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Baltimore mayor apologizes to rioters for using T-word ('"thugs” and “criminals"')
WND ^ | 4/29/2015 | Leo Hohmann

Posted on 04/30/2015 12:27:53 AM PDT by sickoflibs

As Baltimore burns, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is turning the flip-flop into a high art form, to the point where she is now apologizing to the rioters for calling them “thugs.”

She stated early Monday that police were instructed to allow “those who wished to destroy space to do that.” By Monday evening, facing heavy criticism from residents and business owners, she walked back from those comments.

As the city was in flames Monday night, Rawlings-Blake spoke freely on CNN about “thugs” and “criminals” who were destroying what so many had worked so hard to build, even as Marxist professor Marc Lamont Hill said the rioters were just expressing “righteous rage” and should not be called thugs. Hill added that the situation in Baltimore was “not a riot” but “uprisings” in response to blacks “dying in the streets for months, years, decades, centuries.”

By Tuesday, the mayor again walked back from her previous comments.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baltimore; looters; riots; thugs
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To: sickoflibs

The White House called and told her what to say. The DNC emailed the actual wording.


21 posted on 04/30/2015 4:23:57 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: sickoflibs

ThugthugthugThugthugthugThugthugthugThugthugthug...

You really get sick of idiot liberal crap at some point. One day some people may need an outlet other than just complaining about their constant whining.


22 posted on 04/30/2015 4:48:08 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

You sound like a racist

Its all your fault.


23 posted on 04/30/2015 4:54:53 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

Once described as a “rising star” in the Democrat Party.


24 posted on 04/30/2015 5:01:10 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: sickoflibs
I was born that way..."white". Lol!

So ironic, too. Doesn't matter how I've lived my life and outside of what people defined as normal cultural parameters. I'm a racist because of my skin color.

One group blames me for all their problems because I'm white. Another group chastises me for marrying a "brown girl". Leftists tell me I'm in a "mixed" marriage (I guess "boy meets girl" is a little outside their norm these days.)

Despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary about me and my character, these @ssholes will still label me a racist just because of my skin color.

I reached the point long ago where I arrived at the conclusion "to hell with the left..." life is too short to deal with their constant BS and lack of desire to resolve their own problems.

25 posted on 04/30/2015 5:24:03 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: sickoflibs; All

“Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake”

A special kind of window licker — You hand in there sunshine.


26 posted on 04/30/2015 5:26:23 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: sickoflibs

The list of cities and states I will no longer visit is growing almost daily. New York, Chicago, San Francisco and California in general, Baltimore, Washington D.C. etc.


27 posted on 04/30/2015 5:50:27 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: dp0622

Clean ‘em out?
Or fence them off.

Anyone that wants out is “probationary” and must comply with civilized standards of behavior for 2 years solid or be chucked back over the fence.


28 posted on 04/30/2015 5:53:19 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: sickoflibs

The signal being sent by Obama’s Soul Searching flying monkeys is loud and clear. If you are a law abiding citizen and/or business owner in any big city anywhere USA, you are ON YOUR OWN. Cops have been neutered and relegated to street crossing guards. The THUGS own the streets. Avoid cities at all costs. They are now death traps.


29 posted on 04/30/2015 5:59:05 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: sickoflibs; Old Sarge
What is really hurting blacks is not racism but the decline of family values and years of high immigration levels, both legal and illegal, which have taken jobs from black workers and demoralized them and further perpetuated a lifestyle of drugs and crime, Peterson said.

(Immigration taking toll on black community)

The great black educator and orator Booker T. Washington warned of this 100 years ago, Peterson said.

Illegal immigration was not nearly as big of a problem back then, but Washington warned that too much legal immigration could harm black families still trying to find their place in the wake of emancipation and civil war.

“Washington and others were encouraging the U.S. government to put a temporary halt on legal immigration into this country to give black Americans a chance to pull themselves up, and now we can see that the flood of immigration, it’s overwhelming,” Peterson said. “But you never hear an outcry on that. The regular folks have lost their sense of taking care of themselves and providing for themselves and thinking for themselves. They know it’s happening but they won’t protest because they have lost the will to take car of themselves and do for themselves.”

Peterson believes the black community is being played by Democratic Party elites today almost as if it remains in bondage.

“Because you can’t control a moral people, you have to demoralize a people in order to control them.”

You found a good one Sick... interesting well-thought out article...

30 posted on 04/30/2015 6:07:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (The thugs loot stores. The community leaders loot cities. - Daniel Greenfield)
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To: sickoflibs
Reminds me of an old cartoon.

A young "teen" turkey comes into the home with a sad and head-hanging attitude.

The mother turkey tells him, "Son, you mustn't get upset when the other kids call you a turkey - you ARE a turkey."

In a sane world, the response would have been, "If you don't like being called thugs and animals, stop acting like thugs and animals."

I hear stories of a time when we were a relatively sane nation and remember some actual events from the '50s that back it up - no more.

31 posted on 04/30/2015 6:11:01 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Libloather

We’ll see how long that lasts.

There’s a concerted effort to portray “thug” as a racist code word and remove it from the discussion.

What better way to do that than to have someone who used it take it back, publically, and apologize for doing so.


32 posted on 04/30/2015 6:13:46 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Gene Eric

I’m thinking this doesn’t work well for dems in 2016 election...or maybe it’s just wishful thinking


33 posted on 04/30/2015 7:39:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Jane Long

I thought so too. I was just too lazy to find visual proof.


34 posted on 04/30/2015 8:52:20 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: sickoflibs
Democratic control of Baltimore is the main cause of the riots and racial division in spite that all the power is in the hand of Black democrats for several generations.

Baltimore needs as mayor, Toya Graham,,the mother that took his son from the mob.

Facts are irrelevant for Anarchists, Communists, professionals agitators and "community organizers" followers of Marxist Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" strategy.

According to the FBI in 2011, 193 blacks were killed by whites, 448 White killed by Blacks while 2,447 blacks were killed by blacks. That is 2.3 times more whites killed by blacks than the other way around despite the fact that there’s six times as many whites in this country.

Do Black lives really matter? How many of the parents of Blacks murdered by Blacks received a call of Obama or send his personal representative to the funeral?

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore

therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts

Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.

Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show

Clarke: Change In Baltimore Should Start With "Failed Liberal Democrat Policies"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284755/posts

Breitbart.com ^ | April 30,2015 | Ian Hanchett

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

35 posted on 04/30/2015 9:27:27 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: sickoflibs

That about sums it up IMO.


36 posted on 05/01/2015 2:58:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: sickoflibs

bookmark


37 posted on 05/02/2015 4:38:24 AM PDT by Steve0113
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