WTG Mr. Vice President!
Posted on 06/20/2020 3:33:53 PM PDT by karpov
Vice President Mike Pence in a new interview repeatedly refused to say the words “Black lives matter,” instead saying that, "all lives matter in a very real sense."
In an interview with Philadelphia outlet 6ABCAction News, Pence was asked if he would say “Black lives matter” in the wake of nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died last month after a former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest for several minutes.
Protests have called for widespread police reforms, as well as other racial justice issues.
“Let me just say that what happened to George Floyd was a tragedy,” Pence said Friday. “And in this nation, especially on Juneteenth, we celebrate the fact that from the founding of this nation, we cherish the ideal that all of us are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. And so all lives matter in a very real sense.”
Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebrated on June 19 commemorating the abolishment of slavery in the U.S. On June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation to former slaves in Galveston, Texas. Texas was the final state where the order was read and slaves were freed after first being issued by Lincoln two years earlier.
Pence added that the Trump administration is “supporting law enforcement” and will not “defund the police.” The protests across the country have called for defunding police departments and reallocating city and state funds to social programs, specifically those focused on alternative forms of public safety and crime prevention.
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I don't want my family "disrupted", thank you very much.
All lives matter, and Pence is VP of all Americans.
I am so grateful that man is vice-president.
Thought police more and more will infringe and force us to use their words. He is right, WE ALL MATTER< we are equal and should be tolerate, each to the other.
Good.
All Lives Matter.
I will not take the knee.
Good For Pence!
Thank You, Mr. Vice-President, for NOT caving.
We have gone so far that people now get offended over saying that everyone’s life matters.
Good for Mike Pense to not give in to this Political Correct BS!!!!
Yes, ALL LIVES MATTER
He should’ve followed that with, “Prove me wrong.”
Blue and Gray lives mattered!
WTG Mr. Vice President!
One word describes Pence’s behavior here: Courage
We don’t see much of that these days.
It's as simple as that.
Btw that’s what the constitution Starr’s and what the flag represents. All people are creatied equal.
the message needs to go viral worldwide.
Black Lives Matter is an arm of the Democrat Party, and is interfering in the 2020 election, in collusion with FakeNewsMSM.
“________ lives matter.”
Filling in the blank with ANY race is racist.
Nice to see our VP has a pair.
The fifth-column 6ABCAction News is a hate-filled, anti-American, racist propaganda organization when they demand that Vice-President Pence limit himself to saying “black lives matter” rather than the inclusive “all lives matter.”
OF course the opposition will simply use that as proof, yet again, that the VP and PDJT are H8ers.
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