Informed by moderator Lester Holt that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York state for unfairly targeting black and Latino men during Monday’s presidential debate, Donald Trump offered a spirited defense of the policing practice while also reminding the audience that Hillary Clinton once referred to young black men in gangs as “super-predators.”
“I do want to bring up the fact that you were the one that brought up super predator about young black youth,” Trump said. “And that’s a term that I think was—it’s been horribly met as you know. I think you’ve apologized for it. I think it was a terrible thing to say.”
His remark was sandwiched between comments on keeping people on the no-fly list from having guns and on “taking guns away” from people on the street by using stop-and-frisk.
Clinton said earlier this year that she “shouldn’t have used those words” and “wouldn’t use them today.”
Well, it was a good move as “stop and frisk” is indefensible. And why not go there, Clinton owns it.
Come on, the the Superpredator line was hers. You can’t be denying that. Nevermind, I’m going to bed.
Not denying it, but I am filing that in the same folder as:
–Robert Byrd was in the KKK
–Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist
–Democrats set up the Jim Crow laws
–Lincoln was a Republican
Life is a bowl of cherries. Don’t pick just one.
And she mentioned that we’re all prejudiced, which I also believe is also true. And we have sterotypes and there are actual cultural differences. I think the big difference is how you act on those beliefs and prejudices. Eg. My kids have gone to some of the most integrated schools in my counties that I know a lot of white folks wouldn’t send their kids to if they were the last school on earth. So yes I believe blacks and latinos have cultural differences form me, but I didn’t send my kids to schools with less blacks and latinos because I don’t think of those differences as bad, just different and I wanted my kids to see that.