Trump tweets video with ‘white power’ chant, then deletes it

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Anonkun said:
Politicians can post videos with rioters supporting shouting Black Supremacist rhetoric and Anti-Christian slogans. But for some reason, no apology is necessary.
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gee , I dunno, shouldnt the bar for the “leader of the free world” be a little higher? just sayin’
 
You should have done a bit more research on the law there. The word “except” provides why the homeowners were well within their rights.
 
toabb said:
shouldnt the bar for the “leader of the free world” be a little higher?
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I’ve seen some historians argue that Trump’s presidency is a simple racist backlash against Obama. As soon as it was shown the presidency was accessible to a black man, the racists needed to show that the presidency was just as accessible to a low white man. Doing so would both lower the dignity of the presidency (and therefore Obama’s achievements) and let the racists feel that they were still superior because “one of their own” was just as capable of being president.

I think the argument is a bit of a stretch, but it seems more realistic each time I read a post like @anonkuns which revels in Trump’s lowbrow language and promotion of white supremacy.
 
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So are you confirming that saying “black power” is racist and that identity politics is a means to fuel that racism???
 
No, you don’t because I find EQUALLY DISTASTEFUL. I detest identity politics, a position much more consistent than yours.
 
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josie_L said:
So are you confirming that saying “black power” is racist and that identity politics is a means to fuel that racism???
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If whites in this country are already in power (they are!); chanting ‘white power’ is a call for white supremacy. Shouting ‘black power’ is entirely different for an oppressed minority group.

This is not all that complicated or difficult to understand. Those who equate the two statements are being intellectually dishonest.
 
No, it was meant to convey your double standards.

By the way,
The Black Power slogan was also criticized by Martin Luther King Jr., who stated that the black power movement “connotates black supremacy and an anti-white feeling that does not or should not prevail.”[75] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also disapproved of Black Power, particularly Roy Wilkins, then the NAACP’s executive director, who stated that Black Power was “a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan…the father of hate and mother of violence.”[11] The Black Power slogan was also met with opposition from the leadership of SCLC and the Urban League.[10]
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Thbolt said:
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Weren’t you telling me how racism isn’t that big in the US? The President retweeted a video with someone yelling “white power”. Can you explain again how that racism isn’t that big of a deal again?
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I still don’t think it is.
However, the worst thing we can do as a nation is take sides. There is no good choice between KKK and BLM. Or Neither-Nazis and Antifa. If we take sides we will become the Weimar Republic
 
No, it isn’t and various black leaders in the past would disagree.
The Black Power slogan was also criticized by Martin Luther King Jr., who stated that the black power movement “connotates black supremacy and an anti-white feeling that does not or should not prevail.”[75] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also disapproved of Black Power, particularly Roy Wilkins, then the NAACP’s executive director, who stated that Black Power was “a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan…the father of hate and mother of violence.”[11] The Black Power slogan was also met with opposition from the leadership of SCLC and the Urban League.[10]
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Anonkun said:
Tell me again how the deck is stacked against black people.
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Try to catch a cab wearing a black face.
Anonkun said:
This isn’t the 1960’s anymore. More often than not, violence will come from those espousing “Black Power” rhetoric, as we’ve seen from the recent riots.
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You’d have to verify that. Who is espousing ‘black power rhetoric’? ‘More often than not’? That’s a leap.
 
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josie_L said:
No, it isn’t and various black leaders in the past would disagree.
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Folks are still mulling over ‘Black power’? I think it is time to move on.

You should know how many black people had differences with MLK and the NAACP in the sixties. Conservatives love to cite Dr. King now but where were they when he needed them? People ought to re-read the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.
 
Anonkun said:
Once again, why the double standard?
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Traditionally, “White power” has been associated with the subjugation of people that were not white.

While “XXXXX Power” (insert some other group here) has been associated with supporting rights and political power for a group that had been denied such.
Anonkun said:
you will think Trump is racist no matter what he does.
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I think it is because of what he has done over time that people hold this belief.
 
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