Posted on 07/02/2015 11:48:39 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
" I would never trade the flag for a single job," said Young. "The problems we face don't have anything to do with the flag. The fact is that 93% of black people killed are killed by other black people. So black lives matter. Let us start believing that we matter."
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"The flag is a symbol that means a lot of things to a lot of people when you get to institutions like Washington and Lee University," claimed Young. "I admire that, I admire that. I admire the restoration of southern traditions in Washington and Lee University. The challenge for us is not to wipe out our past history but to learn to live together in the future."
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Politics aside, I have always liked Andrew Young. He has always loved the South. Years ago I saw an interview with him and the person conducting the interview asked him about the difference in the way blacks were treated in the South and in Chicago. He didn't take the bait. He said [paraphrased] the interviewer must understand. He was from the South. It is where his heart is. As for prejudice, it is not something exclusive to the South. It is everywhere. Even in Chicago. At no time did he infer all Southern whites hate blacks.
I have never heard him speak in terms of what blacks are owed from whites. It has always been what can be done we to make lives better.
In the early 70's he pushed for students to stay in school and get an education. He always said if you were in high school and wanting to drop out, come to his office, talk to him first. The dropout rate among blacks was sky high back then. They were the targets of his PSA's. But I had no doubt if I, an 18 yr old white girl from Chamblee, went his office and asked him to give me a reason to stay in school, he would have talked to me.
“Uncle-tom-house-boy APOSTATE-NON-A-REAL-BLACK-MAN!!!”
< /Leftist screaming>
I guess he’s not really a Negro.
There's cream in that coffee, but he's still blacker than Obama.
is this the guy who was mayor of Atlanta ???
Bernie Sanders of all people actually said the same thing in an interview with NPR. She asked him to weigh in on the black lives matter issue and he said “All lives matter..tell me what are you going to do about the 50% unemployment rate amongst young black men in the inner cities”... yes this was Bernie Sanders
The left & MSM does not dare try to “Uncle Tom” Andrew Young. There would be MAJOR pushback, especially in Atlanta.
Instead of presenting his opinion, MSM has chosen to ignore it.
There are two types of people in America: the producer, and the victim.
Victims want to stay victims. Because if they weren’t they’d have to actually produce, instead of playing the victims.
The percentage of victims in the black culture is probably hovering around 95%. That leaves only 5% who actually produce. Take a guess which category Mr. Young is in.
We had a black man kill a dozen, mostly white workers at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013, but that was then quickly explained away and consigned to the memory hole. It didn't advance the Leftist narrative.
GA House of Reps 1973-1977
Ambassador to UN under Jimmah 1977-1979
Mayor 1982-1990 (Sandwiched between to seperate Maynard Jackson terms)
In 1986 I was on a Greyhound bus leaving Chicago. The bus was almost empty and I was sitting 2 or 3 rows back from the front. The black driver was telling a black passenger sitting in the first row that he thought Chicago was the most segregated city in the country, and that he was going to retire soon and move back to Louisiana.
Wow, hell has frozen.
Ya suppose he’ll get Cosby’d now?
bkmk
Black lives don’t matter to black people, sadly.
Andrew is too old to be Vice President. He would have been a pretty good one though.
That’s because they wanted a riot in SC....and it didn’t happen. They got the Confederate flag to be ‘the boogie man’.
My dad bombed Japs. My SIL was born in Tokyo. Do I owe her something?
I’ll give $100,000 cash to every slave I own, then set them free. As for ancestors I have little knowledge of ... hell, deal with them.
From the 1000 meter perspective here, the only rasists I see are the whiner gibsmedats that the socialists have produced by implementing the ghetto system that the Nasis used. This fabricated underclass will be the first to be abandoned as the reich falls, but they have no champions to warn them. Andrew Young took a bold step today, but who in the ghetto is going to pay any credence?
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