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Hillary Clinton and ‘Black Lives Matter’: An Unproductive Confrontation

Reporters and voters have so far gotten few glimpses of Hillary Clinton speaking candidly. One of the few examples available is in the videotape and transcript of her meeting with Black Lives Matter protesters in New Hampshire last week. Clinton handled herself adeptly, but her effort to propitiate the protesters spotlights a problem Democrats face — appeasing a movement whose premises are factually questionable and whose tactics are off-putting to many voters. The candidate was attacked for her husband’s acceptance of welfare reform (“disasters in impoverished communities of color”) and “the domestic and international War on Drugs.” Clinton said that these policies were adopted in a period of high crime and were responses to concerns of “communities of color and poor people.” As she put it: “There was a different set of concerns back in the ’80s and early ’90s.”

Tuskegee Airman Robbed, Carjacked by Black Thugs

Black lives matter, right? Not to some other blacks.

Not News: Unarmed White Teen Killed by Cop; Two White Cops Killed by Blacks

The media enthusiastically remind us that it’s the first anniversary of the death of Ferguson’s Michael Brown, a death that spawned the so-called Black Lives Matter movement. In a September speech at the United Nations, President Barack Obama said, “The world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri — where a young man was killed, and a community was divided.” Never mind that both a grand jury and the federal Department of Justice exonerated the officer who shot and killed Brown. Never mind that neither the physical evidence nor eyewitness testimony corroborated the assertions that Brown had his hands up or that he said, “Don’t shoot.”

Wednesday Short Cuts

The Left’s Twisted Concern for Premature Black (Voter) Deaths

It’s not so much that black lives matter as black votes matter to Democrats.