grown up in "the 1950's white suburbs."

Contending that conservatives wanted to roll back the civil rights movement, Sen. Clinton told the American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C. that she was trying to figure out, "What is that golden age that they want to go back to?"

Then, in a remark reminiscent of Sen. Trent Lott's praise last year for the segregationist presidential campaign of the late Strom Thurmond, the former first lady asked if conservatives meant to take the country "back to the 1950's white suburbs for family life, which I grew up in and write about in my book - and am very grateful for."

Despite expressing gratitude for the all-white surroundings of her Park Ridge, Chicago youth, Sen. Clinton told the ACS that her hometown "didn't exactly describe the universal experience in America."

She said it was a time "before Brown v Board, when people were told that in this country we should to try to integrate our schools."

Though Sen. Clinton's comments were televised on C-Span, her praise for the "white suburbs" of her youth has so far gone unreported by the mainstream press.

The former first lady's full remarks on the topic went like this:

"There are just a lot of things that happened in the 20th Century that some people apparently just couldn't get over. So starting in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s - and with greater acceleration and commitment in the 70s until the current time - there has been a commitment to trying to go back to some golden age.

"Walter Dellinger and I were talking about a panel that will be held tomorrow to try to figure out, exactly what was that golden age that they want to go back to?

"You know, is it back to the 1950's white suburbs for family life, which I grew up in and write about in my book - and am very grateful for, but didn't exactly describe the universal experience in America?

"Is it back before Brown v Board, when people were told in this country we should try to integrate our schools and provide equal opportunity in fact, not just in theory?

"Is back before the New Deal, and many of the changes that actually saved capitalism in the eyes of many historians?

"Is it back to before the Progressive era, when children were told that they could no longer work in factories and immigrants were being given the rights and tools to assume a roll in American society?

"Is it back to crony capitalism and the robber baron area [sic]. I don't know. I think it's a combination of all of that." [End of Excerpt]

[Brad’s Gramma]

And then she growed up and married the first black President.

Wow. What a gal.

[Gunslingr3]

"Is back before the New Deal, and many of the changes that actually saved capitalism in the eyes of many historians?

The fascist FDR 'saved' capitalism, that's cute...

[GraniteStateConservative]

I'm grateful I'm white and so is Hillary and so are plenty of white people. It's like Chris Rock said: "There ain't a white person in here who would trade places with me. Hell, even the white bus boy with one arm and a peg leg wouldn't trade places with me, AND I'M RICH!!"

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...WHY did HILLARY RODHAM -&- BILL CLINTON refuse 3 No-Strings offers to extradite our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN during the 1990's....

...from the Sudan to the custody of a U.S. Jail and Trial that would have prevented the Attacks on us on September 11, 2001..?

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[kattracks]

No hillary!. Its the time when God wasn't considered "the enemy", a view foisted on this country by the likes of you. It was the time when people were expected to accept responsibility for their actions. It was a time when decency wasn't frowned upon. It was a time when families meant something. And most especially, it was the time when you and your ilk weren't defended by the media, and wouldn't have been able to get elected for the job as dogcatcher.

[TRY ONE]

"Hillary said that she was "very grateful" to have to grown up in "the 1950's white suburbs and to have gone on to an all girlie college where she could experiment with her sexuality......."

[swheats]

There's never a time Hillary has a black person around her unless it's some made-for-tv photo op. These folks are so fake.

[soozla]

Let's see if the mainstream media take this phrase over the top, as in Bush's 16 words in the SOTU speech or Trent Lott's re: Strom Thurmond..........and beats the living hell out of it.......Not a snowball's chance, I say!

[swheats]

the first black President

Oh Gramma plz don't go there. That is just one more stereotype spoken by an ignorant person who wore her kneepads too tight.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

When the schools were integrated in my hometown, the black kids lost their beautiful neighborhood school (which happened to be the ONLY public school that was air conditioned at the time! - a BIG deal in a very hot Texas town), they lost their football team, their cheerleaders, their student council, their class beauties and class favorites - they were divided up and bussed all over town.......

It seemed very unfair to me, and was devastating to them - I still don't think it was a good thing to do - not because I didn't want black kids in my school - but it seemed like a horrible idea to tear them away from their neighborhoods and friends and school pride and tradition.........

Yet Hillary keeps shoving how great it all was down our throats - sure, for some people it might have been a better opportunity - for the kids in my town it was horrible......

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm sorry....I forgot the sarcasm OFF tag.

I can't stand either of them...trust me.

[swheats]

I know. And I know you wouldn't say it out of truth to hurt anyone.

It just burns me every time I see this skank of a couple compared to blacks, not the best of black America, but the worst in human nature.

[wingman1]

"No hillary!. Its the time when God wasn't considered "the enemy", a view foisted on this country by the likes of you. It was the time when people were expected to accept responsibility for their actions. It was a time when decency wasn't frowned upon. It was a time when families meant something. And most especially, it was the time when you and your ilk weren't defended by the media, and wouldn't have been able to get elected for the job as dogcatcher."

Yours is a very good point of view and one that Hillary is obviously unaware.

[Cobra64]

...and to have gone on to an all girlie college where she could experiment with her sexuality......."

Now you're splittin' hairs.

[Cobra64]

Yup. And she STILL got elected after she refered to "the f*cking Jews" in one of her statements.

[BradyLS]

I caught that, too. Only the Left thinks that they "saved" "Capitalism."

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"I'm grateful I'm white and so is Hillary and so are plenty of white people. It's like Chris Rock said: "There ain't a white person in here who would trade places with me. Hell, even the white bus boy with one arm and a peg leg wouldn't trade places with me, AND I'M RICH!!"

True, no way, no how, no matter what.

[mhking]

Hillary Clinton said Friday that she was "very grateful" to have to grown up in "the 1950's white suburbs."

Heh. Figures. Her 1950's Democratic values are coming out...

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[BradyLS]

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