Part Four of this series* about Hillary's hypocrisy in relation to bigotry (bigotry being only one of the things about which she is hypocritical and/or deceptive) continues with Hillary's Senate years.

Speaking at a church in Harlem, junior U.S. Senator from the State New York, Hillary Clinton, compared being minority members of the United States House of Representatives to--wait for it--being slaves on a plantation. Could any politician who is the least bit empathic reach the age of fifty plus without once trying to imagine the life of slaves on a plantation? Could anyone who once tried to imagine the extent of the misery of those slaves make such an outlandish comparison? http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/17/clinton.plantation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoKT6djIfNM

The attempt at damage control by Hillary's "camp," i.e., those Clinton fans with whom Hillary chooses to surround herself, was also far out in right field. It consisted of politiciansplaining the already painfully obvious: Hillary meant that Republican House majority leadership was stifling discussion by Democratic members. Duuuuuh.

Hillary's problem was not that her audience was too dense to grasp that she was whining about Republicans (as usual). Her problem was that a very highly-privileged, white, U.S. Senator and former First Lady, both of the United States of America and of a former Confederate state, equated some of the most well-compensated, pampered and powerful people in the world with Southern U.S. slaves before Emancipation. ("Plantation," my ass. They spend lobbyists' money, our donations and most of their time, for which we pay them, trying to get themselves re-elected or elected to higher office or otherwise feathering their own nests. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/10/20/10-perks-congress-has-t... http://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-thy-name

Inasmuch as Hillary befouled herself with this bizarre correlation while speaking to an audience consisting predominately of her black constituents, I must assume that her freakish false equivalency was an attempt either to pander to her audience or to have them identify with her. Good grief! But.....how does Hillary Dolezal Clinton, daughter of Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell, get to play the slavery card in any context, anyway? Isn't it bad enough that she attempted to appropriate a black hymn and tries to sound black when speaking to black people, an idiotsyncrasy (sic) that she attributed to her "interracial marriage" and her years living among the most elite Arkansans, including the Waltons in Arkansas. http://famouskin.com/family-tree.php?name=15627+hillary+clinton; http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/09/12/accusing-clinton-of-mimickin...

What's that? You say that the plantation remark was not really racist, "merely" incredibly clueless, tone deaf and exploitative? I consider all attempts to pander to black people, no matter how smooth or clumsy, to be racist; and that particular comment would have been racist even if said to her husband, tête-à-tête. But, okay, I'll give you that one, egregious as it was. Well, then, how about Hillary's hyperbolically Hillarious reference to the late, great Mahatma Ghandi?

I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/nyregion/clinton-apologizes-for-gandhi...

Whisky. Tango. Foxtrot. Gee, I wonder what it was about the Mahatma that prompted Hillary to say that? His sacrificial fasts and imprisonments? His selfless leadership against discrimination and colonialism? Is that what gas stations in St. Louis immediately call to mind? Ironically, Hillary invoked Indians running gas stations in St. Louis to introduce a quote that is attributed to Gandhi all over the internet, but that is not actually traceable to him. How very "generalistic" of her! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fasts_undertaken_by_Mahatma_Gandhi http://www.snopes.com/first-they-ignore-you/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Mq8kOXV_E https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/generalist; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/generalistic

After Hillary's gas station hit the fan, she tried to redeem herself. However, she took responsibility conditionally and only for not being great at stand up:

I have admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi and have spoken publicly about that many times,'' Mrs. Clinton said. ''I truly regret if a lame attempt at humor suggested otherwise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/nyregion/clinton-apologizes-for-gandhi...

First, how on earth is "Do you still go to the gas station, Mr. Gandhi" humorous, even lame humor, and even if said about someone who hadn't been assassinated to death decades earlier? Second, a bad "knock knock" joke is "a lame attempt at humor." Hillary's mind boggler, however, was nothing other than a weird racist, xenophobic, banality. And, once again, the clueless, "sorry, not sorry" non-apology missed the real point (which seems to be a pattern in her attempts at damage control). The issue was not whether Hillary admired Gandhi. The issue was Hillary's stereotyping by race and immigrant status and thinking that's okay, even humorous, until after the blowback smacked her mouth. Sadly, in the process, she trivialized the memory of an icon who was so far braver and greater by the time he reached the age of twenty than she ever will be.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel

As said in closing of Part Three of this series, so much Clinton bigotry, so little attention span. Part Five will continue with Hillary's Senate years, including her infamous "racially-tinged" campaign against the first African American to have a realistic chance at being nominated for President of the United States by one of the two largest U.S. political parties, including how her 2008 primary campaign begat the abominations of birtherism, delegitimizing Obama's candidacy for the Presidency and PUMAism.

*Part One of this series, prompted by Hillary's hypocritical Reno speech about Trump's racism and anti-Semitism, dealt with Hillary's early years, about which we know essentially only what Bill and Hillary have chosen to tell us; Part Two addressed her time as First Lady, when both Clintons were under intense investigation/scrutiny and she was very guarded; Part Three dealt with some of the anti-gay rights deeds and speeches of Bill and Hillary Clinton. http://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-thy-name; http://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-thy-name-part-two ; http://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-thy-name-part-three

Ghandi during a hunger strike

edited to add "to black people" after "pander," per http://caucus99percent.com/comment/179157#comment-179157