Posted on 06/19/2024 5:08:13 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday (June 5, 2020) to discuss the riots.
Brennan tried to get Rice to admit that the Trump Administration’s failure to contain the lawlessness here is signaling weakness abroad and putting the U.S. in danger.
“Madam Secretary, you know, some of America’s adversaries, Russia, Iran, China, they are using the images of what happened to Mr. Floyd and what is happening in the streets of American cities right now in their own state propaganda. Do you see this racial divide as a national security threat to us?” Brennan asked.
Rather than providing the desired response, Rice replied: (emphasis mine)
Well, I’ve always thought that America’s greatest strength is that we are a country where you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, and where, despite our painful history, we’ve worked harder and harder every day, brick by brick, to build a more perfect union for all of us. And I would say to those, particularly in places like China and Russia and Iran, who may want to use this for propaganda, let’s not be absurd.
This is not Tiananmen Square where you’ve mowed down people who disagreed with the government. This is not the invasion of Crimea where you took land from your neighbor. This is not the Green Revolution in Iran where you killed people wantonly because they wouldn’t agree with the theocratic government.
Rice continued, “And I would even say to our friends abroad, in places like Europe, where I’m seeing demonstrations in support of what is happening here, thank you for your support, but please look in the mirror. Please ask yourself, in countries in Europe and countries all across the world, what are you doing about racial and ethnic inequality in your own circumstances? America has gotten better because we have been willing to confront our problems. And we’re going to confront our problems again. We’re confronting them now.
“But I really don’t need to be lectured by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about peaceful protest when they have themselves used their own force just because people wanted to criticize the government. That is not what is happening here,” she added.
These people spit on July 4 but they demand that we worship Juneteenth.
you DO mean true meaninglessness...right?
That's curious. I'm of the opinion that conservatives are best at capitulating to the enemy. Not unlike WW2 era Jews in Nazi Germany.
Another taxpayer funded federal holiday/excuse for rioting? But it makes for a good opportunity to grovel-for-votes I suppose.
Juneteenth was brought to you by Republicans, despite the best efforts of Democrats.
Juneteenth is a joke. The USA is becoming like African Countries with up to 19 holidays and they are all insolvent. The lost tax revenue and interruption of production amounts to billions of dollars of losses without the American people knowing it and celebrates nothing.
It is meaningful to blacks. It should have stayed with the black community, because the left will ruin it.
The deeper point missed by all is that the Texas Republican Party was in that era founded by blacks in Texas.
Republicans are the only true advocates of black rights. Democrats have demonized black people for decades and launched an anti constitutional war to refuse those rights.
It only became a holiday because Trump haters saw he had scheduled a rally on it. Even though Juneteenth was unknown outside of Texas.
Of course the government is going to give us a holiday set every 4 - 5 months to create division. Please provide me the names of other countries that work as hard as the US to divide the population.
I was greatly disappointed to see the local sanitation department come around this morning and pick up the trash as they usually do on Wednesdays.
Seeing as how “Juneteenth” is definitely a garbage holiday if there ever was one, I figured the trashmen would have the day off.
Re “Juneteenth”: If we ignore it, maybe it will go away.
The name of the holiday is incomprehensible.
Juneteenth is the celebration of persons shooting each other at Summer community events. Concentrated into one bulletfest, it takes the pressure off of thugs to shoot each other on the 4th of July and random weekends. And, no one else but the thugs and their entourage seems to be allowed to attend these events, at least in my City, so it is a positive holiday.
Actually, what happens in America is the work that would be done today gets spread like peanut butter across the rest of the workdays. Many businesses remain open.
If you were right, economic statistics for the past 4 Junes would be down. I haven’t seen this indeed, the unemployment rate in 2023 improved.
Remember that it’s also National Martini Day. Celebrate.
It’s a portmanteau.
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