Posted on 08/25/2014 8:27:20 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
GWEN IFILL: (snip) "But also more important is watching what's happening behind it. There's a new civil rights movement which has sprung up. We've been looking back 50 years for the last couple of months, the 50-year signings of bills and laws. These young people on the streets, these young people who've created a social media movement around Michael Brown, they're not saying, "Pass a law." They're saying, "Enforce the current ones."
They're not saying, "We're going to wait for a single, singular leader to tell us which way to go." They're saying, "We're going to lead ourselves." And there is something which we can't miss in what feels different to me than Trayvon Martin, it feels different to me than Rodney King; these are all situations in which justice was questioned. But it feels to me like Americans, not just African Americans, are picking themselves up and saying-- the first pictures we saw out of Ferguson, the common response was, "Is that America?" And I think people are saying, "Let's address that. Let's address ourselves, not expect some person to figure it out."
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The "New Skewl" civil rights movement is who let the dogs out where a thug who assaulted a cop starts riots where fatherless 4 th generation welfare gangstas loot big screen TVs, Nike Air Jordans, hair extensions and 12 packs of forty and Mad Dog 20/20.
This is what the civil rights movement has devolved to and it is a farcical parody of the movement Dr King gave his life for. Gwen Ifill should be ashamed of herself
Rights to demand, "Gibsmedat?"
I think not.
Of course not, Gwen.
They're saying "We're gonna loot these wide-screen TV sets by ourselves, then grab some free liquor and have a party."
Clearly that's the essential nature of this "New Civil Rights Movement" that has sprung up. But please keep on fooling yourself, Gwen, so that we can continue to laugh at you.
What Americans saw in Ferguson is Thuggery and Lawlessness, it is not “a new civil rights movement”.
Actually, that is exactly what the “new civil rights movement” is all about. The right of thugs to commit crimes and assaults on “the Man” with impunity and riot and loot when their basic human right to criminality is infringed upon. Society has to learn to take it’s beat down stop complaining
No Gwen! This is a SNIVEL Rights Movement. I don’t get to lynch a cop so I am going to snivel about it!
civil rights for thugs and uncivil looters!
judge them by their character, please, not the color of their skin
Oh, I thought it was the
“YT, donchoo DARE defend yourself” movement.
There are some exceptions, though.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."-- Thomas Jefferson
Rampant abortion, crime, lawlessness, fatherless homes, respect for society, disregard for education etc....
That is the solution. The "civil rights" movement needs to be rebalanced to apply to everyone not just certain minorities. the "knockout game", "wilding", and other acts of aggression against people and property are not civil rights.
And there is something which we can’t miss in what feels different to me than Trayvon Martin, it feels different to me than Rodney King; these are all situations in which justice was questioned.
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The case is only at the Grand Jury stage so the courts or ‘justice system’ that set off the Trayvon or Rodney King reaction are not even yet involved. Honestly I haven’t a clue what she is talking about.
That’s an interesting quote from LBJ. I hate to use the word but I think it’s important to clarify:
Was LBJ quoted by Ronald Kessler as saying, “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years” or “I’ll have those Negroes voting Democratic for the next 200 years”?
Because the former is clearly racist but the latter is not necessarily, especially at the time. But both variations fit, given the number of asterisks in the quote.
Does anyone know? Does anyone have the book?
What America also saw in Ferguson is race baiters and the media jumping to a conclusion that has no basis in reality. The logical outcome of what the screamers are asking for would be blacks policing themselves.
How's that working for Africa?
What I saw in Ferguson is the strongest possible affirmation that policemen SHOULD do their jobs and should not be condemned before the facts are known. I've never felt so strongly about the need for law and order and not short circuiting or pre-guessing the judicial process.
Gwen is a special combination of ignorant and stupid.
The long term outcome of Ferguson is going to hinge on whether the physical evidence and ballistics show Brown was charging Wilson at the time the fatal shots were fired.
Gwen is betting against that. Given how little of that part has made it into the public sphere she probably isn’t even aware of it. Or how stupid of a bet she’s making.
It’s very similar to Trademark: where the narrative was undemined and made irrelevant by the fact that he was beating Zimmerman’s head into the ground when Zimmerman pulled the trigger.
If anything Gwen (and a lot of other people) should be scared of the bet they’re making: if the underlying facts of their narrative don’t play out as expected they either skink away with reduced credibility OR the double down on a very inflammatory and inciteful lie ... with predictable results.
He didn’t say “Negroes”. LBJ was a racist.
I saw that At the stupid mtv awards BS last night. A moment of silence for a young guy who probably assaulted two older people of authority for no reason. Basically, a violent thug.
Imagine. What if Brown were a white skinhead thug, and he attacked a black shop owner who tried to stop him stealing blunts? Then after he got away, he and his skinhead friend attacked a black police officer who tried to stop them.
Would The Justice Brothers have raced to Missouri? Maybe, for the shop owner and the cop!
Would black entertainers have given those skinheads a blessed moment of silence? Never.
a whole new generation to be fleeced...
It may look like looting and destruction, but it’s a new social movement or something.< /stupidthingsliberalsbelieve >
Your version is what I ‘remembered’ (or most often quoted), even though it was before my time .......
I remember him. He was a very nasty man.
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