I don't know what you would call a president that is responsible for increasing black incarceration rates.

Why "oopsy"? What he said was spot-on and certainly needed to be said. And cynical I may be, but Hillary's got this next one. Her husband will have to do better than that if he's trying to sabotage his wife's chances.

Though, arguably, his comment to Ted Kennedy about how Obama would be fetching coffee for them did just that.

Oopsy is what the content said at the link -- that he's kind of a problem for Hillary.

ppen: "I don't know what you would call a president that is responsible for increasing black incarceration rates."

To me the problem is that the Black leadership did NOT work to reduce sentences on those that were ensnared in the web intended for violent criminals.

The Black Caucus, the NAACP, and others abandoned the local neighborhoods/churches in favor of the almighty dollar instead of fighting to ensure that simple criminals were not treated like violent predators.

Those of us that are old enough to remember those times remember how violent it was and unfortunately still is today (for blacks more so than whites which it seems is only sad to whites). So there was a "problem".

Responding to a problem is not incorrect.

Not tweaking the "first answer" is.

If Black people do not elect leaders or expect their leaders to look out for them why cry foul on Whites. We can't do anything "right" for blacks according to their leaders and the young radicals.

(rant over. It was a bad Sunday night and Monday is going to get worse.)

I don't know what you would call a president that is responsible for increasing black incarceration rates.

Like incarceration is just some arbitrary thing that happens on the President's whim. I don't suppose the people who are actually incarcerated have anything to do with their situation. Victims all.

Wasn't Bill Clinton our "first" black president?

Toni Morrison in in 1998:

African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas. And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and body-searched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? The message was clear: “No matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how much coin you earn for us, we will put you in your place or put you out of the place you have somehow, albeit with our permission, achieved. You will be fired from your job, sent away in disgrace, and—who knows?—maybe sentenced and jailed to boot. In short, unless you do as we say (i.e., assimilate at once), your expletives belong to us.”

I don't suppose the people who are actually incarcerated have anything to do with their situation. Victims all.

Prison's a full innocent people. Just ask them, they'll tell you.

"I don't know what you would call a president that is responsible for increasing black incarceration rates. "

Destroyer of the American manufacturing base? Exporter of jobs? Part of the problem?

Ah if any Republican had said those things he would be lambasted everywhere as super racist. But with a Democrat, he won't be.