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Atkins: Black lives did not matter at the GOP debate
The Boston Herald ^ | August 9, 2015 | Kimberly Atkins

Posted on 08/08/2015 10:32:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the shot heard ’round America — the one that left Michael Brown’s lifeless body lying on a Ferguson, Mo., street for hours and then left the nation reeling and roiling ever since.

Yet watching the GOP candidates and Fox News moderators shape and prioritize the nation’s most pressing problems Thursday night, one couldn’t help but wonder: Does “Black Lives Matter” matter to them at all?

In a two-hour debate, which frankly felt much longer, only two candidates were even asked about race.

First, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker answered a question about the Black Lives Matter movement with largely non-responsive comments about police accountability measures.

Later, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, perhaps realizing that no one asked the one black guy on stage about race, put the issue to Ben Carson, who used his expertise as a surgeon to declare us all the same under the skin.

With the exception of Rand Paul, who gave lip service to the issue of race by mentioning, as he frequently does, that he’s been to Ferguson and Detroit and other places where black people can be found, everyone else remained silent on the issue, like they’d dodged a bullet.

Meanwhile, it seems like each day there is a new dash-cam video showing people of color who, unfortunately, did not dodge the bullets fired in their direction.

If the GOP hopefuls demonstrated a fraction of the passion and protectionism they dedicate to the hypothetical fetuses being discussed in a stream of anti-abortion sting videos, perhaps they could join in an actual discussion of the racial tensions, opportunity inequities, heavy-handed policing and race-based distrust that has become part of the American fabric. As Kelly correctly pointed out, it has been called the civil rights issue of our time.

If the candidates cared a little more, maybe we’d even get some solutions.

They should have expected questions about race — if for no other reason than nearly all of their Democratic counterparts have been caught, one time or another, flat-footed when asked about it.

But despite the stumbles of folks like former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, at least they seem willing to learn from the mistakes. But for Republicans, it seems more politically expedient to ignore ongoing race-based struggles.

If only black America had that luxury.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland; US: Massachusetts; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bencarson; blacklivesmatter; blacks; boston; bostonherald; carson; cruz; election2016; kimberlyatkins; martinomalley; maryland; massachusetts; megynkelly; michaelbrown; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; randpaul; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; scottwalker; wisconsin
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I tire of this, down to the marrow in my bones.
1 posted on 08/08/2015 10:32:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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#StupidCowLivesDon'tMatter

2 posted on 08/08/2015 10:37:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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O’Malley’s “mistake” was daring to suggest that all lives matter.

“Black lives matter” won’t play at the GOP debates because the movement, such as it is is a joke.


3 posted on 08/08/2015 10:37:06 PM PDT by Reaper19
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Black lives did not matter at the GOP debate”

That’s one positive for the debate.


4 posted on 08/08/2015 10:39:32 PM PDT by aquila48
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#PlannedParenthoodLovesBlackKidsToPieces #Soylent Black And what about the treatment of Barack Obama over Dr. Benjamin Carson?

One, a life of poverty, climbing to the top, and possibly having the door slammed in his face; the Democrat, the offspring of rich, well connected people, having doors open for him magically despite his utter lack of qualifications.

Or the Bernie Sanders rally today, when he had to flee the stage when #BlackLivesMatter agitators climbed it?

#WhiteBreadMatters

#SaltinesMatter

5 posted on 08/08/2015 10:44:07 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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“O’Malley’s “mistake” was daring to suggest that all lives matter.”

The wink, wink, nod, nod is that it is really “Black Lives Matter More”, as the reaction to O’Malley’s first comment amply proved.

6 posted on 08/08/2015 10:47:20 PM PDT by IAMNO1 (Enough with the divisions. Lets get somebody in there who'll fix this mess.)
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7 posted on 08/08/2015 10:49:06 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: aquila48
And on Drudge they just posted a story about an unarmed teen being shot while robbing a car dealership in Texas.

Did they not know it's one week from the anniversary of Elvis' death?

And Ramadan was only 3 weeks ago.

Worst of all, it's the one year anniversary since Mike Brown committed a strong-arm robbery at the Quik Mart. If only police would look at the calendar.

Apparently only lies and agendas REALLY matter.

8 posted on 08/08/2015 10:49:13 PM PDT by boop (A joke? The hell kind of joke is that? 'Bout as funny as a gutful of pinworms!)
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#OvaltineMatters!

I love that stuff and I really do follow the coded advice given by Pierre Andre.


9 posted on 08/08/2015 10:50:19 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!


10 posted on 08/08/2015 10:51:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Atkins: Black lives did not matter at the GOP debate

Teacher317: Black lives did not matter in any of the 100+ US cities where a black murdered a black this week and no black commentator or activist said a thing about it.

11 posted on 08/08/2015 10:53:19 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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"Atkins: Black lives did not matter at the GOP debate"

It should be enlightening to watch the democrat debates to learn how programs like midnight basketball can defuse some of the racial strife engendered by seven years of comrade obama.
12 posted on 08/08/2015 10:56:00 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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And the sky is blue. Is that what you were getting at?


13 posted on 08/08/2015 10:57:49 PM PDT by Fungi
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I’m coming less and less to give a damn what the seeming majority of blacks understand - or more likely don’t - as they appear to regard it as some sort of honor to be even more stupid than the majority of whites in American society, given the state of public education, holding to it as an accomplishment to actually be proud of.


14 posted on 08/08/2015 10:58:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: LibWhacker

How does she interact w/Howie Carr

(a nod to the Dean of Talk Radio...

http://www.jerrywilliams.org/


15 posted on 08/08/2015 11:01:28 PM PDT by This_far (Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
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I will expect every Democrat debate to be nothing less than all Blacks in the audience.
I wonder how many fights will break out over no Blacks in their debate.
16 posted on 08/08/2015 11:02:31 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: dfwgator; re_nortex

17 posted on 08/08/2015 11:04:56 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I know that the fake #black lives matter BS doesn’t mean crap to me.

Note: My daughter is black and she means a lot to me, not this so called movement.


18 posted on 08/08/2015 11:06:58 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does the Herald actually pay this idiot to write this tripe or was this a letter to the editor?


19 posted on 08/08/2015 11:09:56 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (American Taliban - The Democratic Party)
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First, none of the moderators made that or other issues part of this debate.
Secondly that big guy was a violent criminal who lifted a store owner by the throat and later tried to take a gun away from a police officer in the car, so that black life did matter in regard to being a deadly threat to others and his life mattered greatly by having it end.

If anyone in the special privileged community wants to argue my point, how about first releasing his juvenile records. It's been as bad as trying to see Obama's college records.

20 posted on 08/08/2015 11:12:08 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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