Posted on 06/11/2020 12:27:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that even the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not have the same global impact as the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month has.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion in Philadelphia, Biden said that the advent of smartphones had allowed the reality of police brutality against people of color to spread like it never has before, comparing it to how the rise of television in the 1960s showed Americans the police violence that marked the Civil Rights Movement.
“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said. “It’s just like television changed the Civil Rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor and his dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women going to church and firehoses ripping the skin off of young kids.”
“What happened to George Floyd – now you got how many people around the country, millions of cell phones. It’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this,” he continued. “Look at the millions of people marching around the world.”
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Oh no he dint
That’s some sad commentary right there.
floyd was no better then an animal. He has nothing to do with what is going on other then being used as a excuse. When will we fight back?
The global narrative to break the back of America.
Well ‘they’ needed a new cause so now ‘they’ have one. Right pedo joe. How you gonna feel the morning of Nov 4th? “What day is it? Did I win?”
That pretty much sums up the absurdity of this.
>> When will we fight back?
Demand the DOJ break up Comcast & ATT for starters.
Wait....
So, we are going to get another holiday?
Because an absolutely perfect way to measure those two things totally exists.
You’ve got some difficult days ahead Sleepy Joe...
Not this crap again..Geshhh Fool
Give it up it has ne relevance
Actually, these young street thugs and millennials really don’t know much about MLK, many probably don’t have any idea who he was or what he did. So a replacement for King has been created, GPF, a street hero they can identify with, honor his accomplishments, and make him their cause. Does this mean MLK day is cancelled?
Does this mean that every ghetto is going to get a street named George Floyd Boulevard?
He’s actually right about this one. I recall no riots overseas after MLK’s assassination and I recall few whites participating in the riots here either for that matter.
MLK was not internationally all that important. American kids are surprised when they learn that someone named Martin Luther 500 years ago was much more influential on world history than MLK.
Biden is probably correct on this.
I recall the springtime of 1968 when MLK was killed.
There was a huge impact in our American media, into our society and culture. However the strongest impact remained within this country, IMO, because back then, there were only newspapers, TV and radio.
Plus, back then, most magazines only devoted a certain amount of print space to the actions of black folks, famous or not. Some people were still shocked by singer Sammy Davis Jr.’s marriage to a white Swedish woman. The Biggest news then was anything to do with the Kennedy Family and the Vietnam War.
There will be a backlash. The question is how much and when. Laying blame at the feet of all white people, rioting, looting, suppressing facts, and any future bad behavior by these folks will have repercussions. Give it a bit of time.....
So when will America have a George Floyd National Holiday?
And on that day - will we all be encouraged to take lethal amounts of meth and fentanyl and pass counterfeit 20’s?
The libtards are really trying hard to keep those plantation fences up.
Go get em’ Uncle Joe, your leg hairs need some roach scratchin’!
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