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The remark was part of a longer response to the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]]. The quote was later reproduced without the context of the complete interview<ref>A partial transcript of this interview was posted to Linguist-list:<br>Ellen Contini-Morava. [http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/3/3-512.html Disc: Free Indirect Discourse by Sr. Souljah?]. Linguist-list e-mail list, 19 June 1992.</ref> and she was widely criticized in the media.

In June 1992, Clinton responded to the quote while giving a speech to the [[Rainbow/PUSH|Rainbow Coalition]], saying,

: "If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘black’ and you reversed them, you might think [[David Duke]] was giving that speech."