Hillary’s bogus “black-cent
By Michelle Malkin
IN 1992, Bill Clinton hit a political home run with his “Sister Souljah” moment. In 2007, Hillary Clinton suffered a reverse “Sister Souljah” strikeout. If it’s not the end of her presidential aspirations, it should be.
Allow me to explain. Fifteen years ago, then-Gov. Clinton was looking to solidify his centrist credentials. An obscure quote by an obscure radical rapper provided the perfect exploitable opportunity. Interviewed by The Washington Post in the wake of the Los Angeles riots, Souljah had wondered aloud: “If Black people kill Black people every day, . . . “why not have a week and kill white people?”
Bill Clinton took to the bully pulpit at the Rainbow Coalition and denounced Sister Souljah. “If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘black’ and you reversed them,” he lectured sternly, “you might think David Duke was giving that speech.”Political cheerleaders framed this as an act of political bravery – publicly repudiating an extremist racial separatist’s rhetoric to demonstrate independence from minority grievance-mongers in the Democrat Party.
Sen. Clinton – whom conventional wisdom mistakenly casts as the smarter, more disciplined politician of the household – didn’t learn from her hubby’s Sister Souljah triumph. She turned it on its head: Instead of dissociation with racial extremists, she has chosen ingratiation.