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"I think her speech a couple of nights ago was totally irresponsible," Flynn said in an interview aired on ABC's "This Week."

"When she talked about white people being to blame, I mean that is so irresponsible. What we have to look at is a speech that is positive, that's forward looking and demonstrates an intellectual courage, that doesn't try to attack an ideology one way or the other."

Following the officer-involved shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana and the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers, Clinton said white people need to walk in the shoes of African-Americans.

"I will call for white people like myself to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have the talk about how to really protect themselves when they're the ones that should be expecting protection from encounters with police," the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Friday in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Flynn said there's only one race to worry about and "that's the human race."