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Why I Fear America Could Enslave Black People Again
Time Magazine ^ | October 18, 2016 | Tavis Smiley

Posted on 10/19/2016 9:12:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump’s ‘Make America great again’ slogan and this Republican Congress's actions raise unanswered questions

Recently I appeared at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., for a talk entitled “Making America As Good As Its Promise.” So you don’t confuse the theme of my talk with the slogan of a particular presidential campaign, let me delineate the difference.

When I hear Donald Trump suggest that he wants to “make America great again,” it always triggers the same three questions in my head.

One: How is Trump defining “greatness”? I’m not sure he and I share an understanding of what makes a nation truly great. For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed, how you embrace equality as you labor for equity. Equality means that everyone gets the same in America, whether they need it or not. Equity says we commit to ensuring that all fellow citizens have the basic resources that will give them commensurate opportunities to contribute meaningfully to our society....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; blacks; blackvote; equality; fearmongering; radicalleft; slavery; tavissmiley; trump
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1 posted on 10/19/2016 9:12:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tavis Smiley is a racist, pure and simple!


2 posted on 10/19/2016 9:14:29 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2016!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed...

What a martyr.

I’d LOVE to see how he lives life and treats people when he’s not typing garbage.

I’ll bet it’s pretty lousy.


3 posted on 10/19/2016 9:14:56 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HilLIARy and the DNC have basically been enslaving black Americans for many years

and Obama has destroyed MANY MANY jobs, further impoverishing lots of black Americans (along with most of the rest of us)

Mr Trump may be able to start genuinely emancipating black people ... by helping create many new jobs and opportunities

a vote for HilLIARy is a vote for further impoverishment, alienation, exclusion, and rip-off of black Americans


4 posted on 10/19/2016 9:15:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero. news)
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To: Artcore

Time is still around?

Shocked.


5 posted on 10/19/2016 9:15:40 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here we go away with playing the “bring back slavery” card. Remember who was it Biden who stated in 2008 or 12 that Blacks would be put in “shackles and chains” again.


6 posted on 10/19/2016 9:15:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More faculty lounge circumlocution.


7 posted on 10/19/2016 9:16:03 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That headline is so over the top ridiculous that I couldn’t bring myself to actually read the article.


8 posted on 10/19/2016 9:16:39 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent MajorityStands With TRUMP!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an effing moron, the welfare state has ALREADY enslaved the black people and many other minority and majority groups as well...


9 posted on 10/19/2016 9:16:41 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alternative title? “Why I fear America will set the Tax Slaves Free.”


10 posted on 10/19/2016 9:16:50 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The average IQ is 85 for some groups. But, of course, many members of the group are below that average. And apparently they are employed as “journalists”. On the plantation. Of the old white lady who wants to move into the Big House.


11 posted on 10/19/2016 9:16:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone needs to tell Tavis what it means to be a great country. It means getting rid of violence, encouraging children to get an education and avoid crime, closing off the borders to stop drug cartels and illegal parasites, and respecting traditions. If that’s racist, then yes. I’m a racist.


12 posted on 10/19/2016 9:17:19 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Communism is slavery, Tavis.

Stop advocating for it.


13 posted on 10/19/2016 9:17:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy needs mental help!!!


14 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:11 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Insane - another case of a Black with “Stockholm Syndrome” - backing those who would actually enslave Blacks and having “concerns” that the guy who wants them to take their rightful place as responsible citizens as the oppressor....Blacks have more to fear from Travis than they do Trump.


15 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:18 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: dp0622

The author essentially says anything other than socialism and Communism is not great.

There is such deliberate misinformation in the article, that it is pure leftist propaganda. There is virtually no truth in it.


16 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:28 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
For me, it starts with how you treat the children

Hillary Clinton supports chopping babies into small pieces with a dull knife. Hillary Clinton supports poisoning babies with concentrated brine. Hillary Clinton supports stabbing babies in the back of the head with scissors. The ENTIRE DAMNED DEMOCRAT PARTY supports these things.

How 'bout you, Tavis?

Tavis???

Hello! Hello!

You out there, Tavis?

17 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:31 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: scheming, robotic liar.)
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To: GraceG

Re : Post # 9 ~

What an effing moron, the welfare state has ALREADY enslaved the black people and many other minority and majority groups as well...

Exactly. Go, Trump, GO!


18 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:34 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: dp0622

all he wants to do is steal ( involuntary taxes ) from people he dislikes and give the loot to people he likes

that’s not charity
that’s stealing


19 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:55 AM PDT by vooch ( y)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Make America racist again! Thanks for the heads up, Tavis... /s


20 posted on 10/19/2016 9:19:59 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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