Hillary Clinton Laments White Privilege While Living In Lily White Suburb

In a speech yesterday before the U.S Conference of Mayors in the aftermath of the horrific Charleston shooting, Hillary Clinton bemoaned institutional racism in America and the ongoing existence of so-called white privilege.

“Race remains a deep fault line in America,” she declared.

In the address before a San Francisco audience, the 2016 residential front-runner for the Democrats deplored the fact that blacks are much more likely to be denied a mortgage than whites, and in her view, segregation is more prevalent than ever in public schools. Blacks are significantly falling behind whites in income growth, according to Hillary Clinton, and many African-American families are stuck in poor neighborhoods.

Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, the former president, themselves reside, however, in a virtually all-white, wealthy enclave in a New York City suburb.

In addition to calling for “common sense gun reform,” Mrs. Clinton also criticized racially charged rhetoric that could give rise to hate crimes. “Cruel jokes can’t go unchallenged, offhand comments about not wanting ‘those people’ in the neighborhood can’t be ignored, and news reports about poverty and crime and discrimination can’t just evoke our sympathy — even empathy — they must also spur us to action and prompt us to question our own assumptions and privilege,” she added.

According to The Daily Caller, which flagged the apparent lifestyle inconsistency, “Clinton’s criticism of white Americans for ‘privilege’ and ‘not wanting those people’ in the neighborhood” stands in stark contrast to the personal decisions she has made for herself and her family.”

The Clintons live in the upscale “woodsy hamlet” of Chappaqua, New York, which has a black population of 1.9 percent when last measured by the U.S. Census Bureau. The median household income there is more than $100,000, with a median sales price of a single-family home hovering around $1 million, the New York Times reported.

Protected 24-7 by armed Secret Service agents, Mrs. Clinton is a crusader against income inequality and an advocate for women’s rights. She has received criticism across the political spectrum, however, for banking huge speechmaking paydays from Wall Street, accepting large donations for the Clinton Foundation from countries with dismal human rights records, and for allegedly paying female staffers at the family charity and in her Senate office less than their male counterparts.

That the Clintons vacation at lavish beachfront mansions in the Hamptons “seems problematic” for the income inequality message, the New York Times separately observed.

While in the White House during the Bill Clinton presidency, the Clintons sent their daughter Chelsea to an exclusive private school instead of the D.C. public schools, the same expensive private school attended by the Obama daughters. Last month, President Obama appeared to criticize parents who send their kids to private schools as a way to insulate children from contact with lower-income groups.

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