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.
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.
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.
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.
Remember that it’s also National Martini Day. Celebrate.
On this Juneteenth let’s be grateful to God Almighty that the United States legally and officially ended the execrable and abhorrent practice of slavery over one hundred and fifty years ago. And let’s pray to Jesus Christ to help us in this modern era, to rid our lands of evil that still perpetuates nightmares.
Let’s hope and pray that recognizing this achievement will help the descendants of slaves heal and recognize who is truly on their side even today. Let’s pray the history lesson we should all know or learn is appreciated and understood by those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Slavery was a battle from Day 1 of our Republic. In winning the war against Democrats and their love of chained, black flesh and souls, Republicans were able to legally free and protect their black brothers and sisters from the indignity of being owned and of having their families torn apart by Democrats who only cared for their very own power and pocketbooks. Black families were able to grow and thrive in this land of opportunity. For one hundred years former slaves and their grandchildren became land owners, business owners, musicians, writers, politicians, they had success in every walk of life, even though they still fought against the discrimination and bigotry of democrats who still despised them for being free.
Black families and communities did not have it as easy as they would have without democrats, but any progress they made was eventually stolen by LBJ and the new Democrat Party, who nonetheless enslaved black flesh and souls once again in ghetto plantations. Black families were torn apart with cheap housing and welfare money, food stamps. With the indignity of not being the heads of their houses, black men were degraded again into despair and depression until drugs and gangs replaced their desire for meaning and purpose. Black women only had to have a child every year to get more money, it was no matter that there was no family, there was just Uncle Sam’s check.
And yet, today, while we rejoice in our own civilized society, let’s remember the places on earth where the uncivilized, ignorant, and animalistic scum of the earth still enslave fellow humans. And let’s ask our “Leaders” why slavery is allowed to exist at all?
Starting with American Democrats and their love of the open border, where women and children are trafficked into the slave trades of sex work and forced labor.
Not alone in their lust for perversion and cheap workers, American Democrats are joined by at least the following, hellish nightmares on earth.
We can estimate 10 million slaves in the sex, drug, and labor trades in the Americas alone.
Venezuela, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, Panama, Guyana, Argentina, United States, Costa Rica, Chile, Uruguay, Canada,
Around the rest of the earth it’s estimated 50 million souls are held in slavery. These countries are the worst offenders. India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey, Bangladesh,
Our own United States is estimated to have at least 1,091,000 souls held in darkness and anguish, suffering fates as bad as any American slave suffered 165 years ago.
But, yes, let’s remember the Americans who fought and died to free their their enslaved brothers and sisters. Let’s ask ourselves what has gone wrong since then. Let’s turn to democrats and ask if they are blind liars or just stupid. Let’s ask who is responsible for the loss of family and dignity and opportunity in the ghetto plantations today.
LR 6/19/24
Too late.
“Juneteenth” is an ignorant nonsensical word. The idea that it should be a national holiday is pure pandering. Nobody cares about “Juneteenth”.
1) A local Texas thing that of no significance to other African Americans before "The Left" made it a national holiday.
2) Current significance is it is an additional holiday for mayhem during African American Summer.
Reference: https://heyjackass.com/enlightening-commentary/fathers-day-weekend-9/
GENERAL ORDERS, NUMBER 3
The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor. The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.
Any meaning that I derive from “Juneteenth” is of poor quality for a reason.
As an example, my state celebrates (as a STATE holiday) "Evacuation Day" which is the day back in 1776 that the British, under the cannons installed overnight on Dorchester Heights under the very noses of the British, in total silence. The British garrison went to bed with NO cannons looking down at them, and woke up looking at fortifications built overnight in total silence, with the muzzles of the cannons pointed directly at them. It forced the British to concede their undefendable position and withdraw from the city, removing the boot of the British from the necks of the New England Colonials.
As the author accurately points out: "...The Left has worked hard to co-opt the holiday and use it as a tool to divide their countrymen and to replace the real Independence Day..."
Making "Juneteenth" a national holiday is a disgrace and a farce.