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Russell Simmons Demands an Apology From Bill Clinton Over Black Lives Matter Comments
The Wrap ^ | April 7, 2016 | Debbie Emery

Posted on 04/09/2016 12:11:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

“The small drug users who were diseased and locked away deserve it? Bill Clinton u owe the black community and black lives matter an apology,” Def Jam Recordings co-founder says

Russell Simmons was not impressed with Bill Clinton’s comments about the Black Lives Matter movement — and let the former president know it.

“The small drug users who were diseased and locked away deserve it? Bill Clinton u owe the black community and black lives matter an apology,” the Def Jam Recordings co-founder and Phat Farm founder tweeted Thursday night.

Simmons also linked out to a report on NPR detailing the former president’s heated exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters earlier in the day at a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Philadelphia, where he was forced to defend his 1994 crime bill and his wife’s past statements regarding race.

Clinton claimed the bill earned bipartisan support, diversified the police force, and lowered the country’s crime rate, thus benefitting African-Americans, according to NPR.

He then turned to a protester’s sign that read “black youth are not super predators,” telling the person, who had repeatedly interrupted him: “I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the street to murder other African-American children.

“Maybe you thought they were good citizens … You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter. Tell the truth. You are defending the people who cause young people to go out and take guns.”

“I talked to a lot of African-American groups,” Clinton continued. “They thought black lives matter. They said take this bill, because our kids are being shot in the street by gangs. We have 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals.”

Clinton also addressed claims by the protesters that the 1996 welfare reform bill increased poverty among African-Americans.

“They say the welfare reform bill increased poverty. Then why did we have the largest drop in African American poverty in history when I was president?” he asked.

As for his own wife and the upcoming presidential election: “This election is about the future. They’re trying to blame her for something she didn’t do,” he said.

Simmons has long been an outspoken supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. In December 2014, he joined thousands of protesters in the “Millions March NYC” event to speak out against police brutality.

Just days before the Oscars last February, the business mogul’s emerging video programming brand All Def Digital hosted the first-ever All Def Movie Awards, with movies such as “Beasts of No Nation,” “Chi-Raq,” “Concussion,” “Creed,” “Dope” and “Straight Outta Compton” nominated for awards.

See Simmons’ tweet below.

(TWEET-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Government; Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; billclinton; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blacks; clinton; election2016; gangsta; gangstas; hiphop; hitlery; newyork; pennsylvania; philadelphia; reparations; russellsimmons; whiteprivilege; x42
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

Actually, Bill Clinton (aka “Slick”) was almost exactly right for calling out the BLM maniacal fools on their “hate cops, ignore black-on-black violence” dialogue.

But you are right, Slick has lost a lot of his critical thinking.


21 posted on 04/09/2016 4:28:23 AM PDT by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hahahahahaha! (Holding sides, catching breath.) Hahahahahahaha!


22 posted on 04/09/2016 4:41:45 AM PDT by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: Junk Silver
In his opus, "Tragedy and Hope," Dr. Carroll Quigley deliberately reveals one of the worlds' best kept secrets: the existence of a global leviathan of political and economic power poised to seize control of the planet.

According to Quigley, right from the start the global power complex controlled Marxist-Communist and German Socialist groups (and no doubt destructive groups like Black Lives Matter):

"...the power that...Left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power but...the power of the international financial coterie." (p. 954, Tragedy and Hope)

Why did Quigley expose the existence of the global financial coterie? Because he says, it is now too late for the little people to turn the tide. He urges them to not fight the noose which is already around their necks, for they will only hang themselves:

"On the other hand, those who go along with the immense pressure which is beginning to be felt by all humanity will eventually find themselves in a man-made millennium of peace and prosperity." (The Naked Capitalist, Skousen, pp. 4-6)

'Elite' transnational progressive Robert Muller (1923 – 2010), former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, former Chancellor of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica and father of Core Curriculum speaks of the fate that will befall the politically incorrect:

"...all those who hold contrary beliefs" to politically correct thought favored for the "next phase of evolution" will "disappear." A hellish fate awaits all who resist political and spiritual globalization, "..those who criticize the UN are anti-evolutionary, blind, self-serving people. Their souls will be parked in a special corral of the universe for having been retarding forces, true aberrations in the evolution and ascent of humanity." (False Dawn, Lee Penn, p. 133)

23 posted on 04/09/2016 4:47:15 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: dp0622

He needs to address the homo/lesbo 2/3% in the same fashion


24 posted on 04/09/2016 4:49:02 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Bullish
The black “community” that Bill Clinton is referring to owe America a huge apology and a HELL of a lot of money.

Should be on billboards all across the country.

25 posted on 04/09/2016 5:02:26 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so that others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone out there making book as to, if, when and where Bill Clinton makes his apology to the BLM gangsters?


26 posted on 04/09/2016 5:03:29 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: Tupelo

Bill Clinton’s recent “gaffes” are a fascinating case.

It seems that if you’re a Progressive one of the tell-tale signs of senile dementia is that you start telling the truth.


27 posted on 04/09/2016 5:14:45 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The DNC attack dogs unleashed are predators to everyone to whom they cross. Kinda funny to see Obama’s shock troops out pushing “the agenda”. Guess Liberals cannot reason with their own kind; of course any conservative could have told a liberal that if only they were capable of listening.


28 posted on 04/09/2016 5:21:29 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

keep up the great work Simmons!

29 posted on 04/09/2016 5:31:11 AM PDT by DrJeff
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Then why did we have the largest drop in African American poverty in history when I was president?”

I believe Black Lies Matter is driven by the fact that their situation on the whole has only declined since BJ Clinton’s tenure, when affirmative action on steroids infected the workplace. Now we have another “preferred minority” (Hispanics) displacing them, and many blacks are simply unemployable in any capacity. If they couldn’t fix it with a mulatto president who promised them the world, it can’t be fixed.


30 posted on 04/09/2016 5:45:21 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He just might get it too.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/bill-regrets-slapping-down-black-lives-matter-activists/


31 posted on 04/09/2016 6:05:02 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Crucial

Black culture today is THUG CULTURE...Slick Willy was correct.


32 posted on 04/09/2016 6:11:33 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In a rare instance of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s statements about BLM hypocrisy have been labeled as a “major gaffe” in the Hillary campaign. When liberals accidentally tell the truth, it always leads to an apology and/or gaffe-shaming.


33 posted on 04/09/2016 6:19:37 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: ronnie raygun

BLM culture is or par with ISIS culture.

Civilization cannot coexist with either.


34 posted on 04/09/2016 9:12:29 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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