Clinton Library? Gotta Change the Name. Bill and Hillary HAD SLAVES: They Used Forced Prison Labor In their Governor's Mansion Before They Were President         Hillary and Bill Clinton used black prisoners for forced ‘slave’ labour in the Arkansas governor’s mansion SOCIAL media has erupted about a two-decade old revelation that Hillary and Bill Clinton used forced prison labour while in the Arkansas governor’s mansion. A post shared on Twitter yesterday by activist Jeanette Jing contained two pages of Ms Clinton’s book It Takes A Village, which was released in 1996. It has since gone viral. In it, the former Democratic Presidential Nominee recalls the African-American prisoners who worked at the mansion she shared with Bill while he led the state from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. “When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor (sic) at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Ms Clinton revealed in the book. While most of the forced workers were convicted murdered, she became friends with “a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences”. Hillary Clinton's 1996 Book Shows She Used Prison Labor As Arkansas First Lady And Twitter Has Questions Per her 1996 book "It Takes A Village," Clinton classified the black prison laborers as "emotional illiterates In re-reading the book, Jing came across a passage in which Clinton reminisced over her time as first lady of Arkansas beside her husband Bill Clinton, who served as the state's governor from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. Via a report from Newsweek, the particular excerpt highlighted the fact that the Clintons used black prison laborers as staff at the Arkansas governor's mansion. She followed the initial tweet with a string of tweets warranting Clinton side-eyes. Maher said "house n" and Clinton used prison labor at her mansion for ten yrs bc it was "a longstanding tradition which kept down costs." pic.twitter.com/EXPrVRjJ7G— Jeanette🌹Corbynista (@JeanetteJing) June 6, 2017 “When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Clinton wrote in the book. She added that she became “friendly” with a few of the workers, most of whom were convicted murderers and who “had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences.” Friendships with the Clintons offered the prisoners scant protections, however. Clinton portrays herself as a harsh taskmaster, writing, “We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule.” Our almost-president also took it upon herself to claim that the black workers did not have “inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning,” instead classifying them as “emotional illiterates.” * Ummm, I must’ve missed all those psychological degrees or certifications on Mrs. Clinton’s resume! Clinton didn’t confirm whether or not the black men received any money for the work they provided to her and her husband. The Centre for Research on Globalization reports that between the years of 1980 - 1994, prison labor wages could range between $1-2 an hour. Still, a 2016 Mother Jones article notes that “some state states, including Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia, do not pay inmates at all.” Jing put it all in plain terms via her tweet, stating that “Hillary Clinton was a direct participant in what [activist, data scientist and policy analyst Samuel Sinyangwe] @samswey correctly described as modern slavery.” Of course, Twitter wasn't having any of this mess and certainly chimed in with thoughts! Hillary's shittiness doesn't negate Trump's shittiness. Both are simultaneously true.— Taheerah🌹Barney (@fleshandbrand) June 7, 2017 Hillary never cared about blacks. All she cared about was the black vote.— Terry (@xebec78) June 6, 2017 According to the thirteenth amendment, that is exactly what prison labor is...slavery. pic.twitter.com/JF5fvMcb7M— Amanda Guthrie (@whattheplucked) June 7, 2017 And Sinyangwe himself summed it up perfectly with his tweet: 2016 was a choice between a white woman benefitting from black prison labor and a white man campaigning on sending black people to prison.— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) June 7, 2017 All of this really just adds another “tick” to the column of problematic actions and words on the Clintons’ record. Even though Hillary Clinton attempted to reach out to the black community during her presidential campaigns, we can’t forget her infamous “superpredator” term, the coke/crack cocaine disparity during Bill Clinton’s term and Hillary Clinton’s outward support of her husband’s controversial 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, just to name a few. Overall, no need for glorifying when the truth is just an open book away. Clinton gets backlash for using Black prison labor as first lady of Arkansas Hillary Clinton has found herself facing backlash for excerpts from her 1996 book It Takes A Village in which she describes how Black prison workers worked at the Arkansas governor’s mansion while she was living there with her husband, Bill Clinton. “When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Clinton recalled in the book, going on to say that she was friendly with “a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences.” Despite this alleged friendship, though, “We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule.” She later wrote that although the men did not have “inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning,” she felt that they were “emotional illiterates.” The excerpts were posted online by Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter, who wrote that “Hillary Clinton was a direct participant in what @samswey correctly described as modern slavery.” Her comments pointed to a string of tweets posted by Samuel Sinyangwe speaking to his experience with the Louisiana legislature watching Black inmates working for white lawmakers for free. Those same lawmakers, he noted, were the ones who enacted laws that were tougher on crime and prisoners, in a state with the world’s highest incarceration rate. The Left’s Latest (and Racially Misguided) Swing at Hillary Clinton Now lefties on social media are enraged by Clinton’s supposed immorality or effete, out-of-touch liberal demeanor. They have even gone so far as to compare her to a modern-day slave owner. Yet they fail to grasp how this form of criticism only serves to undermine their own progressive values. “2016 was a choice between a white woman benefitting from black prison labor and a white man campaigning on sending black people to prison,” said the co-founder of Campaign Zero, Samuel Sinyangwe, on Twitter. Using prisoners as free labor is a troubling practice that needs to be stopped. And the fact that states across this country, and especially the South, have employed this practice for more than a century does not make it any more acceptable. However, a century-long process of pseudo-normalization and institutionalization of an abhorrent practice does make it both harder to undo and easier to sully the reputation of those who interact with it but fail to fix the problem. This new revelation represents one more opportunity for those on the left to criticize Clinton and the authenticity of her progressive credentials. This type of progressive criticism has long undermined the progressive movement and enabled its detractors. This predicament, which frequently befalls progressives in the South, represents what I like to call the Dilemma of the Carpetbagger. And Clinton frequently falls victim to this Catch-22. Notice how the Deepstate dailybeast defends Clinton FROM the left that is part of that silent (increasing) majority of today