Posted on 08/25/2013 3:00:19 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The problem of poverty now can be equated to racial injustices at the time of the March on Washington 50 years ago, Newark Mayor Cory Booker said Sunday.
Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders were fighting against issues like income inequality as well as racial inequality, the Democrat said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Something clearly I learned from the generation before me and the civil rights movement is that the power of the people is greater than the people in power," said Booker, who's running for Senate in New Jersey. "The challenge I often see in America now is we get taught this idea that democracy is a spectator sport, and you can sit on your couch, root for your team, red or blue, but not realize that politics is a full-contact participatory endeavor."
The inability to do everything shouldn't stop Americans from trying to do something, the mayor added. For example, he said he's been able to work with Republican Gov. Chris Christie to help spur economic development in Newark.
"Politics is a zero-sum game," Booker said. "The spirit of King taught me that love multiplies and hate divides. We've got too much division going on in our politics. When people come together, we make remarkable results."
= confiscate more taxes from people who get up and go to work every day and hand it over to the moochers, bums, deadbeats, and parasites who comprise the Democrat party "base".
No thanks, Booker.
Beat it, you scumbag.
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