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Bill Clinton: ‘We Are All Mixed-Race People’

Speaking in front of a diverse crowd at an early-voting event in Memphis on Friday, former president Bill Clinton tried to make a “funny comment” about him being referred to as “just a stand-in for the first black president” by noting that, “You know what else we learned from the human genome? Unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent, 100 percent from sub-Saharan Africa, we are all mixed-race people”:

At the same event, Bill also tried to frame Hillary as a better bipartisan “change-maker” than President Obama, while acknowledging that Obama has done “a better job than he has gotten credit for”:

Bill Clinton: ‘We Are All Mixed-Race People’