THE BLACK COMMUNITY’S BLIND LOYALTY TO THE CLINTONS REFLECTS THE ENDURING IMPACT OF OUR SLAVE MENTALITY

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

THE BLACK COMMUNITY’S BLIND LOYALTY TO THE CLINTONS REFLECTS THE ENDURING IMPACT OF OUR SLAVE MENTALITY

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FROM THE EYES OF BABES
"I'm not feelin' this lady."

Hillary Clinton will never admit it, but considering she has the most powerful and well-oiled political machine in America, and Bernie Sanders is only being sustained by a passionate group of grassroots voters, his virtual tie in the Iowa Caucus and his win over her by a historic margin in New Hampshire represents a humiliating defeat.  But Hillary’s not worried about that, because she intends to more than make up the difference in Nevada, South Carolina, and the various other upcoming states where there’s a large Black population . . .  and therein lies our story.
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Considering what both Bill, and Hillary, have done to Black people over the years, the mere fact that Hillary is so confident that she has Black people in her pocket should be an embarrassment to the entire Black community, because regardless to how sophisticated Black people try to strut around acting, or how educated or militant we talk, the Black support for Hillary Clinton is a glaring reflection of the powerful impact of an enduring slave mentality. If you ask the average Black person to tell you just one thing the Clintons have done for Black people, they wouldn’t be able to do it, and there’s a good reason for that - because the Clintons haven’t done anything for Black people.  The fact is, they've much more too us than for us.
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BERNIE SANDERS FIGHTING FOR BLACK PEOPLE

IN 1963

Bill Clinton secured the everlasting loyalty of many Black people by simply swaggering onto the Arsenio Hall Show in dark glasses and trying to play the saxophone - that was it. That's all he ever did for the Black community, but that seems to have been enough for many Black people.  Just having a White man acknowledge our existence and pat us on the head will cause many of us to love him forever - even if he does beat us every now and then (“for our own good," of course). 
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And the Clintons have been doing just that every since they’ve been in the public eye - beating us mercilessly. They talk like liberals, and act like liberals, but they always seem to leave behind conservative policies that are detrimental to both Black people, and America as a whole - The 1994 Crime Bill, which led to the mass incarceration of Black people; NAFTA, which rewarded corporations for sending American jobs out of the country; the Repeal of Glass-Steagall, which led directly to the 2008 Great Recession; The Welfare Reform Act, which only served to devastate many poor Black families; and finally, Hillary joined the neocons in voting for the senseless war in Iraq, which led to the death of a million Iraqis and the death or maiming of thousands of American troops.
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So the Clintons have done more to promote the Republican agenda than most legitimate Republicans have ever done - and only with a smile, a swagger, a mouth full of pimp-talk, dark glasses and a saxophone. So wake up, America. Bill Clinton is the Iceberg Slim of American politics. His personal life even reflects that. That's why they call him "Slick Willie."

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BILL CLINTON'S CRIME BILL

BARRY GOLDWATER ALSO VOWED TO REPEAL

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IF ELECTED

Bill Clinton's omnibus crime bill is a prime example of the beating that Black people have been taking from the Clintons.  Every since the Nixon administration the word "crime" has been a 'dog whistle' term to mean "Black people."  In spite of all of the crimes that are being committed by Wall Street executives, White criminals, and the White establishment itself, whenever a politician mentions either "crime" or "welfare," they're dog-whistling to the rest of America that they're referring to Black people. That's why one of the worst things that can be said about a White politician is that "He's soft on crime," because what that actually means is that he's soft on Black people. So Bill Clinton made absolutely sure that he'd never be accused of such a thing by signing into law HR 3355, The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

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In spite of the fact that the Black community embraced Clinton so passionately that they started calling him "The first Black President," shortly after assuming office he signed "the largest crime bill in the history of the United States, consisting of 356 pages providing for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons and $6.1 billion in funding for prevention programs which were designed with significant input from experienced police officers.^"  The bill also allocated $4 billion to all states that would adhere to it's provision to make violent criminals serve 85% of their sentences before being considered for parole, but some states mandated that all prisoners be required to meet that standard.
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Ben Collins reported in The Daily Beast that Jeremy Travis, former director of the National Institute of Justice (the research arm of the Department of Justice), said that “The pieces of the bill that Joe Biden is most closely identified with have generally been very well accepted. The Violence Against Women Act [also included in the bill] has been acknowledged by everybody as a tremendous influence . . . The parts of the bill that put more people in prison in our country—that’s a Republican part of the bill. The part that I’m on record being critical of is funding states to increase the length of sentences.”  Travis went on to say, “Mandatory prison sentences intensified enforcement of drug laws, and long sentences contributed not only to overall high rates of incarceration, but also especially to extraordinary rates of incarceration in black and Latino communities.”
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THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

In Bill Clinton's statement on crime during his 1994 State Of The Union Address he specifically targeted the Black and Hispanic communities by dog-whistling
Dixie. He said the following:
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"Many years ago, when I started out in public life, I was the attorney general of my State. I served as a Governor for a dozen years. I know what it's like to sign laws increasing penalties, to build more prison cells, to carry out the death penalty. I understand this issue. And it is not a simple thing. First, we must recognize that most violent crimes are committed by a small percentage of criminals who too often break the laws even when they are on parole. Now those who commit crimes should be punished. And those who commit repeated violent crimes should be told, "When you commit a third violent crime, you will be put away, and put away for good; three strikes and you are out . . .
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"I think you know that to really solve this [crime] problem, we'll all have to put our heads together, leave our ideological armor aside, and find some new ideas to do even more. And let's be honest, we all know something else too: Our problems go way beyond the reach of Government. They're rooted in the loss of values, in the disappearance of work, and the breakdown of our families and our communities."
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Here Clinton is specifically referring to, or 'dog-whistling,' about the Black and Hispanic community. One must ask, what about white-collar crime, is that the result of "the disappearance of work, and the breakdown of our families and our communities" as well? No it's not. Then who is he talking about? Black people, of course, but instead of simply saying it, he's dog-whistling it. And thereafter, Clinton teamed up with the Republican Party to produce the biggest, most abusive, and lopsided crime bill in this nation's history, and created yet another kind of crime - but the kind of crime they approved of - the creation of the private prison industry, Black concentration camps, and the mass incarceration of Black people.
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But now that Hillary is trying to get them back into the White House, here comes Bill again, going to the NAACP apologizing, and saying he made a mistake. But where was that apology over the last 16 years before Hillary decided to run for president?  And if he was so sorry about it, why was the Prison Industrial Complex one of Hillary's biggest donors before she distanced herself from them after declaring her candidacy?  But nevertheless, when Bill came, hat-in-hand, asking for forgiveness, here comes John Lewis, Gregory Meeks, and the Congressional Black Caucus running to the Clintons' side like Pavlov's dog after hearing the dinner bell. It's not only embarrassing, but disgusting. It's reminiscent of a scene right out of Django.
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BILL CLINTON APOLOGIZES TO NAACP FOR CAUSING MASS INCARCINRATION

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"I signed a [crime] bill that made the problem worse. And I want to admit it," Clinton said at the 106th NAACP National Convention, which concluded Wednesday in Philadelphia. "In that bill, there were longer sentences, and most of these people are in prison under state law, but the federal law set a trend. And that was overdone; we were wrong about that."

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THE MENA, ARKANSAS CONNECTION

So the irony of the Clinton crime bill, their connection to the private prison industry, and the mass incarceration of Black people for drug violations is Bill's own connection with the grossly illegal operation that flooded the Black community with crack cocaine in the first place. So he was involved in creating a problem, made the Black community pay for it, and then benefited from our misery. 

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A CASH COW FROM A LOVING HUSBAND,
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY

Thus, when dealing with either Bill, or Hillary Clinton, dog whistling is a concept that the voting public would do well to become very familiar with, because it's the most formidable weapon in the Clinton political arsenal, and they both use it prolifically - they have to in order to play both ends against the middle. It allows them to say one thing to us, while sending an altogether different message to their corporate cronies at one and the same time.

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It has been reported that the Clinton's net worth is well over $100 million (some report over $200 million). They also control the $2 billion Clinton Foundation, so they're comfortably entrenched in the very corporate culture that has the American people virtually enslaved. Even their daughter, Chelsea, is married to Marc Mezvinsky, an American investment banker, co-founder of hedge fund Eaglevale Partners, and was formerly an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. So the Clintons and Wall Street are, literally, in-laws. 

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So Black people, don't allow yourselves to be played - for a second time.  These people don't care nothing about you; they just need your vote, to finish enslaving America.

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DID HILLARY CLINTON TRY TO DOG-WHISTLE BARACK OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION DURING THE 2008 PRIMARIES?

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Eric L. Wattree
http://wattree.blogspot.com/
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)

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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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