Bill Clinton has lost his superpower: Why his confrontation with BLM was such a stunning mistake

by: Tristin Manus 8th 

Summary: The BLM activists had shown up to a rally in an African-American neighborhood in Philadelphia to heckle Clinton over the crime bill he signed while president in 1994. The bill has been blamed for many of the problems facing America’s  state today: overcrowded prisons, mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of African-American males, and overly harsh sentencing for relatively minor offenses, among other issues. Clinton repeatedly brought up " black on black crime", which is a propaganda tool of the system to further criminalize and demoralize black people. 

 Analysis: During the whole entire rally , Clinton was defensive and brought up stories that categorized black people. All the BLM protesters were doing was trying to surface the corruptness of the crime bill and the excessive incarceration of black kids/people over petty  crimes compared to white kids on harsher drugs who have support from communities and those same communities demonize black and Hispanic kids for farther less extreme crimes. Instead of getting angry and defensive about the wrongs of the crime bill, Clinton can listen to the people whose lives have been terribly impacted and even destroyed by the reforms of the 1990s.

Link: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/10/bill_clinton_has_lost_his_superpower_why_his_confrontation_with_blm_was_such_a_stunning_mistake/