Hillary Fan Philly Mayor: Black Lives ‘Haven’t Mattered From 1600s Up Until Now’

Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Such a shame that current Philadelphia Mayor, Democrat Jim Kenney—and Hillary Clinton for that matter—weren’t around for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Back in 1776, Kenney and Clinton obviously would have been much more enlightened, morally-advanced voices than benighted hacks like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin . . .

On today’s Morning Joe, Kenney—who endorsed Hillary early in the primary season—was asked about the prevalence of Black Lives Matter voices and concerns to be heard at this week’s DNC. He responded with a condemnation of law enforcement, the court system and even the Declaration of Independence. Kenney declared that black lives “haven’t mattered in our country over the history of law enforcement and in the criminal courts and in the way people have been treated from the 1600s up until now. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, it was all men are equal: well, all white men with land were created equal.”

View the video here.

[butlerweave]

OK , yawn

[IrishBrigade]

Recall when tens of thousands of white lives died for the betterment of black lives.

careful; you’ll get the slavery-had-nothing-to-do-with-the- civil-war crowd all riled up...

[Kenton]

This morning, there are 2 black dead "teens" and 16 wounded at a Fort Myers nightclub, shot up by other negroes at a "teen party" where "teens" up to age 27 were admitted.

Of course, the MSM will pay little attention to it, because they already got the word from "Black Lives Matter" that these black lives "ain't who they be talking about".

This isn't an issue, because this doesn't involve any evil white people. It's just run-off-the-mill intramural urban black genocide and the racist honkie press just needs to shut up about it.

[cymbeline]

“Greenwood is a neighborhood”

Interesting story. I don’t think any of our races lacks the intelligence to be civilized. Individual thinking is influenced by the society the individuals live in. Leaders emerge. Followers follow.

Being “civilized” or you might say westernized doesn’t mean being perfect. White societies, to put it back into racial terms, have done terrible things. So have all the other races and cultures.

I believe America suffers from too may citizens being unemployed. I think Trump is the best one to help with that.

[onedoug]

Black Lives Matter when they’re decent. They don’t when they’re indecent. Just like the rest of us.

[elpadre]

I can’t disagree that slavery was cause not the cause - but the end result was that tens of thousands of white lives died for the betterment of black lives.

[demkicker]

Very well said!

[GOPJ]

They haven’t mattered to Democrats, Jim. They’ve mattered to Republicans since 1854.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

[hal ogen]

This pathetic DIM loser mayor is typical of the LIB-LOSERs who infect our country. They guy will probably spend time in prison before his pathetic career is over.

[GOPJ]

Note: As reader pfg has astutely pointed out, in January, a man shot a Philly policeman multiple times at point-blank range, saying he did it in the name of ISIS. At the time, Kenney claimed the shooting had nothing to do with Islam. “It is abhorrent,” he said. “It does not represent the religion in any shape or form or any of the teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers, and it has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.” The Philly police union recently issued a statement condemning the Clinton convention for inviting relatives of those killed by police but not relatives of police killed in the line of duty by black protesters. Kenney’s slur of police this morning will surely add fuel to that fire.

You're right - the guy's a few cards short of a deck...