Bringing them to heel: Would the real race-baiting racist please stand up?
In what can only be described as ‘shameful hypocrisy on racism’ or, perhaps, just really bad campaign advice, Hillary Clinton and her campaign went full tilt yesterday trying to tie Donald Trump to the Ku Klux Klan.
There’s a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.https://t.co/AqB3DM2m0N
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 25, 2016
While Clinton’s twisted attack on Trump may have some strange justification based on several of his endorsers, her attempt to ‘play the race card’ is fraught with huge problems given her past statements and alliances.
Love him or hate him, and though he has been slow to ‘disavow’ their endorsements, Trump has never praised or endorsed anyone in the KKK.
The same, however, cannot be said of Hillary Clinton.
Clinton’s attack on Trump intentionally ignores what Salon.com has called Clinton’s own “shameful hypocrisy on racism.”
Clinton’s KKK ‘friend and mentor’…
In addition to a KKK Grand Dragon who has endorsed Clinton, her ‘shameful hypocrisy on racism’ includes the very public 2010 praising of late Senator and ex-KKK recruiter Robert Byrd as a “friend and mentor” in a lengthy video eulogy.
Though Byrd passed away in 2010, it was his deep involvement with the KKK as a Kleagle that led him into a career in politics, as the New York Times has pointed out.
In the early 1940s, he organized a 150-member klavern, or chapter, of the Klan in Sophia, W.Va., and was chosen its leader. Afterward, Joel L. Baskin, the Klan’s grand dragon for the region, suggested that Mr. Byrd use his “talents for leadership” by going into politics.
“Suddenly, lights flashed in my mind!” Mr. Byrd later wrote. “Someone important had recognized my abilities.”
Clinton’s fawning eulogy of Byrd while she was Secretary of State—a mere six years ago—is especially awkward given the fact that Senator Byrd also filibustered for an entire night trying to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Hillary Clinton & the ‘super-predators’ who must be ‘brought to heel’…
In addition to Clinton’s fawning eulogy of the late Robert Byrd, there are her own damning statements when referring to crime involving black youth.
Again, whether people love or hate Donald Trump, the fact of the matter is, for Hillary Clinton and her campaign to play the race card against Trump is to ignore her ‘shameful history on racism.’
Watch Salon.com’s video on Hillary Clinton’s ‘shameful hypocrisy on racism.
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