Hillary Clinton’s bold comments on Ferguson and race

Media called it “bizarre” that Hillary Clinton had not made a statement of Ferguson, but when she did, it was one of the strongest statements ever made on the racial tension engulfing the Missouri city. At a speech before technology leaders in San Francisco, she said “we cannot ignore the inequities that persist in our justice system.” Blogging for the Washington Post, Nia-Malika Henderson said “she did what few of her prominent fellow white Democrats have done in the context of Ferguson–she acknowledged the well-known statistics that show that blacks get treated differently than whites when it comes to everything from traffic stops to sentencing.” Henderson also noted that she transcended just listing the statistics, “she got personal by asking whites to put themselves in the shoes of black Americans.” Some progressives noticed, but even as they praised her, they questioned her motives. One tweet called it a “careful triangulation and calculation driven by political interest rather than genuine feeling.”

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