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Kansas City Mayor Suggests Racism After Missouri Governor Called Chiefs Parade Shooters ‘Thugs’
Breitbart ^ | 02/19/2024 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 02/19/2024 6:19:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) claims Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) used a racial “dog whistle” when he referred to the Chiefs parade shooting suspects as “thugs.”

The New York Post reported that Lucas made this assessment on KCUR’s Up to Date radio program.

Parson had reacted to Wednesday’s shooting by saying, “We can’t let some thugs just take over and ruin what happened.”

Lucas told KCUR, “I have respect for the governor. We get along well. I disagree strongly with how he would describe that situation. I certainly do think this was criminal activity. It was lawlessness, and I think that that’s troubling. But ‘thugs’ is a dog whistle in the most classic sense.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Missouri; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: disadvantagedyutes; donate2freerepublic; kansascity; mayor; shooters; thugs
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People lost their life's and this POS is worried about them being called thugs and screaming racist?
1 posted on 02/19/2024 6:19:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump to blame in 3...2...1...


2 posted on 02/19/2024 6:21:03 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’re no longer allowed to call thugs “thugs”? I’ve seen this term applied to thugs of all races.


3 posted on 02/19/2024 6:22:49 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Someone needs to ask what her definition of “ thug “ is.


4 posted on 02/19/2024 6:22:52 AM PST by Cautious Optimism
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To: ChicagoConservative27

‘Thug’ was the name of a criminal gang along the old Silk Road between India and Pakistan. It has nothing to do with race............................


5 posted on 02/19/2024 6:22:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They can’t call thugs as “thugs”?


6 posted on 02/19/2024 6:24:02 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well KC checked the box on diversity when they elected that mayor......and police chief as well for that matter.

Isn’t that really the most important thing?


7 posted on 02/19/2024 6:24:07 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

GMTA


8 posted on 02/19/2024 6:24:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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I am upset that they are called thugs too. They should be called feral urban thugs.


9 posted on 02/19/2024 6:24:34 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any human being shooting another human being IS A THUG!!


10 posted on 02/19/2024 6:25:31 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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LOL, so now “thug” is synonymous with black?


11 posted on 02/19/2024 6:27:10 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Black Thugs


12 posted on 02/19/2024 6:27:54 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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LOL, so now “thug” is synonymous with black?

Every day in every way, Democrats show us they are the real racists.

13 posted on 02/19/2024 6:29:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope hizzoner is not saying that “thug” is another term for young black male.


14 posted on 02/19/2024 6:29:21 AM PST by Romulus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That guy is really going off - seems more concerned regarding his perceived ‘microaggression’ than the mass shooting committed by his homies.

At some point people may start to realize that ‘Universal Voting’ is not such a good idea...


15 posted on 02/19/2024 6:29:27 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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I suggest that the mayors of Kansas City, Chicago, and New York have a problem with racism. ALL THREE OF THESE “mayors” are themselves RACIST!

Simply because they are ALL black, they see EVERYTHING as racist. F*cking Losers ALL THREE!!!!


16 posted on 02/19/2024 6:30:15 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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"LOL, so now “thug” is synonymous with black?"

THAT is exactly the point - and that idiot mayor doesn't even realize it.

17 posted on 02/19/2024 6:30:32 AM PST by jackibutterfly (We have a God Who loves us, and there's nothing we can do about it. Yes!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Screw this POS...Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson used the word thug properly and accurately

Any gang committing murder and shooting kids fits the definition of “thug” a word which originated in india as “thugee.”

Thugee:

Thuggee (UK: /θʌˈɡiː/, US: /ˈθʌɡi/) are actions and crimes carried out by Thugs, historically, organised gangs of professional robbers and murderers in India. The English word thug traces its roots to the Hindi ठग (ṭhag), which means ‘swindler’ or ‘deceiver’. Related words are the verb thugna (’to deceive’), from the Sanskrit स्थग (sthaga ‘cunning, sly, fraudulent’) and स्थगति (sthagati, ‘he conceals’).[2] This term, describing the murder and robbery of travellers, was popular in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, especially the northern and eastern regions of India.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee


18 posted on 02/19/2024 6:30:33 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A sure sign that the speaker has no brains and no argument is when they use “racist” or “phobia” in their silly arguments.


19 posted on 02/19/2024 6:32:19 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Screw the people who voted for that POS.


20 posted on 02/19/2024 6:32:31 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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