Hillary Clinton: “You Know, I’m In This Interracial Marriage”

Newsday reports:

In a smaller meeting with a group of columnists, Clinton said she doesn’t “believe in [slavery] reparations,” but sees a need to “repair the breach that has left too many of our citizens behind.” She was asked about the breach left by the 1995 Federal Communications Commission bill her husband signed that sharply reduced black ownership of radio and TV stations when tax incentives were removed. While admitting to “harsh” Clinton administration compromises with unfortunate consequences during the reign of the Newt Gingrich-dominated, GOP congress, the junior senator from New York said she didn’t know what she would do about the resulting “media consolidation,” were she elected president.

In a moment of levity with the black columnists, Clinton joked about how, as a flat-toned midwesterner, she sometimes lapses into a drawl in the South and tends to drop her “g’s” more around black audiences. In a snide reference to author Toni Morrison’s comment that her husband was the “first black president,” she mused:

“I do find myself dropping g’s. I lived all those years in Arkansas, and, you know, I’m in this interracial marriage.”

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Also see: “9 Reasons Hillary Clinton Could Never Be a Second Black President“