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'Fairly Infantile': Stacey Abrams Slimes Ben Carson Saying Society Shouldn't Get Offended at Everything
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Posted on 06/14/2020 5:39:02 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

George Stephanopoulos asks Ben Carson whether it's appropriate for President Trump to give his RNC acceptance speech on August 27th in Jacksonville, given that date is the 60th anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday" in that city, in which KKK members beat a largely black group of civil rights protesters.

Carson says that we need to "grow up" and stop being offended by everything. Invited to comment, Stacey Abrams calls Ben Carson's comment "fairly infantile."

View the video at the link.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2020election; bencarson; bloggers; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; florida; georgestephanopoulos; georgia; jacksonville; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presidenttrump; presstitutes; rnc; smearmachine; staceyabrams
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To: JBW1949

On 2nd thought, if the GOP had real smarts, they would start promoting this day every year reminding everyone that it was a Republican President that ended the demonkraps institution of slavery. That fact can’t be changed as much as the demonkraps, party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, abortion fo the innocents lie about all the racist moving into the GOP. ROFLMAO Hello, Robert Byrd? Joe “You Ain’t Black” Biden? Need more examples?


41 posted on 06/14/2020 6:16:38 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

I’m from the South (mountains of East Tennessee) Maybe I just didn’t pay attention to Juneteenth or something...


42 posted on 06/14/2020 6:16:51 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

That makes a lot of sense...Turn it back on them....


43 posted on 06/14/2020 6:20:24 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Has she lost weight?


44 posted on 06/14/2020 6:24:04 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What about Festivus ?
I hope Trumps not planning a rally then.


45 posted on 06/14/2020 6:25:40 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: JBW1949

You are in a great part of the country.

You didn’t hear about it because it is a state holiday in Texas. The Emancipation Proclamation was Jan 1, 1863. Texas was furthest slave state away ... the story is that Union General Granger arrived in Galveston on the June 18. On June 19th he publicly read federal orders that slaves in Texas were free. Not sure you ever visited Texas, but Texans have a great pride in their state history.


46 posted on 06/14/2020 6:25:57 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Viking2002

“‘Ax Handle Saturday’. Hmmmm. If I had to pick a new personal holiday for myself.........”

I would have guessed you’d go for +VLFBERHT+ (Ulfberht) Friday.

Gives you a three day weekend. ;)


47 posted on 06/14/2020 6:26:37 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: Rummyfan

Black Sit-ins began on August 13, 1960 when students asked to be served at the segregated lunch counter at Woolworths, Morrison’s Cafeteria and other eateries. They were denied service and kicked, spit at and addressed with racial slurs. This came to a head on “Ax Handle Saturday”, August 27, 1960.[28] A group of 200 middle aged and older white men (allegedly some were also members of the Ku Klux Klan) gathered in Hemming Park armed with baseball bats and ax handles. They attacked the protesters conducting sit-ins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jacksonville,_Florida#:~:text=Ax%20Handle%20Saturday,-Main%20article%3A%20Ax&text=Black%20Sit%2Dins%20began%20on,%22%2C%20August%2027%2C%201960.


48 posted on 06/14/2020 6:29:00 PM PDT by deport
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To: workerbee

I sincerely hope “black America” (whatever/whomever that means)
= = =

Would that be America at night?

When troublemakers come out. (Nothing good ever happens after midnight.)

And, to push the envelope, evolution has adapted a species to thrive in the dark, blend in, so to speak.

So who are we to argue with Evolution, settled science.


49 posted on 06/14/2020 6:32:36 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No, abrams, what’s infantile is being offended by everything.

Dr. Carson is quite correct.


50 posted on 06/14/2020 6:34:49 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

She’s had a few too many rodeos at the Golden Corral.


51 posted on 06/14/2020 6:50:27 PM PDT by Noumenon (There's a fight coming. Let's not lose.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
George Stephanopoulos asks Ben Carson whether it's appropriate for President Trump to give his RNC acceptance speech on August 27th in Jacksonville, given that date is the 60th anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday" in that city, in which KKK members beat a largely black group of civil rights protesters.

Partisan Media Shills update.


52 posted on 06/14/2020 6:50:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Love to, but I’m my own worst enemy with cutlery, for some reason.


53 posted on 06/14/2020 6:59:25 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Why should I walk into the great unknown, when I can sit here, and throw my bones?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Abrams is literally a fat nothing burger. All I see is someone with a big mouth and even bigger ego. Bad combo.


54 posted on 06/14/2020 7:01:37 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The MSM has a new formula at play.

Trump schedules event for date X.

Media digs around to find something bad historically about date X.

MSM reports on how insensitive Trump is to schedule event on date X.


55 posted on 06/14/2020 7:20:59 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: JBW1949

IIRC Juneteenth is mostly observed in Texas.


56 posted on 06/14/2020 7:36:20 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: dead

LOL


57 posted on 06/14/2020 8:38:11 PM PDT by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Carson is about 100 IQ points above Aunt Jemima.


58 posted on 06/14/2020 9:02:43 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: JBW1949

Ax me about dat.


59 posted on 06/14/2020 9:03:20 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Viking2002

Hmmm...

Perhaps the Mjölnir then?

Mjölnir Monday.


60 posted on 06/14/2020 9:10:42 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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