Posted on 02/07/2019 2:19:19 PM PST by robowombat
Tweet referred to Secret Service. Hill offered apology.
Former ESPN host and current The Atlantic writer Jemele Hill may be getting a visit from the Secret Service soon as she disgustingly joked about killing Donald Trump during last night’s State of the Union Address.
On Tuesday night, Hill tweeted that Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was in attendance at the SOTU, should yell out “GETCHO HAND OUT MY POCKET.”
That statement is a reference to what one of Malcolm X’s assassins yelled out before they killed the 1960s civil rights leader.
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So if conservatives joke about lynching, it is no joke according to her.
She won’t be around 24 hours after that happens.
Should Malcolm X be called a “civil rights leader”? His ideas were pretty far removed from those of Martin Luther King, Jr., and I can’t think of anything Malcolm X did that advanced the cause of civil rights.
Yep. Muslim hate spewer would be more accurate.
I remember when The Atlantic was a serious magazine. I still make my students read Vannevar Bush’s 1945 article “As We May Think.”
Another victim of affirmative action, I guess.
The fellow that really made it a good magazine of late was killed by an IED in Iraq, that place where no good thing comes.
Absolutely nothing is going to happen to her: she’s a liberal, she’s a Negress, she’s a progressive . . . so, since the liberal side of our politics NEVER suffers incarceration or punishment, NOTHING will happen to her,
So a joke about assassinating Obama was also a joke?
Did you hear the one about Jemele Hill being thrown from a helicopter?
Her twitter account should be shut down for that comment
Did he hold up a bloody Trump head?
next dem congress member
She’s a writer? What’s her language?
She is the epitome for black history month.
So lets talk about assassinating her
While I understand the Malcolm X reference, the phrase “get your hand out of my pocket!” coming from the left is ironic as heck. This is what we need to be shouting to the democrats every day - in the literal, not allusive, sense.
He was gunned down pretty young. I think he was misunderstood. There is an anecdote of a story of a young white female who asked him what she could do to help his cause and he told her “nothing”. He is said to later have regretted that response. His main point was that, at that time - before the Civil Rights Act really swung into practice and before Affirmative Action - that all immigrants rose up in this country at first by supporting their own communities. Think Ellis Island - the Irish, Italians, Jews etc all basically moved into “hoods” of predominantly their fellow immigrants, supported each other commercially, with employment, with assistance etc. And Malcolm X was saying that they needed to do the same.
The times were different, and I am of the belief he was killed by the same people who recruited Mohammed Ali to the Nation of Islam. Malcolm was never given an Islamic name, the X is given to all new converts and an Islamic name given only when earned. Ali of course earned his by celebrity and wealth, and meanwhile Malcolm X was ostracized for being too vocal and critical of the decisions of the leadership. He represented a risk to their power.
The African American experience is unique as they are the only people who descend from immigrants forced here against their will and ultimately didn’t have that same experience - one day slaves, the next day free men but with no community support, no assets to share, lots of resentment etc. It was 150 years ago, I know, and 50 years ago since MX was assassinated. Much has changed.
All that stuff happened before I was born, or in my infancy. But I happened to catch a video recently of William Buckley interviewing Huey P. Newton of the Black Panthers - in 1973. Newton was very eloquent and rational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUicVnx1UKU&t=158s
There is also a 5 minute version out there. The link above is the full 1 hour interview.
I did not know that.
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