Skip to comments.
Ex-NAACP Head: Black Youth Afraid For Their Lives With Police Like Colonists With Redcoats
NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 12/05/2014 11:46:51 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
You say you want a revolution? Former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous just analogized the fear for their lives that black youth feel about police to the fear the colonists felt toward the "Redcoats"—British soldiers during the time of the American Revolution.
Jealous, now with the leftist Center for American Progress, made his inflammatory claim to Ronan Farrow on the latter's MSNBC show today. Rather than challenging Jealous, Farrow thanked him for his "impassioned take." Has it come to this? A significant civil rights leader analogizes race relations in the United States to the revolution that led to the creation of our country, and all an MSNBC host can do is thank him for it?
View the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanrevolution; benjealous; blackyouth; police
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-47 next last
To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...
Former NAACP head makes revolutionary analogy to situation of blacks in America. Ping to Today show list.
2
posted on
12/05/2014 11:47:48 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Colonists were only 3% of the population but committed over 50% of all the murders???
3
posted on
12/05/2014 11:48:19 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Lighten up Bennie. Go get a tan or something.
4
posted on
12/05/2014 11:48:34 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Remember! When the GOP wins, it means the stupid American voters want bipartisanship.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well maybe it’s a a good thing and they won’t be acting with a mob mentality.
5
posted on
12/05/2014 11:48:48 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Black guys today are *married* and farm tobacco..?
I’m a wombat, then.
7
posted on
12/05/2014 11:51:26 AM PST
by
gaijin
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Coincidentally, non black unarmed people have reason to fear for their lives as well. But not by the police so much. Lets see if Ben can guess why.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Does that sound just a tad over-the-top to anyone else
9
posted on
12/05/2014 11:52:22 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
10
posted on
12/05/2014 11:52:25 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
So 14% of the population commits 1/2 of all crime, and he won’t admit it? Stop committing the crime and watch how minority youth has nothing to worry about with the police.
11
posted on
12/05/2014 11:52:35 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
There is only one thing a young Black Thug fears more than the po-po!
To: governsleastgovernsbest
A significant civil rights leader ??
Since When does being a self avowed RACIST qualify as being a Civil Anything leader??
13
posted on
12/05/2014 11:55:16 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: I want the USA back
Not even 14%. More like 3%.
See post 3.
The breakdown...
14 percent are blacks. Half of them are men. Down to 7 percent. Black males between 18 and 30 years old (3%) are the ones doing 50% of the murders.
14
posted on
12/05/2014 11:58:07 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Jat CARNEY....josh EARNEST ...lorreta LYNCH...Benjamin..JEALOUS?
where do these people find spokesmouths with such NAMES???
15
posted on
12/05/2014 11:58:09 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The redcoats thing is a little over the top, now cowboys and Nergos, that might work as an analogy.
16
posted on
12/05/2014 11:59:43 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
He’s black? Heck, I’m darker than he is, he only has the ‘fro.
still preaching the revolution, they have to know they’ll lose.
17
posted on
12/05/2014 12:00:06 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(I'm out of ideas about tag lines.)
To: 2banana
Colonists were 93% likely to be murdered by other colonists ?
18
posted on
12/05/2014 12:01:13 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Except the young blacks kill one another at alarming rates.
Otherwise, it’s exactly the same.
19
posted on
12/05/2014 12:03:40 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
So is Ben Jealous (that’s his name?) white or black?
Looks like a cracker to me.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-47 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
