Posted on 08/04/2019 7:37:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit. He’s actually doing something more dangerous.
For much of our history, the soup was deadly and uncontained, spewing radiation that led to the enslavement, terrorization, murder and oppression of African-Americans. One hundred years ago this summer, it erupted on the streets of Washington, leaving dozens dead. The president of Howard University narrowly escaped being lynched. The murders, beatings and threats erupted in countless places during the first 200 years of American life. To visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture is to discover that the violence and mistreatment is beyond count, but not beyond imagination.
Yet something good happened over the last 50 years. America started to get control over the dangerous radiation. We erected a containment building made up of laws; we passed statutes making the abuse and mistreatment of people by virtue of their race a crime. More important, we began enforcing the laws we already had. It was long a statutory crime to kill another human being; it just wasn’t against the law in practice to kill a black person in many places. The rights to vote and to equal treatment sounded muscular on paper, but they were weaklings in much of America. Slowly, slowly that began to change, through progress at ballot boxes and jury boxes, in police squad rooms and classrooms.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Where is the barf alert?
Why would Trump listen to Comey the Corrupt about anything? Even about the time of day.
With the Left the wrongs of even the distant past are evergreen ... unless they were committed by commies etc and then they don’t want to talk about them.
Comey and Obama certainly failed in that mission.
Perhaps if Mr Comey hadn’t been chasing windmills and covering up for Democrat corruption he could’ve done something about racism as head of the justice department.
As it is Mr. Comey - STFU
Lock him up, lock him up.
The Slimes publishing Comey on this looks like trolling.
Yes please do Mr. President and start by throwing this bum Comey into Leavenworth for the rest of his life.
TLDR
GFY, JC
Why do we allow this criminal and this genocide promoting publication to lecture us? The NYT hired Sarah Jeong.
And then give a historical account of the demonicRAT roots of The KKK and white supremacy.
TSDV
Note to Comey, Donald Trump has multiple stands against racism throughout his public life.
Donald Trump is the furthest thing from a racist
Hey!
Jim!
How about some justice for Hillary you big weasel?
Commie is spouting off now that he senses he’s untouchable.
Have we heard from Brennan yet? He used to be so vocal.
Have we heard from Brennan yet? He used to be so vocal.
Mr. Comey, please go back to where your ancestors came from. (and hope & pray that there is no extradition from the USA there)
I think the name James Comey is self-evident that what follows is barf inducing.
A redundancy, if you will
Mr. Comey you have the right to remain silent.
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