Clinton will push for prison reforms

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will in the coming days outline what her campaign describes as an “extensive agenda” of criminal justice system reforms, starting with suggested sentencing changes and a racial profiling law.

The protesters began chanting “black lives matter” a few minutes into her speech.

At least one high-ranking Clinton supporter says that any ill will from her previous South Carolina campaign appears to have evaporated, saying the former secretary of state is now on firm footing, strongly reconnecting with the black community.

The crowd of about 2,000 chanted “Let her talk!” and Mr Lewis asked them to stop. “We need the promise of a rising generation of activists and organizers who are fearless in your advocacy and determination”, Clinton added as she continued her speech.

Videos taken and uploaded to Twitter account @AUCShutItDown showed students outside the event speaking with organizers of Clinton’s rally and also singer Usher, who was there in support of Clinton.

Once the protestors were gone, Clinton confidently detailed her criminal justice platform of ending racial profiling, the era of mass incarceration, private prisons and the disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine.

At the NAACP banquet, Sellers said he would like to see her speech do more than address flashpoints and tragedies of the past, hoping she’ll get more into criminal, economic and education reforms.

Hillary Clinton will return to the Palmetto State to discuss her plans to help South Carolinians get ahead and stay ahead.

Before the Fair Sentencing Act was passed, the ratio of time served for crack cocaine and power cocaine was 100:1, even though the two are chemically identical.

“Yes, yes they do”, Clinton said.

Black Americans make up 80 percent of crack cocaine users, where powder cocaine users are typically white.

Clinton has made frank discussion about the country’s lingering racism a central theme of her primary campaign, in an effort to woo the coalition of minority, young, and female voters who twice catapulted Barack Obama into the White House.

“His grace and moral clarity were compelling”.

“We have to take on the continuing abuses where oppression is more prevalent than opportunity”, Clinton said.

Earlier on Friday, Clinton attended a luncheon with local and regional leaders of the African American clergy and was introduced by another civil rights hero, the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Society, she said, should be founded on two simple principles: “To be kinder to each other and to love each other”.