Posted on 09/16/2015 6:57:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States, Senator Bernie Sanders declared before a few thousand college students yesterday, was founded “from way back on racist principles.” “That,” he added, after briefly apologizing for bringing the topic up in the first instance, “is a fact — we have come a long way as a nation.”
The latter of these two asseverations is not in doubt. Time was when a black American would be beaten, broken, and even skinned alive on the flimsiest of pretexts, while his tormenters were let free without charge.
Conservatives occasionally like to wonder aloud what might happen if this nation — or some part of it — were to be taken over by a monstrous and unflinching tyranny. They do not need to treat the question as a hypothetical: To read Ida B. Wells or Victoria Earle Matthews is to know the answer all too well. That Sanders should remind voters of this truth is admirable and necessary. That he should do so in the middle of an ideologically hostile crowd is even more so. One cannot enjoy redemption without guilt, and, on occasion at least, that guilt must be given a name. America has indeed “come a long way.”
It is unfortunate, however, that Sanders felt the need to attach his reminder to a dangerous falsehood. The American escutcheon is indeed sullied by original sin, but that sin is largely one of omission rather than commission. Flawed as it is, the United States was not founded on inadequate or abominable or “racist” principles, but upon extraordinary, revolutionary, and unusually virtuous propositions that, tragically, have all too often been ignored.
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Pouring poison into young skulls full of mush. Nice, Bernie.
BERNIE BERNIE..why not just tell all minorities that YOU are sorry for being wealthy???
Well he’s old...
He doesn’t have the brain cells he used to have, and his views are those from childhood.
Just ask the muslim in chief about views on childhood, he’ll tell you how it is to be black...(ahem, half black) how people picked on him, ohhhh for sad....NOT!!!!
It was the Democrat party that was founded on racist principles.
Dang !!!! and I thought religious freedom and high taxes played a part .
Bernie should put his money where his mouth is and go lynch himself.
BS knows this is BS ... but this is what communists do. They think (correctly, it seems) that the populace is so undeducated, so unwise that they’ll believe anything he says ... all of his lies (which also makes him a revered member of the socialist Democrat Party!)
shocking.
The scary thing is NOT that Sanders is out there trying to run for President under the banner of Socialism.
The scary thing IS the fact that people are supporting him - especially the useless Millenials.
Don’t trust anyone under thirty. The emo-hipsters WILL turn you in, because tolerance.
America was indeed founded on offensive [to him and those of his worldview] principles. Christian principles.
Seems the Dems have a very short memory when it comes to racism ,,, especially in the 1950s ,,, and then there’s Robt. Byrd of the KKK and many southern democrat governors who outwardly fought against civil rights in the 50s .
Now Hillary is all of a sudden sympathetic to women who claim sexual abuse ,,, you remember her claim ot the bimbo eruptions , dragging a dollar through a trailer park and that great rightwing conspiracy thing . Amazing !!!!
I’d like to see those “principals” spelled out so I know what he is talking about.
“Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers set foot upon this continent to pursue life, liberty, happiness, religious freedom, and to harass the hell out of the darkies.”
Funny I don’t remember that one.
What?
The seeds of the Abolitionist Movement were sown in America.
What is never mentioned is that the end of slavery on the planet began with white Christians. Not the Muslims, not the Africans, and not the Asians which all practiced slavery well into the 20th century - and some still today. The education on this issue is very faulty.
In Africa, in the 1990’s, over a half million Tutsis were massacred by the Hutus, based on the narrowness of their noses. (But they aren’t racist.)
Sanders perpetuates myths that support his leftist ideology, and the educational establishment follows suit.
The first political parties were Federalists and Republican-Democrats. The modern Dem party came in 1828.
Slavery has nothing to do with political parties. Its an economic issue and then thru time it becomes cultural.
Slaves were most needed to grow tobacco and cotton for export. Most slaves were sent to the Caribbean to grow sugar cane for export
I'm sure what passed for countries in Africa at the time were all perfect. I'm sure none of the tribal chieftains committed acts of war and killed or enslaved other people.
Sanders is why I hate leftists....or at least one reason out of many.
Who knew the Mayflower was a slave ship.
Is it also true the first slave owner was in fact a black man ? Were Blacks also involved in the early slave trade business ?
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