“Look, I don’t believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You’re not going to change every heart. You’re not.”
Brian Snyder / Reuters
Late Monday, Black Lives Matter Boston released the first video from the closed-door encounter between Hillary Clinton and activists with the group.
Activists met with Clinton on Aug. 11, following a town hall in Keene, N.H. on drug abuse. They had wanted to enter the event, and were going to be allowed in, but opted for a few private moments with Clinton.
The activists appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday to talk about the encounter and release some video of the exchange. Currently, there does not appear to be one, full, unedited video of the entire interaction.
In the video released, the activists tell Clinton about an "extremely long history of unfortunate government practices that don't work that particularly affect black people and black families, and until we as a country, and then the person who's in the seat that you seek, actually addresses the anti-blackness current that is America's first drug."
In the portion of the video released, Clinton says there was a climate, in the '80s and 90s, "very serious crime" that was "impacting primarily communities of color and poor people. And part of it was that there was just not enough attention paid."
She suggested that her job as a candidate for president is to present solutions to the American people and draw support behind the politics.
"And you know, in life, in politics, in government, you name it, you've got to be constantly asking yourself, 'Is this working?' she said. "Is this not?' And if it's not what do we do better? And that's what I'm trying to do now on drugs, on mass incarceration, on police behavior and criminal justice reform."
Here's the video from MSNBC:
Here are the videos the activists released through GOOD:
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