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Hillary Clinton got into a beef with a young African-American woman during a campaign stop in Minnesota Tuesday as voters cast their ballots in the state’s Super Tuesday primary.
The Democratic presidential front-runner was leaving Mapps Coffee shop in Minneapolis when an unidentified Somali-American asked Clinton about past racial remarks, including her characterization of young black criminals as “super-predator” during a decades-old speech, and the lack of diversity among government officials, The Hill reported.
Clinton brought up Abdi Warsame, the first Somali-American elected to the Minneapolis City Council.
But the woman called him inauthentic, prompting a undiplomatic retort from the former secretary of state.
“You know what, dear? You have a different opinion,” Clinton said. “He is a Somali-American elected to the city council, and I am really proud of that.”
But the woman would not be deterred, and continued arguing, prompting Clinton to snap, “Well, why don’t you go run for something, then?”
The woman said she was working for a Somali-American, prompting Clinton to respond, “good.”
The exchange was the second time this week that a voter confronted Clinton about her 1996 — the height of a crack-fueled epidemic of violence — speech calling young people in gangs as “super-predators.”
Last week, a Black Lives Matter activist questioned her about the remark at a fundraiser in South Carolina.