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is this not you arguing a narrative without the facts and statistics to support it?
Hmmmmmm, who should I believe? Don Lemon and Thomas Sowell (LMFAO that you actually presented HIM) or the protest organisers/leadersreally?
reigning it in as in defund the police? if so, I'll leave it to Thomas Sowell
What Defunding the Police Really Means
July 6, 2020
We know that police don’t keep us safe — and as long as we continue to pump money into our corrupt criminal justice system at the expense of housing, health, and education investments — we will never be truly safe.
That’s why we are calling to #DefundPolice and #InvestInCommunities — and in our new video, Black Lives Matter Managing Director Kailee Scales helps break down just how it works.
No, it's not alarmist bullshit. You've only chosen point 2 because it's that the only subjective one, because Kyle Rittenhouse, FBI warnings against far-right terrorism, Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Green ARE ALL VERIFIED WITH ESTABLISHED FACTS.much of the above is alarmist and baseless bullsh*t but I will focus on point 2... so, Obama being elected president in 2008 proves nothing as to the progress in race in the US? Obama being re-elected as president in 2012 proves nothing as to the progress in race in the US? but Trump getting elected in 2016 was a racist reaction in the US following a two term Black president?!
its not that Hillary was a thoroughly corrupt and unlikeable political figure... its not that Hillary was pro-war... its not that Hillary was a pathological liar... its not that there was a rise in populist policies which Trump and to a lesser extent Bernie rode... it wasn't that Hillary supported for NAFTA & TPP... its not that Hillary took the rust belt states (ie. the states around the Great Lakes) for granted and did little to no campaigning there and thus, lost Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania... it wasn't her private email server and lost emails... it wasn't Comey re-opening the FBI investigation a couple weeks prior to the election... it wasn't Hillary's flip-flopping on issues such as same sex marriage or whether she was a moderate or progressive... it wasn't that you have to go back to FDR when the Democrats enjoyed 3+ consecutive presidential terms etc.
By no means what-so-ever did I mean to suggest that all people who voted for Trump (in 2016) are racist. 100% there were other reasons that some voted for him. However, to suggest that racism did NOT play a significant part in a significant amount of people who voted for him, in his election is bullshit. The comments from trump, actions from trump at the time and from the past, should have raised enough concerns of his racism but rather than caution on who he was, there were a significant amount who loved what he was saying. Or are you suggesting I'm hearing things when I was hearing chants of "build the wall", at his rallies, on the back of his racist rants?
And by no means at all am I defending Hillary, she's a POS too.
I've provided data and stats at the top of this post of what you requested and that's from a recent data set of 1995 to 2017, so we're not going back to the era you described.the US has previously had serious issues with racism --> slavery, Jim Crow, the three-fifths compromise, Dred Scott v. Sandford, racial segregation etc. and there will always be ignorant, hateful, racist people... that cannot be changed... but I have yet to see a compelling argument as to systemic racism persisting in the US today
Then some of the laws that are trying to be passed in voting laws are designed to limit the voting access of parts of the population. Of course these lawmakes are not going to be stupid enough to say "don't let blacks vote" but they have designed it to specifically target those people without mentioning them by name.
I'd agree with that.the problem with the US now is just how politically partisan it has gotten and that has infected every issue with people taking a tribal position (ie. what position is my side taking instead of actually making your own mind up)... just consider the different reactions when it came to the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh by Dr Christine Blasey Ford and against then candidate Joe Biden by former aide Tara Reade
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