Posted on 03/08/2015 11:50:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell told ABC News’ George Stephanopolous that he still sees a “dark vein of racism” in his party and America at large, part of the country’s protracted transformation from its institutionalized racist past.
“I still see it in the Republican Party,” Powell said. “And I still see it in other parts of our country. You don’t have to be Republican to be touched by this dark vein.”
“America is still going through this transformation from where we were 50, 60 years ago,” Powell said. “You have to remember it was just 60 or 70 years ago that we still had poll taxes, that we still had literacy tests in order to vote, that voting places were only open two days a week for African Americans. So we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.”
Powell noted that his grandchildren’s generation was largely untouched by the days of institutionalized racism and instead valued diversity, but that the country must continue to hold its institutions to account.
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I hold the usurper accountable for today’s upswing in racism.
Powell’s assertion is an outrageous slander.
The only way he could make such an false claim is that he does not know any Republicans and does not attend any Republican events.
By making his remarks, Powell has demonstrated that he seeks to divide people based on lies. He should be ashamed of himself for doing so.
He is apparently not aware of democrat party history.
“Powell said. “You have to remember it was just 60 or 70 years ago that we still had poll taxes, that we still had literacy tests in order to vote, that voting places were only open two days a week for African Americans. So we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.””
Why should voting places be open longer for people of one race than any other race?
Why is it wrong to ask that people demonstrate a financial interest in a community(poll tax) before voting away its money?
Why is it outrageous to ask that someone demonstrate they have access to knowledge about the man/woman they are voting for?(reading test) Furthermore how do you even vote if you can’t read? Maybe I come form a poor western state but every voter form I’ve ever seen is written...
Promoting him to CJCS was the other mistake Ronald Reagan made.
who?
Colin Powell will go to his grave biting the hand that fed him. His entire esteemed career derives from preferential treatment based on his skin color. Yes, Colin, America sucks.
And what party did it, Powell? And what party pushed against it, Powell?
Blaming Republicans seems rather feeble, Powell.
Colin matches his name perfectly because he looks like a giant turd, acts like one too
Is he finally renouncing the affirmative action that put four stars on his shoulders?
I had a red necker cousin named Colin. This is an abuse of a perfectly good red neck name.
Oh noooooo that was just faaaaaaaaaair (even if he had the Frito Lay factory on his shoulder).
I still see Colin Powell with a lot of free time on his hands ...
That was Daddy Bush, not Reagan.
Years ago I met him and shook hands. I was so proud of that. Not now.
“I still see Colin Powell with a lot of free time on his hands ...”
Yep a very inconsequential guy these days. Get some Leftist Reporter to toss up a softball and pull the race card for a headline. The man is beyond deplorable.
So we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.”
How is it exactly that we still have a long way to go to defeat racism and discrimination?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed 51 years ago. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is 50 years old. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 passed almost 50 years ago. Government and colleges and Corporate America have done a lot in terms of affirmative action to recruit minorities and women into their ranks.
What more needs to be done? What laws can Congress pass which will solve remaining problems? What are the remaining problems?
If anybody wants to talk about the conditions of our inner cities, you lost me there. So many of the social pathologies found in ghetto culture are not the result of racism, but are rather self inflicted wounds.
In ghetto life, too many young men join youth gangs. That is an unfortunate choice. Too many choose not to do well in school, deriding it as acting white. That too is a bad choice.
There is a toxic brew of gang activity, drugs, and the baby mama culture in the inner cities. All of these are driving the poverty found among too many blacks. NOT racism.
But due to political correctness, we aren’t allowed to talk much about the bad choices in life which too many people make.
I would add that there are white people who also are into drugs, crime, and having babies without a husband, and making bad life choices. It’s not racism.
Yet the loudest voices tell us that racism is still a problem.
I want them to tell us specifically what issues of racial discrimination remain. And what the remedy for that is.
“He is apparently not aware of democrat party history.”
I think it’s fairly naive to believe racism will ever go away completely. It is only human nature to favor ones own kin, invariably some people will always take that instinct too far.
In the end as with just about any problem of human individuals there is no choice but to make peace with an imperfect success rate.
That said I was watching a video of MLK the other day on C-span and i couldn’t help but noticed how his dream to take race baiting out of politics has never been attempted by the Democratic party that instead has taken race-baiting to an entirely new level.
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