Confronting the Clintons’ racism

“From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted — and Hillary Clinton supported — decimated black America.” — Professor Michelle Alexander

Centrist supporters of the Clintons frequently attack the left’s assertion that the Clintons’ abject record of racism, and particularly their anti-blackness, is highly problematic. The following resources are very helpful for anti-racist activists and other leftists in countering centrist arguments supporting the Clintons:

Alexander, Michelle. New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Place of publication not identified: New Press, 2016. Print.

Robinson, Nathan J. Superpredator: Bill Clinton’s Use and Abuse of Black America. , 2016. Print.

DuVernay, Ava, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish, Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Lola Canales, Gina Clayton, William J. Cobb, Malkia Cyril, Angela Y. Davis, Craig DeRoche, David N. Dinkins, Baz Dreisinger, Kevin Gannon, Henry L. Gates, Marie Gottschalk, Newt Gingrich, Lisa Graves, Cory Greene, John Hagan, J M. Hough, Van Jones, David A. Keene, James W. Kilgore, Glenn E. Martin, Marc Mauer, Khalil G. Muhammad, Pat Nolan, Grover G. Norquist, Dorsey Nunn, Liza J. Peterson, Charles B. Rangel, Kyung-ji Rhee, Shaka Senghor, Bob Sloan, Deborah Small, Bryan Stevenson, Ken Thompson, Nicholas Turner, Daniel Wagner, Jason Moran, Hans Charles, and Kira Kelly. 13th. , 2016.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/920740423
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961104800
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002638189

Further reading:

Doctoral Candidate Ahmad Greene-Hayes’s “Hillary Clinton and the White Women Who Lynch Us”