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Justin Timberlake calls for removal of Confederate monuments [Who The Hell Is Justin Timberlake?]
thehill ^ | 07/07/20 | JUSTINE COLEMAN

Posted on 07/07/2020 5:44:02 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Justin Timberlake is calling for the removal of Confederate monuments across the country.

The singer, who is from Tennessee, posted his comments on Instagram on Monday along with a video on the subject from the American Civil Liberties Union.

“America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple,” Timberlake said in the caption. “...those men who proudly owned and abused Black people are STILL celebrated all over the country.”

Timberlake cited a statistic that there are about 1,848 Confederate statues in the country.

“More than half are in The South, and it’s not acceptable,” he said. “No one should be protecting the legacies of confederate leaders and slave owners. If we plan to move forward, these monuments must come down.”

The pop star emphasized that the statues’ removal “does not erase our country’s vile history of oppression” but instead represents a “symbol of respect for Black people in America.”

Calls to remove Confederate statues and monuments were reignited after video of George Floyd’s arrest and death circulated the country. Floyd, an unarmed Black man, died after a now-former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

Protests erupted nationwide after Floyd’s death, leading some demonstrators to vandalize and topple monuments of Confederate leaders and controversial historical figures.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed that a narrow majority of respondents approve of removing Confederate statues, and that voters are split on renaming military bases that are named after Confederate leaders.

President Trump has vowed to veto this year's defense policy bill if it includes an amendment to rename these military bases.

He has also condemned protesters advocating for the removal of statues, saying they want to "overthrow the American Revolution."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2020election; aclu; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; justintimberlake; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; tennessee; timberlake
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To: MarvinStinson

F ing scum bag scalawag. Another example of how money and fame have nothing to do with intelligence and class.


61 posted on 07/07/2020 9:05:46 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: MarvinStinson

a fading pop star looking for attention?


62 posted on 07/07/2020 9:11:27 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: ro_dreaming
George Kirby Floyd just filled in the blank on the Democrats' "Summer Of Racism And Riot" script.

They were going to use an "incident" like this to disrupt the election and attack Trump over "racism".

Floyd was as good as any other dead black body.

63 posted on 07/07/2020 9:26:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: MarvinStinson

Why don’t the North make the South secede from the Union?


66 posted on 07/07/2020 10:40:14 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: MarvinStinson

I don’t know; leather jacket, beard, shaved head.

Looks like a NAZI, SKINHEAD, ARYAN BROTHERHOOD, WHITE POWER LYNCHER to me.

Better AUNTIEFA or BLM him real quick.


67 posted on 07/07/2020 11:31:39 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: MarvinStinson
Timberlake THINKS his opinion is IMPORTANT.. so hence, he trumpets it for all to hear.

My point: Just another "celebrity" caught up in his or her own SELF-IMPORTANCE!

68 posted on 07/07/2020 11:46:36 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: MarvinStinson

>>“America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple,” Timberlake said in the caption. “...those men who proudly owned and abused Black people are STILL celebrated all over the country.”

This Red Dupe commie sympathizer gives the game away. This is NOT about Confederate statues at all. He’s taking direct aim at George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.


69 posted on 07/08/2020 12:37:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Skywise

Isn’t he an oldies act now?

20 years in the music biz is long in the tooth in the pop kiddie racket.


70 posted on 07/08/2020 12:39:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Let’s get rid of the Communist Party as well, in all its different names (CPUSA, Workers’ World, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Internationale Green Party...)


71 posted on 07/08/2020 12:41:45 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Isn't this the pop star who wore a white panthers t-shirt to earn "punk" street cred once?

This is it. This is the picture that killed music.

Yep, that's holiday-parade-float-strutting-boy-band veteran Justin Timberlake wearing an MC5 t-shirt on the cover of a hip-hop magazine, creating what scientists call an "inverse cultural self-suck" wherein black is white, square is round, and Justin Timberlake is taken seriously as an artist.

Not that it'll ever happen, but if this writer should EVER run into Mr. T, I will kindly hold him upside down until he names three MC5 songs. Don't say I didn't warn him.

See, he could have worn an Aerosmith or Led Zep shirt and aroused no suspicion whatsoever. He'd have successfuly shown his vintage street cred without sticking his neck out too far because, based on MY experience, anyone wearing an MC5 is gonna be seen as a poseur by any and all truly discerning rock fans until they prove otherwise...


72 posted on 07/08/2020 12:47:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: ocrp1982

Al Gore’s daddy was from Tennessee and filibustered the 1964 civil rights act.


73 posted on 07/08/2020 12:49:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SaxxonWoods

>>Musician, writer, producer, jerk, came from a successful year-class of Mouseketeers:

Who did they suck in the business to get ahead?


74 posted on 07/08/2020 12:50:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: kiryandil

They were trying to do this with the Georgia Gentle Jogger studying electrical works repeatedly in a house under construction.

When the narrative fell apart they hide to find someone new.

Nobody is talking about that Georgia case anymore.


75 posted on 07/08/2020 12:57:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise
They were trying to do this with the Georgia Gentle Jogger

Yes - they were trying to frame that as "a lynching"...

76 posted on 07/08/2020 5:21:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: a fool in paradise

together with Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Strom Thurmond.


77 posted on 07/08/2020 6:05:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: kiryandil

They call George Floyd’s death “a lynching”


78 posted on 07/08/2020 7:28:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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