What does that have to do with right wingers showing up with signs that say "Diversity = White genocide" or Trump saying Mexico is sending rapists to the US?...Is if people started paying attention to Dr. King's words:
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They can't have that.
"Leftist politicians"?? DeSantis and his rants on woke are really all about living together as brothers....right?We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Today's leftist politicians can't have this - They keep stoking the fires of hate, malcontent and division.
If Dr. King was right, they cannot be.
Let us side with Dr. King.
My two cents.
It is always suspicious when someone takes a quote out of context...here is what he said..View attachment 74982
The "uniter".
The optimist in me says that when Joe Biden declared that, not too many people fell for it.
The pessimist in me says that some, however, did.
Doesn't change the meaning at all.It is always suspicious when someone takes a quote out of context...here is what he said..
“Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street,” Pres. Biden said. “They’re going to put you all back in chains.”
Your opinion. In mine it does. Unchaining banks? In context this was after the economic meltdown of 2007. It was mostly a white audience. His rhetoric was not about the physical slavery of 1860. In my opinion he was talking about the middle class chained to the financial industry's mistakes....Doesn't change the meaning at all.
Thanks for clarifying my point.
That's a stretch.Your opinion. In mine it does. Unchaining banks? In context this was after the economic meltdown of 2007. It was mostly a white audience. His rhetoric was not about the physical slavery of 1860. In my opinion he was talking about the middle class chained to the financial industry's mistakes....
You think it is racist to list Obama's political advantages? He is articulate. He is bright. He didn't have a lot of baggage as some candidates do (meaning he's clean) and he is a good looking guy.That's a stretch.
Especially given that Joe Biden has made similarly egregious remarks in the past:
" You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
That's probably about middle-class economics also, no?
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You're actually defending that? Really?You think it is racist to list Obama's political advantages? He is articulate. He is bright. He didn't have a lot of baggage as some candidates do (meaning he's clean) and he is a good looking guy.
Compare him to any other candidate...and especially any other African American candidate like Jesse Jackson, Alan Keyes, Kanye West, Ben Carson, Cory Booker, Deval Patrick...etc...
Your opinion of racist remarks is interesting....was Trump being a racist when he claimed Obama was born in Africa or that illegal immigrants from Mexico were rapists?
I disagree that it was racist....it wasn't. In your opinion it was...but in the opinions of African American voters it wasn't....Joe got 90% of the African American vote.You're actually defending that? Really?
Is that how you see black people? That any one of us that is "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking" is "storybook"? If the answer is yes, please explain. Don't hold back.
I hope for your own sake that you're just defending Biden at all costs, and that you don't actually agree with what he said. Sad for you if you do.
I said it was egregious. I stand by that. Getting a lot of black votes doesn't change that - People vote for people who say dumb stuff all the time. That's why we had a Biden-Trump election, and a Trump-Clinton election, and on and on.I disagree that it was racist....it wasn't. In your opinion it was...but in the opinions of African American voters it wasn't....Joe got 90% of the African American vote.
You pretend to be offended because your priority is anti-Biden at any and every opportunity.
So you think 90% of black voters ignored that Biden is a racist and voted for him anyway?I said it was egregious. I stand by that. Getting a lot of black votes doesn't change that - People vote for people who say dumb stuff all the time. That's why we had a Biden-Trump election, and a Trump-Clinton election, and on and on.
Who said I was offended? And unless you read minds, how would you know if I was "pretending" or not?
So, do you agree with what Joe Biden said? Is that your view of black people?
Or do you prefer not to answer those questions?
You dodged the question: Do you think a black person being "articulate, bright, good looking" is "storybook"?So you think 90% of black voters ignored that Biden is a racist and voted for him anyway?
Are you offended by Joe's remarks? Do you know what Joe was thinking? Can you read minds?
I agree with Joe...Obama is articulate, bright, good looking...a great candidate.
I think the qualities Obama brought to the campaign were storybook....just what a campaign manager would want.You dodged the question: Do you think a black person being "articulate, bright, good looking" is "storybook"?
That's what Biden said. Do you agree with it?
Awaiting the next dodge.
Biden was speaking about Obama...not a generic African American candidate. My answer was direct and is my opinion.View attachment 74988
The fact that you can't bring yourself to answer the question directly and honestly should tell you something.
Now, about that need for a slight Indian accent...
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That's not what Biden said, and you know it.Biden was speaking about Obama...not a generic African American candidate. My answer was direct and is my opinion.
I think the qualities Obama brought to the campaign were storybook....just what a campaign manager would want.