Posted on 06/03/2020 10:12:13 AM PDT by Stravinsky
In Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, a young protester told a reporter that she just didn’t think voting is “how change happens.”
“They’ve been telling us to do that for so long,” she added, “and we’ve done it — and look at everything that’s still going on.”
Fury over the cruel death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody, combined with fear of a deadly virus and its painful economic impact, make this a dark, dizzying moment in our national life. But African-Americans shouldn’t feel hopeless, because the black vote does matter — it has never mattered more. It is at the heart of the fight to take back America.
The biggest story of 2020 politics is hard to ignore. But somehow it is being ignored.
The black vote now defines American politics.
...
But beating Mr. Trump tops the list. For black voters, the prospect of four more years of this administration is about more than politics.
It’s personal.
It is a reaction born of real fear — of the racism that led a white man to shoot Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and a white police officer to press his knee into the neck of George Floyd in Minnesota, of the racism that every day results in more black people dying of the coronavirus. African-Americans see this, and they see a president who does nothing to stop it.
Contrary to the image created by news coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests, 43 percent of black voters are moderates. A quarter identify as conservatives. These are the black people in church on Sunday. They are proud members of a sorority or fraternity.
Russian trolls recognized the power of these voters. “No single group” was targeted more than African-Americans, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“...a white police officer to press his knee into the neck of George Floyd in Minnesota, of the racism that every day results in more black people dying of the coronavirus. African-Americans see this, and they see a president who does nothing to stop it”
Every official in Minneapolis, mayor, city council, police chief and governor are DEMOCRATS! What did THEY do to stop the racism?
Also how is Trump supposed to prevent CaronaVirus from infecting blacks or anyone else for that matter? The state officials already ordered a lockdown for 3 months.
Does Juan Williams want Trump to be a dictator?
The only person that agrees with Juan is when he talks to his mirror.
so, according to Juan, the “solution” is to vote for more Democrats, the very people running both the state AND the city that operates the police force that murders residents like George Floyd and Justine Damond ... now does that really make sense, Juan?
try voting for anything other than a democrat and things might actually change.
Expecting different results when you don’t change anything is called insanity.
25 MAY 2020: George Floyd died during arrest
26 MAY 2020: Protest starts, leading to rioting and looting
How to get blacks BACK on the Democrat plantation, 101!
Well, that’s pretty much what Juan said about the 2016 election, isn’t it? How did that work out for you, Juan? Hmmmmm?!?!
What a race-baiting @ss.
“They’ve been telling us to do that for so long,” she added, “and we’ve done it — and look at everything that’s still going on.”
That’s because you keep voting for Democrats!!!! You’d think that seeing all the failures, they might try something different.
There are two reasons this country is descending into leftist hell.
The first is the complete takeover of higher education by the far left. That has resulted in universities discharging high numbers of brainwashed lefty npcs, who have largely taken over government and the media.
The second is the faustian bargain the democrats conned the blacks into by enacting the great society/welfare programs. This by and large caused the blacks—who were on the point of assimilating American middle class values—largely to turn into a fatherless, anti-social class utterly dependent on government handouts, and therefore on the democrat party that promised to keep those handouts flowing. (As LBJ famously said: “I’ll have those niggers voting democrat for the next 200 years!)
This has been coming my entire lifetime, and I am very much afraid there is no stopping it now.
Biden comments you ain’t black, and he has problems with the black community voting for him. Obama adviser states if the economy comes back then Trump would win and having the economy going good again is a problem .
Then this happens, and the media make this a racial incident. Then the riots close the economy gets hurt as it was opening up and Biden is pretending he now cares about the black community.
That is what is going on.
Just said the same.
said the same.
This country guarantees equal opportunities for all it does NOT guarantee equal outcome for all, you have to work your butt off for your success. Can’t stand Juan Williams, we have tried giving these folks government funding hoping they would get an education and pull themselves up THAT did not work welfare has gone on for generations not only that but the minute they have a baby THAT MONEY increases more babies more money!! We have made college education FAR MORE accessible HOWEVER their local BLACK leaders have done NOTHING to help the K-12 situations to prepare them for college!! We have made small business loans FAR MORE available for them!! WE have given low income housing only to have it completely trashed!! I AM FED UP many, many blacks have pulled themselves OUT and UP they have used all of the opportunities provided to them!! I am THROUGH going back to this BS again!! They NOW have BLACK mayors, BLACK police chiefs, BALCK police officers, BLACK school board directors, BLACK city councils AND these BLACK people have done not a damn thing to improve the situations in these communities!! I do NOT accept this is a racist nation this rouge cop would have done the same damn thing to a white guy!! The BLACK police commissioner should have removed him years ago and did NOT!! WHY??
What drivel!
Do you think that blacks don’t know the mayor of Minneapolis is a Democrat, and like every other city where unarmed blacks have died at the hands of cops, is responsible for the actions of the police as well as their tactics...like kneeling on the necks of subjects?
And do you think they don’t know that officer Chauvin had 18 complaints filed against him but was still patrolling the streets because the department the mayor controls did nothing about those complaints?
in 2019 approximately 260 blacks were shot by the police (armed and unarmed), almost twice the number of whites were shot by the police during this same time period.
Doesn’t look like a systematic targeting or extermination of the black race by the police.
Over 300 were killed in Chicago alone in 2019, but there is no rioting, or destruction of property taking place.
So these people can take there complaints of “white privilege” and shove it up their collective a$$e$.
exactly, Juan Williams needs a gag.
21 MAY 2020: President Trump has a roundtable with key black leaders and other black community activists in Michigan
22 MAY 2020: Joe Biden says "You ain't black if.."
25 MAY 2020: George Floyd died during arrest
26 MAY 2020: Protest starts, leading to rioting and looting
How to get blacks BACK on the Democrat plantation, 101!
To be honest... I don’t know how the FIVE can put up with Williams. He’s not honest for one thing — he distorts and consciously uses points that have been discredited. That alone would not garner any respect for him from his peers. Oh, but he treats his family well and, and, and... YAWN... so what! He’s a shill and gets big payment to do this gig and THAT is the truth of it. In other words, he gets paid to lie and distort. I just couldn’t respect him if I was on that show.
How convenient
Hey Juan, even your, “conservative kids”, laugh at how stoopid your acceptance and backing of the democrat talking points are there pal.
This officer has had numerous complaints filed against him over the years.
The Chief of police in Minneapolis is a black man.
Amy Klobuchar, who was DA of that county at the time dropped charges against this guy when they had the chance to not only fire him but throw his ass in jail over an earlier incident.
A black man, Keith Ellison is the attorney general in the state of Minnesota.
But this is all President Trump’s fault?
This is a local problem and must be fixed locally, people have to stop expecting Washington to fix it because they can’t, our government isn’t set up that way.
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