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I hate it when someone I usually can't stand is absolutely right about something.
Condoleezza Rice said something similar, about how her support for the second amendment came from seeing blacks getting harassed during the civil rights movement and the police doing nothing about it. So, blacks started patrolling with guns themselves.
One more reason why the Democratic Party does NOT always have the best interest of people of color in mind.
I hate it when someone I usually can't stand is absolutely right about something.
Condoleezza Rice said something similar, about how her support for the second amendment came from seeing blacks getting harassed during the civil rights movement and the police doing nothing about it. So, blacks started patrolling with guns themselves.
One more reason why the Democratic Party does NOT always have the best interest of people of color in mind.
"The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote.
The Republicans did.
My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I."
Many a big-gov't, nannyist initiative had its roots in racism. Gun control started as a drive to keep guns from blacks. The war on drugs started due to progressives' fear of being attacked by coked-up blacks. Gov't intrusion into marriage was in part to stop micegenation. Also the war on prostitution, which began under progressive Dem Wilson due to the fear of 'white slavery.' (one of the first prosecutions was of boxer Jack Johnson, bc he had a white GF.
And yet blacks now vote 90+ pct for progressive democrats....go figure.
"the war on drugs started due to progressives` fear of being attacked by coked-up blacks" Progressives? I`ll assume that was a typo.
hardly a typo. Read up on the Harrison Act of 1914. It was championed by progressives and signed into law by progressive icon Woodrow Wilson. Before then opium, cocaine, and pot were legal and could be purchased OTC at pharmacies.
Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers and caused them to rebel against white authority. Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania testified that "Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain
until the left wing dingbats disassociate themselvess will Bill Mayer they may want to lay off the Ann Coulter insults
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