Hillary Clinton Discusses Taking on the NRA with Mary J. Blige

By Beth Baumann

Singer and songwriter Mary J. Blige launched a new series on Apple Music called “411.” During her first episode, Blige sat down with Hillary Clinton for a one-on-one interview.

During the interview, Blige sang a song to Clinton. The song focuses on how African American mother’s feel when they send their children off to school every day, fearful that they may face police brutality, up to and including death.

Following the song, Blige asks Clinton what she would do to start to heal the country, hinting at gun violence, to which she replied:

I have been so heartbroken over what’s been going on because it’s fundamentally at odds with – and wrong – that African American parents have to sit their children down and deliver the message you just sang. Be careful. And yet we still have so many terrible deaths, some of at the hands of the police. Many at the hands of others, like Trayvon Martin…We need to do better training with our police so that they don’t immediately draw the wrong conclusions, like the song said: a gun, a knife or a wallet. And that they learn better ways to deescalate tension and violence rather …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms