The secret meeting between Hillary Clinton, and Black Lives Matter

In 2015, Hillary Clinton met with BLM, off the record kind of. They tucked the transcript away for obvious reasons.

Enjoy some of the more memorable discourse below:

1. Setting the tone

   “We have a lot of questions about a range of issues, not just focused on police, but policing is, obviously, central to the movement and central to this space, but also a host of questions around race both at the national level and then at the local level, which is why we were intentional about making sure that this space included people from communities across the country.”

2. First question; taking tanks away from cops

“Does that include, you know, under the Obama Administration’s actions that you mentioned, it doesn’t include MRAVs, which many of us refer to as tanks, in that sort of prohibited class of weaponry. So would you include those in that class of weaponry?”

1. Cops need to treat people with guns like their children, instead of arresting them

“Well, since they were arrested and they were loading it, let’s have a conversation. Right? Because I’m not under any illusion that there was a real and present danger, right, for an adolescent to have a weapon. I get that. But you signed up for a job that requires real and present danger. So if your first reaction is to arrest or subdue instead of have a conversation like it was your kid… The thing that you would do would be have a conversation, let’s try to talk to a counselor, let me get this gun away from you. Where did you even get this gun?”

1. White Privilege, Hillary Clinton has too much of it

“Thirdly, I wanted to say that your experience as a wealthy white woman in power will absolutely never be the same as mine or as (Nikos?) or any other woman in America who is black, or a person of color… I’m really like I’m trying to calm down. I don’t like that. I think that you’re really speaking from a place of privilege without acknowledging that you’re speaking from a place of privilege, and that’s just not okay.”

1. The New Deal for Blacks, FDR style

“So I guess my question is: What does a new deal look like for the minorities in this country that allows us to close the racial wealth gap? Because that’s what will solve our violence issues, and then on some level, it’ll solve some of our policing issues because the police will be forced to look at you differently.”

1. Police are causing gentrification

“One of the things that you said, that the police are a critical part of keeping communities safe. I think many of us at this table would disagree… That’s what’s happening in D.C. (inaudible) public housing community are now having their homes stripped because of gentrification. So it’s complete communities that are just being pushed out, made homeless to make room for condos.”

1. Blacks need the Feds, not the cops

“Historically marginalized people, especially African Americans, have needed direct intervention from the federal government because we cannot rely on local and state governments to do things for us.”

1. Twelve total attempts to get Hillary to commit to giving them money

“So how do we determine who gets this money and that these communities that are in dire need of this money are actually the ones that’s getting it and not other communities? What type of formula will you use?”

1. BLMs last question

“And then the other thing — So that's that. People on Twitter wanted to know about your, this—they wanted to know about Bill — President Clinton put in things that ostensibly hurt communities of color and what will you do —“

I think they forgot to do their homework….