LeBron cosigns Bill Clinton as "first black President"

[Crude Abolitionist]

I fukking hate this

 

[ISO]

I assume that many of his supporters backed up his bill, a lot of black people at the time were trying to get reduce the amount of crime polluting neighborhoods, so I believe a lot of black people co-signed it with good intentions.

It's funny how the coli has no plan nor interest in improving communities except juelize at every possible solution. Black people at that time viewed the bill as a way to cut down on some of the crimes being produced.

The community is divided. While you got a certain segment trying to make their area safer to live, there's another segment who gets angry because you're trying to get rid of the shyt.

It's a lose-lose situation because one side sees the crime happening and wants to do something about it, however, then you have the other side who sees it also but for some reason has an obligation to defend the ones who openly commit crimes.

I have nothing else to say here.

Exactly the murder rates were at an All-Time high across American inner cities shyt was really bad. Knowing what we know now the crime bill was a mistake but that's not how most black people felt at the time.

Theres a reason Clinton was called the first black president lol black people fukked with him and still do. Toni Morrison is the one who said it. Don’t know why y’all shytting on Bron. He was a kid during Clinton’s presidency and grew up hearing the Clinton the “first black president” shyt which is why he respects him to this day.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Said it in the coliseum thread, the crime bill was pushed by the community and CBC even tho crime rates were falling. Welfare reform was pushed after cacs voted in Ginrich and hard right cons who felt it was needed since the Economy was improving. That was after he vetoed two bills where crackers were trying to deny benefits to teen moms. Clinton still top five president ever despite his flaws and raping women

 

[xCivicx]

I like lebron but this is disrespectful as fukk

 

[xCivicx]

This aint it he literally put thousands of black men in jail after that crime bill with harsh and unfair sentences

Not only that, his student loan revamp is the reason so many black people are in debt

 

[richaveli83]

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

This is why Kawhi is my favorite player. Lowkey, he's definitely smart enough not fall for the social media okey dokey like Durant and Bron.

 

[Methodical]

This is why Kawhi is my favorite player. Lowkey, he's definitely smart enough not fall for the social media okey dokey like Durant and Bron.

I remember the interviewer show Kawhi to see if he knows what SadMJ meme is?. Kawhi was like no so they said it's social media post sadmj meme just funny stuff and Kawhi was like "Why?, this is so sad"

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Because the narrative is that Clinton did something black people absolutely didn't support, but that's not really true.

Lots of revisionist black history going on right about now.

In 2001, seven years after he signed the Crime Bill during the Crack Era, Clinton received a hero's welcome when he moved in to Harlem.

Harlem street jam welcomes Clinton to new office

July 31, 2001 Posted: 12:47 AM EDT (0447 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Proclaiming Harlem as his home Monday, former President Bill Clinton said he wants to help revitalize the largely African-American district and use his new office there as a base for a global initiative to fight AIDS and poverty.

"What I'm going to do here is to try to help promote economic opportunity in our back yard, in our country and around the world," Clinton said in a speech that resonated with political undertones.

Political leaders from the African-American community and the New York area praised Clinton throughout the lengthy outdoor rally, celebrating the former president's first day in his Harlem office.

"Now I feel like I'm home," Clinton said as the crowd cheered. The celebration got under way Monday morning, just blocks from Clinton's new office on 125th street.

Clinton explained that his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York's Democratic junior senator, and daughter Chelsea were not at the ceremony because of a family illness.

Gov. George Pataki proclaimed Monday as "William Jefferson Clinton Day" in Harlem.

Supporters chanted "We Want Bill" while a small group of protesters told the Arkansas native to "go home."

Clinton abandoned plans earlier this year to rent office space in Carnegie Towers, a midtown building that would have cost twice the amount of his Harlem office.

In the wake of that controversy, the former president said he chose the New York neighborhood of Harlem because he wanted to be part of the federal empowerment zone -- which provides federal aid for an economically depressed area -- he helped to create.

"It was very significant that ... former President Clinton would have his office located here in central Harlem," said Terry Lane, president and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. "His being here helps to budget the economic fiber of urban America."

However, not everyone thinks Clinton's arrival will spark an economic resurgence. About a dozen members of the New Black Panther Party voiced their disapproval during Monday's celebrations, telling Clinton to go back to Arkansas and chanting "Whose streets? Our streets!" Members of the radical, largely African-American group believe Clinton's move could increase rent so that local businesses would be forced out of the area.

"I want to make sure I'm a good neighbor in Harlem," Clinton said. "I'm glad the property values are going up, but I don't want the small business people to be run out because I'm coming in."

CNN.com - Harlem street jam welcomes Clinton to new office - July 31, 2001

 

[TheBigBopper]

Never understood why they said this man was the first black president. Is it just because he’s country and plays the saxophone ? Doesn’t make a man black.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Lebron ain’t the first one to say. He’s just ignorant on what Bill did with that crime as is a lot of people were/are. A lot of black people used to say he’s the first black president or something along the lines of that. Just like hella rappers used to compare themselves to Trump

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

Paragraph indent, I make intense sense
nikkas on that Gil Scott dope hint hint
At age 15 they started smoking Billy Clint
Now he's 21 and wanna know where the time went

 

[Carlton Banks]

The 90's was so different. Black folks loved Bill Clinton and Trump.