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WATCH: Chelsea Clinton: I Want My ‘White Children Of Privilege … To Erode That Privilege Throughout Their Lives’

Hank Berrien
WATCH: Chelsea Clinton: I Want My ‘White Children Of Privilege … To Erode That Privilege Throughout Their Lives’
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Speaking during a national Women for Biden organizing call with hard-lefist Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Chelsea Clinton pontificated that she wants her children to “understand” they are “white children of privilege, because I want them to erode that privilege throughout their lives.” Pressley responded, “We know that often there is a revisionist history or a sanitizing—a filtering of history that does not tell the whole story.”

Clinton stated, “You know, Congresswoman, certainly, my children are young, but we believe they’re young, but still citizens. So we talked about the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and Women’s Equality Day, but how fundamentally incomplete that victory was. So not to say it wasn’t a victory and it wasn’t important, but that it was so fundamentally flawed. I mean, it wasn’t only black women who didn’t have the right to vote; indigenous and native American women didn’t have the right to vote—”

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