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

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Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003 3:17 p.m. EDT

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

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

Contending that conservatives wanted to roll back the civil rights movement, Sen. Clinton told 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 1950s 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 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 1950s 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]

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[socal_parrot]

there has been a commitment to trying to go back to some golden age.

Yeah..like before your fat arse hit the scene.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Those damn conservatives trying to rollback the Civil Rights Movement... BTW, what is the status of that segregation bill? You know, the one that mandates the return to segregated schools and buses and churches and....

[bc2]

how did the New Deal save capitalism?

I am currently studying economics and as far as I can tell, capitalism saves itself and everyone else that it touches. What destroys capitalism is regulation and disregard for property rights and contract.

Am I correct or do I need to keep reading?

[Always Right]

Hillary could go on national TV and call blacks, F-ing n-word, and she'd be given a complete pass. It is not about prejudice.

[Search4Truth]

And this is the woman that so many think is going to run for President. Dick Morris is right, Hitlery does best when she keeps her pie hole closed. Not exactly a Presidential attribute.

[laweeks]

Golly, if I remember right (from when I grew up in a white suburb), the Civil Rights Act was passed over the racist Democratic Party's DEAD BODY. Does she ever shut her mouth?

[socal_parrot]

I think your pretty much got it.

[Search4Truth]

"I am currently studying economics and as far as I can tell, capitalism saves itself and everyone else that it touches. What destroys capitalism is regulation and disregard for property rights and contract.

Am I correct or do I need to keep reading?"

You go to the head of the class, and no, you do not need to read the article any further.

[veronica]

There has been a commitment to trying to go back to some golden age. Yeah..like before your fat arse hit the scene.

Ha! Isn't that the truth...

[ElkGroveDan]

Is it back before the Clinton Era when we were taught that the American melting pot is actually an endless conflict of man against woman, black against white, rich against poor, east against west, north against south, children against parents, employers against employees.

Is it back before the society of endless squabbling factions that she and her husband envisioned and helped create?

[ThinkDifferent]

Am I correct or do I need to keep reading?

You're correct: Great Myths of the Great Depression.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Hillary - The untouchable.

No media person can tell the truth about her. (and live)

No opponet can survive her. (don't get on a plane, Dean)

Her living history is constantly being revised.

It is really amazing how may people think she is a god.

She can do no wrong in the eyes of the Dems and puppy-dog press.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Hillary: I'm Grateful I Grew up in 'White Suburbs' Gosh wait until the press gets hold of this one she's going to have to resign! ....oh dammit I forgot she's got a prejudice pass.

[lilylangtree]

She should be hounded out of office similar to what she and her cohorts tried on Trent Lott. Where's the hue and cry?

[socal_parrot]

If you listen closely...all you can hear is crickets.

[Paul Atreides]

This coming from a woman STILL living in the "white suburbs."

[ILuvW]

"This coming from a woman STILL living in the "white suburbs."

Touche!

[Redbob]

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

Woohoo! THERE's a unique historical theory!

Who would the "historian" be that thinks the New Deal "saved capitalism"?
Karl Marx?

[KarlInOhio]

Save for later reading

[RightWhale]

what is that golden age that they want to go back to

It isn't the Republicans trying to create Utopia on earth. It is exactly the impractical liberal Left, Hillary's own supporters, who dream of the Golden Age, maybe even Hesiod's rustic Golden Age. If you like shortages, disease, violence, and short, miserable, uncertain lives, the Golden Age is for you. Conservatives, being practical, don't believe in Utopias, and have seen too many come and go with not much to show. In fact, they have watched them all come and go.