WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign this month has not yet produced the kind of bombshell revelation that some hoped would sink the Democratic nominee’s presidential bid. But one email reveals the tension between the Clinton campaign and one of its biggest critics from the left, the Black Lives Matter social justice movement.
In an email from January, a Clinton campaign staffer, domestic policy adviser Sara Solow, weighed in on an interview the New Yorker Radio Hour conducted that month with Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza. In response to the interview, in which Garza criticized Clinton’s demeanor in a meeting with Black Lives Matter activists, Solow had just one word: “yuck.”