Posted on 06/14/2020 5:39:02 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
George Stephanopoulos asks Ben Carson whether it's appropriate for President Trump to give his RNC acceptance speech on August 27th in Jacksonville, given that date is the 60th anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday" in that city, in which KKK members beat a largely black group of civil rights protesters.
Carson says that we need to "grow up" and stop being offended by everything. Invited to comment, Stacey Abrams calls Ben Carson's comment "fairly infantile."
View the video at the link.
On 2nd thought, if the GOP had real smarts, they would start promoting this day every year reminding everyone that it was a Republican President that ended the demonkraps institution of slavery. That fact can’t be changed as much as the demonkraps, party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, abortion fo the innocents lie about all the racist moving into the GOP. ROFLMAO Hello, Robert Byrd? Joe “You Ain’t Black” Biden? Need more examples?
I’m from the South (mountains of East Tennessee) Maybe I just didn’t pay attention to Juneteenth or something...
That makes a lot of sense...Turn it back on them....
Has she lost weight?
What about Festivus ?
I hope Trumps not planning a rally then.
You are in a great part of the country.
You didn’t hear about it because it is a state holiday in Texas. The Emancipation Proclamation was Jan 1, 1863. Texas was furthest slave state away ... the story is that Union General Granger arrived in Galveston on the June 18. On June 19th he publicly read federal orders that slaves in Texas were free. Not sure you ever visited Texas, but Texans have a great pride in their state history.
“‘Ax Handle Saturday’. Hmmmm. If I had to pick a new personal holiday for myself.........”
I would have guessed you’d go for +VLFBERHT+ (Ulfberht) Friday.
Gives you a three day weekend. ;)
Black Sit-ins began on August 13, 1960 when students asked to be served at the segregated lunch counter at Woolworths, Morrison’s Cafeteria and other eateries. They were denied service and kicked, spit at and addressed with racial slurs. This came to a head on “Ax Handle Saturday”, August 27, 1960.[28] A group of 200 middle aged and older white men (allegedly some were also members of the Ku Klux Klan) gathered in Hemming Park armed with baseball bats and ax handles. They attacked the protesters conducting sit-ins.
I sincerely hope “black America” (whatever/whomever that means)
= = =
Would that be America at night?
When troublemakers come out. (Nothing good ever happens after midnight.)
And, to push the envelope, evolution has adapted a species to thrive in the dark, blend in, so to speak.
So who are we to argue with Evolution, settled science.
No, abrams, what’s infantile is being offended by everything.
Dr. Carson is quite correct.
She’s had a few too many rodeos at the Golden Corral.
George Stephanopoulos asks Ben Carson whether it's appropriate for President Trump to give his RNC acceptance speech on August 27th in Jacksonville, given that date is the 60th anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday" in that city, in which KKK members beat a largely black group of civil rights protesters.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Love to, but I’m my own worst enemy with cutlery, for some reason.
Abrams is literally a fat nothing burger. All I see is someone with a big mouth and even bigger ego. Bad combo.
The MSM has a new formula at play.
Trump schedules event for date X.
Media digs around to find something bad historically about date X.
MSM reports on how insensitive Trump is to schedule event on date X.
IIRC Juneteenth is mostly observed in Texas.
LOL
Carson is about 100 IQ points above Aunt Jemima.
Ax me about dat.
Hmmm...
Perhaps the Mjölnir then?
Mjölnir Monday.
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