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In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician's public repudiation of an extremist person or group, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician or the politician's party.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Time for a 'Sister Souljah' moment )〕 It has been described as "a key moment when the candidate takes what at least appears to be a bold stand against certain extremes in their party" and as "a calculated denunciation of an extremist position or special interest group."〔 Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party, although such a repudiation runs the risk of alienating some of the politician's allies and the party's base voters. The term is named after the hip hop artist Sister Souljah. ==Origins== The term originated in the 1992 presidential candidacy of Bill Clinton.〔 In a ''Washington Post'' interview published on May 13, 1992, the hip-hop MC, author, and political activist Sister Souljah was quoted as saying (in response to the question regarding black-on-white violence in the 1992 Los Angeles riots): Question: "Even the people themselves who were perpetrating that violence, did they think that was wise? Was that a wise reasoned action?" Souljah: "Yeah, it was wise. I mean, if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?… White people, this government and that mayor were well aware of the fact that black people were dying every day in Los Angeles under gang violence. So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person? Do you think that somebody thinks that white people are better, are above and beyond dying, when they would kill their own kind?" (Quoted in David Mills (16 June 1992) "In Her Own Disputed Words; Transcript of Interview That Spawned Souljah's Story" The Washington Post.〔David Mills. "(Sister Souljah's Call to Arms ).' ''Washington Post'', May 13, 1992, p. B1.〕) Speaking to Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Rainbow Coalition in June 1992, Clinton responded both to that quotation and to something Souljah had said in the music video of her song “The Final Solution: Slavery’s back in Effect” ("If there are any good white people, I haven't met them").〔Anthony Lewis. '"( Abroad at Home; Black and White )," ''New York Times''.〕 “If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘black,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech,” said Clinton. Prior to his appearance, Clinton's campaign staff had conducted an intense debate about how far he should go in distancing himself from Jackson, who was unpopular with moderate voters. When Souljah was invited to speak at the conference, Clinton's advisors saw their chance. Clinton's response was harshly criticized by Jackson, who said, “Sister Souljah represents the feelings and hopes of a whole generation of people,” and he claimed that she had been misquoted.〔Lewis, ''Op.cit.''〕 Clinton was also criticized by some of the Democratic Party's other African American supporters. Souljah responded by denying she had ever made remarks promoting murder and accused Clinton of being a racist and a hypocrite because he had played golf at a country club that refused to admit black members until he decided to run for President earlier in the year; Clinton acknowledged that he was once a member of an all-white Arkansas golf club early into his Presidential campaign and publicly apologized.〔 In response to the rebuttal, Paul Greenberg, a progressive Arkansas journalist and longtime Clinton critic who dubbed the Arkansas Governor "Slick Willie" during his 1980 re-election bid,〔(American Frontline:Stories of Bill ) Accessed August 25, 2014〕 criticized Souljah for lying about what she said in an earlier interview with the Washington Post, accusing her of trying to fend off criticism "with the savvy of an experienced pol." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sister Souljah moment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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