Posted on 06/09/2020 3:40:44 PM PDT by Stravinsky
As sustained national protests to end police brutality enter their third week, East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) is pushing for legislation to unpack and address the deep-rooted history of systemic racism in the United States and sustain the Black Lives Matter movement into the future.
Last week, Lee called for the creation of a “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Commission.” The proposed commission would have a broad advisory goal, asking the United States to address a legacy of oppression beginning 400 years ago with slavery. It would then offer recommendations to catalyze progress in education, health care, employment, Social Security and veteran benefits, land ownership, financial assistance, food security, wages, voting rights, the justice system, and many other tenets of American life distorted by the lasting impacts of racism.
“The murder of George Floyd and the current COVID-19 crisis illustrate once again the painful and dangerous legacy that white supremacy has had in our country, and the desperate need to fully acknowledge and understand how our history of inequality continues today,” Lee said in an announcement last week.
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Who knew so many institutions were racist.
There was no “murder” the guy decided to resist arrest
Why not print this up and pass around in your precinct
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The democrat controlled media deliberate miss portraying the six foot seven inch 200 plus pound Floyd as an innocent black who was being forceably restrained because he was black not because he was resisting arrest.When He was legitimately arrested for passing a counterfeit $20 dollar bill he was resisting arrest and was a threat if not secured. But the media was not mentioning his size or reporting that Floyd was removed from a squad car because he was acting up under the influence of drugs and also later was discovered to have COVID 19. Which suggests his physical condition may have led to his death which the media turned into a murder change and a charge of serious abuse by police because of police efforts that were tried to get him who under control. Check out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3853159/posts
Further confirmation here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3850910/posts Floyd on drugs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3851693/posts (confirm had covid19)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3852373/posts (2 cops were trainees)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3852275/posts#16 neck hold use world wide
This posting has comments that reveals that both the arresting officer and Floyd knew each other and had worked together in bar security
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3851100/posts
The results of politically induced miss reporting incidents where blacks have resisted legitimate arrest began to be used earlier during and after the post Zimmmerman trial, then on to the Ferguson episode. Obama’s abuse of the “Bully Pulpit” which seemed to promote resistance to legitimate arrest led to black gangs attacking non blacks found innocently traversing black neighborhoods and to a score of murders or life changing injuries and later attacks of theft and vandalism on local businesses as well as attacks and murders of police officers during that period
“I don’t think the death of George Floyd had anything to do with racism.”
And Michael Brown didn’t get shot for putting his hands up.
Doesn’t matter. The Left creates its victims and the media coronates them.
Healing for who?
And once the money starts flowing, the problem will never be solved.
She’s referring to the year 1619, when the first slaves apparently set foot in America. The 1619 Project ridiculously asserts that America was founded to be a slave nation because the Founders feared Great Britain would end slavery.
Somebody needs to start a foundation to provide every citizen a shillelagh and hire Jeff Gillooly to do seminars with instructions on how to use them on idiots.
Talk to the party that believe blacks are so inferior that they can get an ID card for voting. The biggest racists in the country are democrat elites.
To heal 400 years of sytemic racism? Good. I pick 1717. Le’s heal the racism in 1717.
Truth? She can't handle the truth.
Good one - true and so simple!! They don’t want healing - that much is clear! Remember what Booker T. Washington said about “race baiters”...
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/542300-there-is-another-class-of-coloured-people-who-make-a
Right but as far as American history goes the English were bringing in slaves to the ‘colonies’ in the early 1700’s, although they were bring them in the Caribbean islands. If they have a problem on how they were treated they should be going after the Democrats since they’re the party that kept them in slavery and Segregation and that Separate but Equal nonsense.
Wasn’t that 1619 book that won the Pulitzer ridiculed for its inherent inaccuracy?
So this bitch uses incendiary, racist, divisive language like “white supremacy”
And then asks for “healing”?
Gee, will that also include an “honest discussion” of crime, violence, scholastic performance, illegitimacy quotas, rioting, looting, arson et al?
Believe it or not, yes, some are pushing that position, in that the virus has had a more dire impact in minority communities.
Count me out
“We are the only nation in history that went to war to end slavery.”
3 wars. 2 Barbary Wars ( Marine Hymn -”to the shores of Tripoli”)
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/barbary-pirates-white-slavery.html
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