Funny how he doesn't mention the GOP agenda for the entirety of Obama presidency was just insane frothing at the mouth rage and obstruction.
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Mitch McConnell thinks that because Obama was elected, Black folks are finally free, and that's why we don't need reparations.
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That's in the past. Just like the years of slavery and discrimination. /s
Granting black people equal rights is not reparations when they should have always had those rights.
Making a black man president hasn't solved any racial issues in this country either. And Mitch makes it sound like it was a CONCESSION of WHITE PEOPLE to make a black man president... for christs sakes.
Black racism still exists at every level, from school teachers to police officers to the president of the united states.
Whoa whoa- easy there Klu Klux Mconnell. You don't get to use "we" in reference to anything about resolving the issues of racism and racial inequality. You haven't done shit.
The turtle has been in the Senate since 1984. Take a guess how his party voted in 1987 when the bill for Japanese reparations came up.
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Here's a hint
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1987/h304
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1988/s525
EDIT:
Here's a hint
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1987/h304
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1988/s525
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Is this dude on some sort of "I'm a Fucking Dickhead Moron" lecture circuit? He can't shut the fuck up.
I'm guessing white people. Since he says "we" when talking about ending slavery and passing Civil Rights legislation. Telling he doesn't think of black people as "we".
If you don't include black people as part of the America "we" then you are excluding by race.Racism.
Bigger story is that Mitch is admitting that he made standing in the way of one of our country's efforts to right its original sin his on singular mission (Obama)...
What do you mean it's not clear how to compensate people? It's very simple, really. Cut the check. Read 'The Case For Reparations' by Ta-Nahesi Coates, an exhaustive essay that breaks down the argument for monetary reparations, charting the racist institutions that have spent centuries thwarting the upward mobility of black America and transferring their wealth to the hands of white people.
The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
www.theatlantic.com
There's actually not even a competition, it's him by a mile. Trump is racist fuckwit who's damaging our country right now but he could be president for twenty years and not do the damage McConnel has done in his tenure in the Senate.
I've read that piece. I'm literally relaying the thoughts of Americans. That's not an endorsement of those thoughts.What do you mean it's not clear how to compensate people? It's very simple, really. Cut the check. Read 'The Case For Reparations' by Ta-Nahesi Coates, an exhaustive essay that breaks down the argument for monetary reparations, charting the racist institutions that have spent centuries thwarting the upward mobility of black America and transferring their wealth to the hands of white people.
The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
The reality is as each year passes by it is harder to justify reparations. I personally don't feel like America ever did anything to say you know what we fucked up let us make up for it. Slaves worked and the country was built on their backs.
some white folk, i swear...
how hard is it to just acknowledge history and the fuckups of american past and to do something nice for a long-oppressed people? have some empathy for folk, y'know? instead it's all about hoarding the wealth and being on some legit endgame plan to ensure the rapture. like let's not forget how fucking evangelical and racist all that shit is. the white people will be saved!
how hard is it to just acknowledge history and the fuckups of american past and to do something nice for a long-oppressed people? have some empathy for folk, y'know? instead it's all about hoarding the wealth and being on some legit endgame plan to ensure the rapture. like let's not forget how fucking evangelical and racist all that shit is. the white people will be saved!
McConnell: "We've tried to deal with the original sin of slavery by [...] electing an African American president."
Also McConnell: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
Also McConnell: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
As long as the descendants of American slaves aren't made whole, it will never be hard to justify reparations. History is filled with an innumerable amount of of black people were and are owed wealth that would have been passed to them through generations, starting from the moment the first African man was enslaved on this soil to the last African American in this country whose station in life is of markedly less standing than it would be had their lineage not been victimized by the institutional racism upon which this country was founded and built.
When Trump is dead, there will probably be measures in place to keep people from pissing on his grave. But maybe that won't be the case with McConnell. Here's hoping.
I imagine Trumps tomb to be in gold, egyptian god-style and at the top of Trump tower.
Basically the ultimate tackiness, as he would've wanted it *sheds tear*