Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams interrupted Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night at a lavish private fundraiser in South Carolina. The young woman accused the presidential candidate of hypocrisy for supporting “tough on crime” laws that led to mass incarceration of black Americans.
Williams held up a sign reading “We have to bring them to heel,” recalling a line from Clinton’s 1994 “super-predator” speech, which has been widely characterized as racist. Secret Service promptly forced the Black Lives Matter activist to leave the wealthy, almost all-white fundraiser.
Activists uploaded a video of the protest to YouTube under the name #NotASuperpredator, with a caption linking to the article “Why Hillary Clinton doesn’t deserve the black vote” by legal scholar Michelle Alexander, author of the prominent book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness.”
On Thursday morning, the tag #WhichHillary began trending on Twitter, as thousands of people criticized Clinton for constantly shifting positions and for what they see as her hypocrisy.
By 1:30 p.m. EST, there were approximately 100,000 tweets with the hashtag.
Many of the tweets also called out the candidate for her contradictory record on marriage equality, which she opposed until 2013; the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she strongly pushed for as secretary of state but now claims to be against; and the Keystone Pipeline, which she previously supported.
#WhichHillary is going to respond to this today? I mean, if the media bothers to cover it. pic.twitter.com/ewqkI7HNVu
— Steve Smith 🇵🇸 (@stevesmithis) February 25, 2016
This sums it up #WhichHillary pic.twitter.com/ywnwBC2bs7
— Dr Jez Phillips (@drjezphillips) February 25, 2016
Back to the issues?!! Thought racial justice was an issue or is it just a tab on your website? #WhichHillary
— Kayla Reed (@iKaylaReed) February 25, 2016
#WhichHillary The one who thinks $12/hr is a living wage or one who charged $225,000 per speech?
— Cursed Ograbme (@Soupthemighty) February 25, 2016
#WhichHillary: The one who shills for corporations, the one who attacks the poor, the one who advocates and cheers on bombing campaigns?
— Remi Kanazi (@Remroum) February 25, 2016
Hillary believes in choice, that's why there are so many shapeshifting versions of her to choose from. #WhichHillary
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) February 25, 2016
#WhichHillary, the one who claims to be a lifelong child advocate or the one who never saw an Israeli massacre she didn't applaud?
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) February 25, 2016
#WhichHillary is the one who released this photo, then claimed it wasn't intended as a smear?https://t.co/B5tbyFAdBw pic.twitter.com/yf5AWxGsvp
— Verda-Verde (@verda_verde) February 25, 2016
#WhichHillary One who supported prison privatization & takes $$ from Prison Lobby or one against mass incarceration https://t.co/iLdYIE7NFg
— Mimi (@jrzygirlinfla) February 25, 2016
