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Sorry to rain on your parade (no, I’m not sorry) but Hillary Clinton already made the unforgivable sin of saying “all lives matter” less than one month ago.

Via WaPo:

She said it. She really did. Actually she typed it. But still, there was no hedge.

In a live Facebook Q&A set up primarily for average people interested in asking Hillary Clinton questions, some reporters popped in too. Ok, a lot of reporters popped in, since Clinton hasn’t exactly been too open about taking questions from reporters. Among the online attendees was the Post’s own, Wesley Lowery. Lowery asked Clinton this question and got this response:

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“Black lives matter.” With those three little words, Clinton acknowledged that there are myriad ways that race continues to shape life in America that have almost no relationship to pocketbooks, educational credentials or class. There’s ample evidence that income, education and the like do not deliver the same results in black lives that they do in others.

After three successive summers filled with news about the nation’s rocky racial landscape, it’s probably fair to say that at least some of the people running for office in 2016 expect questions about the way the police do their work and how the country responds when something goes wrong.

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