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.
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 still see Colin Powell with a lot of free time on his hands ...
Years ago I met him and shook hands. I was so proud of that. Not now.
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.
A black Republican who had it all and capitalizing on alleged racism in GOP, it’s a strange situation.
Next thing he has to say is ‘Obama, 2016!’ and call racist on everyone who states current resident is not eligible to run anymore.
colon powell crawls out of the woodwork now and then to say something negative about “his party” - yeah, but he never says anything bad about the Republicans... LMAO at this tool.
All that bad history with the Democratic Party (enslavement, Jim Crow, lynching, the KKK, etc.) and the ancestors of slavery flock to the Democrat Party without asking for an apology from it; why?
Why can't they see what the Republican Party did for them, and the influence they had and could have with this Party?
Do they think that one instance of Goldwater's lack of support for the Civil Rights Act actually compares to all that unapologetic Democratic Party history against minorities? Was it a good reason to abandon all that the Republican Party has done for civil rights since its beginning?
My theory is, socialism (basically encompassing slavery in itself) is more important to everyone in the Democratic Party than anything else.
For a person who made the rank of General, he seems to lack a lot in perception....I wouldn’t think that affirmative action led to his high status but when someone of that stature says something that stupid, one has to consider the possibility
Nobody asked him about the Democrats, just taking at face value that the Democrats could never, ever be racist again, though they were very racist at the time he described?
Powell is no different than the idiot Silicon Valley CEO’s, the idiot left wing Jews, etc. They have been elevated/insulated/isolated for decades, and are used to being “in charge” with NO REAL WORLD EXPOSURE. Their only point of reference is from many, many decades ago. The Siliconers’ ONLY point of reference is what they were taught by left wing professors. The Jews ONLY point of reference was what their parents taught them about the Robber Barrons or the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Powell’s last real world experience was on the streets of the Bronx in the 50’s or 60’s. After that they have all been completely isolated, and “in charge”. Very sad that this incredible nation must fall because of such silliness.
Now that he can no longer use Republicans for career advancement, he’s just showing his true colors and doing all he can to preserve and enhance the victim status of blacks in the US.