{"id":241732,"date":"2016-05-05T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T07:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/really-bill-ex-prez-clinton-serves-up-fried-chicken-to-black-people-in-kentucky\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:00:45","slug":"really-bill-ex-prez-clinton-serves-up-fried-chicken-to-black-people-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/really-bill-ex-prez-clinton-serves-up-fried-chicken-to-black-people-in-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Really, Bill? Ex-prez Clinton serves up\u2026 fried chicken to black people in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.05\/thumbnail\/572af182c46188567c8b45a7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        In an apparent attempt to connect with Black Americans on a recent trip to Louisville, Kentucky, former President Bill Clinton decided to serve some fried chicken to black people at a local soul food caf\u00e9. Classy.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"50.659793814433\">\n<p>In a predominantly African-American neighborhood, Clinton got behind the counter of Franco\u2019s Home Cooking and served away. The ex-president thus became the second Clinton (after his wife, Hillary, the Democratic presidential frontrunner) to be called out on a radio show for racial pandering, according to The American Mirror.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" readability=\"5.1968503937008\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.3307086614173\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMSS4\">@SMSS4<\/a> White Democrats LOVE to hangout with black people&#8230;.. around election time. &#x1f644;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Laurich (@rlaurich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rlaurich\/status\/727863554024611840\">May 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cBill Clinton came to the hood in Louisville and LITERALLY served fried chicken to Black people,\u201d<\/em> was one irate comment from the local, weekly community-oriented radio show Saturday Morning Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u2019s ham-fisted electioneering stunt came after Hillary last month told three black radio show hosts she never leaves home without hot sauce in her purse.<\/p>\n<p>The irony was quickly picked up by people online. Outraged, some pointed out how markedly different the reaction from the public and restaurant visitors would have been had it been a Republican candidate doing the serving, and not a Democrat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/341891-bill-clinton-fried-chicken\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent attempt to connect with Black Americans on a recent trip to Louisville, Kentucky, former President Bill Clinton decided to serve some fried chicken to black people at a local soul food caf\u00e9. Classy. In a predominantly African-American neighborhood, Clinton got behind the counter of Franco\u2019s Home Cooking and served away. The ex-president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}