Normally on Fridays, we like to take it easy, but when Bill Clinton tried to revise Black History regarding the horrific role the Clinton's played in the lives of Blacks people from Harlem to Rwanda, we decided a thorough review of his time in the Oval office was in order to keep the record straight. When confronted with signs reading "CLINTON Crime Bill Destroyed Our Communities.", Slick Willie actually told the Black Lives Matter protesters they were defending people who kill the lives they say matter.
Spending more than 10 minutes defending his now infamous 1994 crime bill in response to BLM hecklers at yesterday's campaign event for his wife in Philadelphia Pa., Bill Clinton was forced to address Hillary's now infamous remarks referring to young Black males as "super predators" who need to be "brought to heel". And boy did he ever. Shaking his finger at the disrupters, Clinton stated, "I don't know how you characterize gang leaders who get 13 year-old kids hooked on crack and send them into the streets to murder African Americans." "Maybe you thought they were good citizens." She (Hillary Clinton) didn't. Okay, that's one way to look at it. Unfortunately, most Black people don't see it that way.
Since calling Bill Clinton a bald-faced liar will yield little more than a "so what else is new" reaction from most, we'll just say this is a complete reversal of his very public mea culpa moment last year when lamenting signing the Violent Crime Control Law Enforcement Act because it contributed to the country's high incarceration rate of Black people for nonviolent crimes. And although he was right to be regretful, considering his policies led to the devastation of Black families en mass, crushed futures and almost destroyed all hope, it's more than a bit disconcerting to find him walking his conscience back, now that Hillary is running for the White House.
While many staunch Clinton supporters would like to forget the past and move on, there are simply too many well documented instances where Black lives didn't mean sh*t to Bill and Hillary Clinton in the United States or anywhere else on this planet for that matter. When reviewing the differences in Bill Clinton's response to the genocide in Bosnia and the genocide in Rwanda, this observer had no illusions as to which lives mattered most. In Europe, he rallied the world against Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and brought him to heel and eventually to The Hague for justice. But not so in Rwanda. In Rwanda, the killing was allowed to rage on unabated and with little concern.
While the bloodletting of Europeans couldn't be tolerated, the bloodbath that drowned Black Rwandans could. Bill Clinton marshaled the forces of NATO to intervene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, deploying 60,000 soldiers under Operation Joint Endeavor. Included in the effort was Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and of course The U.S. and The UK, among others. In Rwanda, even with glaring evidence indicating a certain death of the most horrible kind was imminent for the Tutsi minority, the Clinton duo didn't lift a finger to save one Black soul. Reportedly, between 550,000 and 1 million men women and children were literally hacked to pieces with machetes. And the Clintons moved on.
Although in a 2013 interview with CNBC he stated "If we'd gone in sooner, I believe we could have saved at least a third of the lives lost. And, "It had an enduring impact on me." Estimating that if the U.S. had provided as few as 10,000 troops, Clinton said more than 300,000 Rwandan lives could have been spared. Interestingly enough, the Clintons may be trying to save their own souls by breaking off the survivors a little somethin' somethin' through the Clinton Development Initiative, but that's all history now. It's Black History. And it's history that'll never be forgotten or forgiven.
Bottom line: If the Clintons think Blacks in the Northeast will lackey like "African Americans" did in the deep south, they'd be wise to think again. After thoroughly reviewing how their welfare and crime reform bills and foreign policy decisions negatively impacted the lives of millions of Black people, this observer will wager, these professional carpetbaggers may have the surprise of their lives handed to them sooner than later. Podcast below!
BTW, for those who aren't sure of the difference between Black people and African Americans, you can read my book entitled Race Related: The Rise and Fall of the African American found on Amazon.
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