Charles Barkley Drops Scorching Hot Take on Confederate Statues — The Left Is Going to Hate It

Barkley has always been level headed. He makes the left mad quite often.

 

I'll go with what Robert E. Lee had to say. You can have...Charles Barkley.

 

I think he did a great thing...

 

Let's not forget the "meat" of his message (See OP). In my opinion, it's not just for African Americans. All Americans deserve equal opportunity. Not equality of condition.

 

The Democratic Party is synonymous with:

Indian Wars

Slavery

Jim Crow

Segregation

Separate But Equal

The Civil War

The Clan

Lynchings (anti-lynching plank was defeated four times in the Democrat Party platform)

Poll Taxes

Against the Civil Rights Act

Democrat voters killed a president and a civil rights leader

Forced internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II

Domestic terrorism

Church bombings and murders

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Your party has nominated and elected as President a man who reversed the desegregation of the Federal Government and showed the Klan biopic "Birth of a Nation" in the White House.

Your party elected to the Presidency a man who appointed a Klan member and lawyer for the Alabama KKK to the Supreme Court who later...used his hatred of the Catholic Church to create the "wall of separation" that heretofore had never existed in the First Amendment.

Your party elected to the Presidency a man who held up as his mentors and heroes two of the biggest segregationist bigots his state ever produced...Orval Faubus and J. William Fulbright. The latter of which has a Congressional scholarship named after him and had the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to him.

Your party elected as Governor a man who tried to deploy the National Guard to block integration of your schools...and it took a Republican President deploying the 101st Airborne to make you stand down.

Your party had as it's Senate Majority leader a Grand Kleagle of the KKK who besides never disavowing his Klan membership...used the term "white ni**er" several times on national Television and once famously said:

also...

Wanna have some fun, ask a liberal if Dred Scot was handed down by a liberal or conservative Supreme Court? Ask them if John F. Kennedy signed Eisenhower’s 1957 civil rights.

 

How arrogant can you be! I am an Independent and have voted for BOTH Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates over the years. I last voted Republican for Romney-Ryan! And, you have an extremely distorted view of American history. You have selectively taken quotes and references out of context with respect to the events in question. There were Democratic voices that you completely ignore, and deceptively omit. You deserve little of my time. The only example I will give you is perhaps one of the most significant in my lifetime and that was the stand-off between Kennedy and Wallace. It was President KENNEDY, by Executive Power, as the Commander-in-Chief over the Armed Forces, that forced the Racist Democratic Governor of Alabama to stand down and let the African American children attend school.

You are blinded by ignorance and hatred. Booker T. Washington's words are as relevant in our time as they were in his. The South exploited people. Trump did the same thing. He exploited those he had hired illegally to build his hotels. Rank discrimination. He could have hired minorities (citizens) and paid them the minimum wage. Trump was sued successfully by the Federal Government on at least one occassion for this practice.

Trump disparaged the Kahn family, muslims whose son had been decorated for his wartime service. Certainly, a few muslims living here are potential terrorists. But there are significantly more Nazi's living here that, without a doubt, are extremely violent and are terrorists just like their father, Hitler. These Nazis are Enemy Combatants against the American people, and like their muslim counterparts, should be tried in Military Courts. There were no "Constitutional Rights" at Nuremberg.

I was hoping that Trump would speak about his plans for infrastructure at the press conference in Trump Tower. But, instead, he said that there were "very fine people" on both sides at Charlottesville. Nazis are not "very fine people." A number of Republicans in the Senate and House rightly denounced him. And, Republican Senator Bob Corker commented correctly that Trump "does not have the competence to be President."

At least Bannon was fired. The new Chief of Staff did his duty to America. But Bannon's exit was only the latest in a long string of departures. The chaos at the White House may not have ended, however. One Republican Senator said that "Trump will be Trump," meaning that the President will continue in his erratic ways, ignoring most sound advice and relying on his own uniformed judgment.

 

Well Mr. Davis asked me to come over here and put in my two cents... I agree with what Charles Barkley said and I don't get into politics... It gets hot enough on here without going there... Been there... Done that for to long... Brother Glen

 

After rereading my post, I can see how you thought I was talking about you. I wasn't, when I say "Your Party" I was talking to the comic strip at the top of my post, not you.

I will name you if my comment is directed towards you. That is common courtesy. I don't know the people here enough to really know their voting history.

BTW... I assume you were talking to me, you didn't name a person in your post whom it was directed. I was the only person that had Booker T Washington in my post, so I think it was safe to assume you were talking to me. If I assumed wrong, I apologize, and would you please list who you were talking to.

 

The people there were on a permit obtained by a white supremacist. If you were there with them and benefitting from their permit then you are willfully choosing to walk with them and I don't think they are fine people for doing that.

 

Such was the case on what the nation of islam called the "million man march" some years ago. Were they all bad men who marched, favoring hate and separatism and calling judaism a "gutter religion" [Farrakan]?

 

Yeah, probably.

 

LowOil made up that stuff about Kennedy--but you didn't have the courage to call him out on it! And I made nothing up about Trump. He is a pathological liar as his Tweets and other comments show. He is not racially sensitive. Are you??

Trump meant those Nazis were very fine people. There were men who attended one of his innagural parties that wore Nazi medals on their dinner jackets. He and his party planners were influenced no doubt, by his pick, White Nationalist, Steve Bannon. Inexcusable!

Trump's lies are multiplying just like Nixon's did. Congress didn't like his obstructing of justice. Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey. He will resign in disgrace when Congress decides to impeach him when it hears Mueller's Criminal Complaint, or if Trump fires him.

 

Thanks for clarifying that you were talking to me. I don't know why all the Trump stuff, I didn't vote for him, just as I didn't vote for Hillary. I did vote.

Now lets address the parts where you call me a liar.

Did John F. Kennedy (D) sign Eisenhower’s (R) 1957 civil rights act bill? Lets see...

Civil Rights Act of 1957 - Wikipedia

Yes Kennedy did NOT vote for it. But Senate Republicans voted 43-0 for it and Senate Democrats voted 29-18 for it. Kennedy was one of the 18 that did NOT vote for it.

Just exactly where did I lie?

Have a good day.

P.S. Keep calling me a liar and you will get to meet "not nice"
me.

 

We sure do.

 

I am not angry. Just stating the facts. Honest people do not become hostile.The Nazis were welcome at his innagural ball. Get on Google and prove this to yourself! This friendliness toward them, I believe, means that he had them in mind as some of the "very fine people" at Charlottesville.

 

I think the "fine people" were historic groups such as the SCV and Daughters of The Confederacy.

 

Check out my first reply to you! You denied that Kennedy was a true American hero. But he defied Wallace and began the integration of Alabama schools! Name a Republican governor of the time that was for integration!!

You said, "you will get to meet not nice me." Perhaps you are a foreigner, and know neither good English, nor accurate American history. Or, perhaps you are just uneducated. I don't really care!