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You know, it’s really concerning to me that the Democrats haven’t just gone ahead at this point and said, ‘We’re doing this on our own in terms of getting a commission together to explain to the American people how we allowed the insurrection to take place in the Capitol.’ I think that really needs to move forward swiftly,
I think that as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue. We have to figure out how to get every American a place at the table in this democracy but how to separate Americanness, America, from whiteness.”
“Until we can confront that and talk about that, this is really going to continue,”
I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with [expletives] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases, just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing, because essentially the message was clear, it was: ‘This is my country. This is not your country. I own this,
In most cities, the demonstrations were peaceful.
Demonstrators in some cities were shoved and pummeled with batons. They were sprayed with chemicals, their stinging eyes soothed by milk. They were struck with rubber bullets that left bruises the size of baseballs.
In some cities, groups ransacked businesses, set buildings ablaze. Flames tore through a police precinct in Minneapolis. Flames enveloped police squad cars. Flames raced through the basement of a 200-year-old church.
Symbols of a nation’s racist past were toppled, crushed, defaced and beheaded.
Because, you know, the Trump voters who are not going to get onboard with democracy, they’re a minority. You can marginalize them long-term. But if we don’t take the threat seriously, then I think we’re all in really bad shape.”
“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski added, “Totally agree.”
“According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today,” Biden said. “Not ISIS. Not Al Qaeda. White supremacists.”
Biden revisited the massacre of the black community in Tulsa to show the long history of white supremacists in the country — comparing it to the clash between the protesters in Charlottesville.
“What happened in Greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism, with a through-line that exists today,” he said. “Just close your eyes and remember what you saw in Charlottesville four years ago on television.”
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
a reply to: CptGreenTea
Yeah and what’s that exactly because blacks kill more blacks in one day than police do all year. Add that to the fact that most black people shot by cops most likely deserved it.
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
a reply to: CptGreenTea
Yeah and what’s that exactly because blacks kill more blacks in one day than police do all year. Add that to the fact that most black people shot by cops most likely deserved it.
Holly crap your lack of knowledge about why that is is astounding.
A good start would be to look up city building plans from the 60's.
Then maybe you can grasp the gravity of the situation.
I understand not liking the BLM organization, but the term was not created out of racism towards whites, but rather to say "we matter too".