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Hillary Clinton ‘doesn’t really answer’ question about ‘her white privilege
Posted On Jan 13 2016
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He responded with the (irrelevant) fact that he had a diverse staff back when he was mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland.
Clinton replied by saying she wouldn’t discount any of the aforementioned threats and added gun violence as another one to consider.
Audience member Thalia Anguiano asked the former secretary of state to describe an instance in her life where she directly benefited from her “white privilege”.
“We have laws and we must be guided by those laws, but we shouldn’t have armed federal officers showing up at peoples’ homes, taking women and children out of their beds in the middle of the night”, she said, according to prepared remarks.
“Let me say this: I would give every person, but particularly children, due process to have their story told”. “I think we have to take them all seriously”.
Before Clinton could detail the second experience that sparked her understanding of white privilege, moderator and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos told her that they would have to move on to the next question. The format was changed to a forum this year when national party officials limited the number of debates this election cycle.
Hillary Clinton on Monday called on the Obama administration to end raids that target undocumented immigrants who recently arrived from Central America. I went to a wonderful college. However, she offered no concrete remedies as to how immigration law would be enforced without raids.
“I never really knew what was or wasn’t part of the privilege”, she said.
“That showed me that she does not fully understand what white privilege is and how oppressed marginalized communities are in our society”, the university student told me. “And I just felt like, I have a different kind of life”. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley-all of whom are participating-have issued a huge amount of rhetoric and policy on immigration, criminal justice reform, poverty, and other issues that disproportionately effect minority voters.
