Clinton denounces anti-black supporter

The Daily Voice

Sen. Hillary Clinton today rejected and denounced what some considered racist comments from one of her Hispanic supporters in Texas. Clinton supporter Adelfa Callejo had told the media that black politicians have done nothing for Hispanics and that Barack Obama “simply has a problem that he happens to be black.”

The 84-year-old Dallas Latina leader said that “when the blacks had the numbers, they never did anything to support us. … There’s a lot of hurt feelings about that. And I don’t think we’re going to get over it anytime soon.”

In a separate interview Wednesday night, Callejo seemed to repeat the assertion to The Dallas Morning News even as she seemed to distance herself from her own words. “I have been told by a lot of people that they did not trust him because he is black,” she said. “They don’t trust him because of the local people. But that is minor, compared to his lack of experience.

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