The Patriot Post® · Clinton Bemoans 'White Privilege'

The GOP assembled Monday in Cleveland for the start of the Republican National Convention, but that wasn’t the only political event happening in Ohio. Hillary Clinton attended her own confab in the southwest corner of the state — the NAACP’s 107th Annual Convention, which is taking place this year in Cincinnati.

Clinton took advantage of a speaking slot to emphasize what she believes is a “need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice,” adding, “[W]e cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African-Americans.” She also lampooned “white Americans” whom she says “need to do a better job of listening when African-Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers [blacks] face every day.” She went on to lecture, “We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility rather than assume that our experiences are everyone’s experiences.”

It’s worth recounting the words of Mark Alexander, who, after the death of Michael Brown in 2014, summed up the growing problem of black privilege: “I would argue that there are to varying degrees undeniable societal biases based on all those human traits and attributes we are supposed to ignore — race, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, etc. Do I think those biases are so pronounced that some groups experience more privilege under some circumstances than others? Yes. Is it worth discussing? Yes, but only if that discussion includes the whole color spectrum of privilege. …

"In Ferguson, black privilege meant that a drug-using 300-pound black man was entitled to walk into a convenience store, brazenly steal merchandise and physically assault a tiny store clerk. It means he was entitled to walk down the middle of a street taunting traffic. It means that when a police officer told him to get out of the street, he was entitled to punch the officer through his patrol vehicle window and attempt to take the officer’s weapon. It means that he was entitled to defy lawful police orders to stop when he turned and charged toward that officer to assault him again. It means when the officer shot that black man, it was, by default, racist. It means that you can adopt a ‘hands up’ symbolic gesture, though the assailant’s hands were not up. It means that race trumps facts, even as determined by a grand jury. It means that, in the name of ‘civil rights,’ black people are entitled to riot and loot small businesses, most owned by responsible and hard-working black residents.”

Clinton and her sycophants will never acknowledge this when they’ve got a political agenda to peddle.