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no, they allowed some and not others
Trump 'cancels' Goodyear tires as he campaigns against 'cancel culture'
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Birtherism was not racist except in the minds of those who wanted to say it was. Why was it racist? Just because Obama is black? Is opposition to Obama enough to make something racist?
Obama certainly propagated racial division in his reactions and words in events like Ferguson and Baltimore and that ridiculous “beer summit”. He could have been a calming influence on racial divisios
It’s an international company with production facilities in 22 countries, including China. It’s not your “all American company” anymore. Most of its facilities are overseas.
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pnewton
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If you believe it. I prefer not to think of Republicans are all racists. That is the irony with equating BLM with MAGA, a campaign slogan for a man who has been attracting followers among the more racial intolerant with a slogan of social justice. If it is true, and I think the two are not equal, then it by default equates racism with Trump.
Well, if we are going to get creative, then the Bureau of Land Management proceeded Black Lives Matter.
I think what is missed in all the rush to demean these black lives, is that to use the same slogan, _______ lives matter, specifically removes black, then substitutes something else. For example, “Support the police” would same the same thing as “Blue Lives Matter” with out the confrontational removal of the value of black lives.
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Bohemian Lives Matter!!!
or is it
Bojangles Lives Matter!!!
or is it
Bojangles Lives Matter!!!
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pnewton
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I wonder if Trump would oppose Goodyear if they only made whitewall tires.
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or this?
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Nepperhan
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Man, I hate to go over this. Racism lay in the implication that Obama was somehow ‘different’. Birtherism after viewing the Honlulu birth announcement was mindless; further on it became a racist trope.
Obama tried to be a calming influence. Compare Trumpism with its ‘us vs. them’. Obviously attempts to bring people together instead of exacerbating differences have better long-term effects. A beer summit is ridiculous? I’d prefer it to Trump calling a protester a “son of a *****”.
Yes. It’s called projection.
Widely acknowledged by whom? Where did anyone, including Hillary, state it had anything to do with Obama’s race?
Again, projection.
There is no way to unify with the disintegrationists. Trump’s Rushmore speech was a unifying speech for anyone who actually believes the the founding principles of the republic.
When you capitalize it, “Black Lives Matter”, it is not a slogan of “social justice”. It is the name of a Marxist organization that has violent and racist overtones.
If you wish to claim that the lives of American blacks do indeed matter, virtually no American would disagree. Those would don’t agree are unworthy of acknowledgement.
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27lw
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How about All Black Lives Matter:
www.blackenterprise.com
Congressional GOP Candidate Kimberly Klacik: ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats’
Kimberly Klacik released an ad titled “Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats." She is running for the congressional seat once held by Rep. Elijah Cummings.
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Nepperhan
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Many commentators, both conservative and left-leaning. The question is if birtherism became a racist trope, not who figured this out. That’s not projection or speculation.
Which founding principles – lack of objection to slavery? Even if he was stating principles, he was not stressing that “We can all we together because of the founders”, he was simply bashing political opponents. That’s divisive on the 4th of July, the celebration of the birth of a nation.
It is nothing but projection and a disturbing practice by the left to accuse everything as racist.
I’ve already named them.
- all of us are created equal
- we are endowed by our creator with individual rights.
- these rights are antecedent to government.
- government does does not have the power to create rights, as such power is granted by the people.
- government’s primary function is to protect individual rights.
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Let’s be realistic here.
Chattel slavery was first established in what would be the US in 1619, 200 years before anything resembling the Democratic Party came into existence.
Slavery continues to exist in the US in a variety of forms. One organization estimates that there are over 400,000 slaves in the US right now. Most of these people are immigrants working in forced labor and debt bondage situations (typically in prostitution and domestic service).
Trying to blame Democrats for slavery is like blaming Republicans for poverty. It’s just a bad, and historically inaccurate, partisan trope.
We should be better than that. This site should encourage deep reflection on the nature of these serious problems - and the answer is never as simple as “The political party I dislike is to blame.” That is the lazy man’s answer, not the thinking man’s answer.
The US did not exist until 1776.
The 1619 project is a fictional misrepresentation of our republic, built by some who herself has spoken with racist overtones.
It is not legal in the US to own slaves. The 13th amendment makes slavery illegal. Illegal slavery is rejected by virtually all Americans today.
Or trying to call the US a racist country.
Well said. So let’s stop calling Trump a racist, blaming him for the virus and it’s resulting deaths.
I’m on board, Bill.
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27lw
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Try to slog through this to debunk that 400k number.
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/228/216
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/228/216
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pnewton
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To be clear, some companies, like Goodyear, support racial equality. It is not the whole of the United States that is seen as racist. But comparing one’s personal support for elected office with social justice is at best racially obtuse, or egotistical beyond belief!
Jones said it is in this nation’s DNA.
I agree with you, not her.
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Let’s continue to be realistic here.
Slavery was introduced to what would become the US in 1619. That has absolutely nothing to do with the “1619 Project” which I never mentioned (and, incidentally, know virtually nothing about).
Are you disputing that chattel slavery first came to what would be the US in 1619? Because you would be wrong.
Even if we ignore colonial America, which would be silly, and assume American history begins in 1776, that is still more than 50 years before the Democratic Party comes into existence.
Your desire to blame slavery on the Democratic Party is historically indefensible. The Democratic Party didn’t create slavery. It’s true, of course, that the Democratic Party protected the institution in the antebellum period - but that’s true of every other party at the time as well (even the Republican Party didn’t move to abolish slavery until well after the Civil War was under way).
Let’s be better than slinging partisan mud at each other. Let’s think deeply about the issues of our day (including slavery) and work on solutions that include something beyond just blaming the other guys.
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And it was not the United States until 1776.
No. I’m disputing that the United States existed in 1619, so the date is irrelevant. Following 1776 and since, there has been an ongoing effort in this country to eliminate the types of discrimination that stand outside the founding principles of the republic.
The Republican Party was born, at least in part, as an abolitionist party. It maintains that stance through Jim Crow up through today.
Comparing the two parties prior to the Democrats finally coming on board in the late 60’s and early 70’s is ludicrous.
I invite you to do the same.
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Lot of good memes for this topic
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