Being black does not automatically give you a free pass for supporting a racist scumbag like Trump.
I said im black because you called me a hick. And please dude give me a break with this Trump is racist BS. Do you have any idea who Hillary's mentor Robert Byrd was? The guy literally created an entire clan chapter, and yes he said it was a a mistake, but only after he absolutely had to to retain his political power. Even then Hillary openly supported him before he recanted his past.
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
If you think being comfortably middle-class is gonna protect you from Republican policy, you are gravely mistaken. Sucking the wealth out of the middle class, and funneling it to their wealthy campaign contributors is number one on their agenda.
Umm... your're talking completely out of your ass now. I think you should look deeper into who funded each of the presidential candidates back in 2016.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/
Trumps tax cuts also allow effected teh middle class way more so than the rich.
you are one traffic stop away from a kkk affiliated police officer deciding that a black man is obviously a drug-dealer if his car is that nice. The bullets in the officers gun don't care if you have almost made a million dollars, and the racist pig holding the gun only sees the color of your skin.
I've had more run ins with the law than i would like to admit, and only two of them out of well over 10 possibly more than 20 did I ever feel even slightly discriminated against. Ive been pulled over while going over 100 mph off an exit ramp in the rain, and let go. I've been pulled over with cars full of questionable warez, and let go. Ive been piss drunk screming at teh police calling them racists, while getting placed in custodyand then treated with nothing but kindness once I calmed down. I've been able to talk police out of taking a friend to jail during a domestic dispute. Im sure that there are racist cops out there, but i highly doubt that my experience has all been luck. The BLM narrative though is bullshit and police violence has to do with a lot more than just race. Oh and for the record I was one of the 100 or so people that actually showed up to the Christopher Dorner rally outside of the LAPD. Im totally in line with the notion that the police are becoming increasingly more militarized but I dont believe the black lives matter rhetoric because I've lived it and never seen that. I have seen blacks treated like shit by the police, but usually those blacks deserve it.
Hillary Clinton won by 3 million votes, yet Trump is given the Presidency.
Thats how our system(a republic) works bro, it was designed that for the same reason DPOS is designed the way it is.
Robert Byrd died a long time ago. He was ancient. He was a part of the Dixiecrat movement, which totally died out when the parties switched platforms in the 1950's. Robert Byrd stayed with the Democrats and worked with them to create civil rights legislation for decades afterward. He acknowledged his mistake, and spent the rest of his life making it right. It's a shame we don't see much of that kind of thing happen these days.
I grew up in a small town in Idaho. I was taught to be xenophobic from childhood, and was never exposed to different cultures. Some choose to get out of the box when they see a bigger world, others choose to stay in it and practice willful ignorance. My beef isn't with people that were born in the box and decided to climb out. That would be hypocritical. My beef is with people who lock their minds up tighter than Fort Knox as soon as an alternate viewpoint is presented. My beef is with the incredible amount of cognitive dissonance it must take to not see Trump's racist words and policies, when they are right in front of your face.
The Bloomberg article you posted didn't reveal much. It shows which super PACs contributed to which campaigns, but it doesn't really give much info on where the PACs are getting the money. If you were to dig a bit deeper, you would find that PACs backing Republicans tend to take fewer donations in larger amounts, whereas Democratic PACs tend to take smaller contributions from a greater number of donors. It also mentions that Trump spent $66 million of his own money, but nobody knows where that money came from. Oh wait, we do know where some of it comes from...
You admit to having at least two encounters with racist police, but you still think most of the black victims of police brutality deserve it. That really takes a unique combination of callousness and cowardice.
"That's just the way it is, bro" is not an acceptable answer to the urgent problems in our country that need to be addressed. Things like climate change, clean air/water, civil rights, consumer protection, and economic inequality are life and death issues for millions of Americans. Those of us that refuse to accept things as they are will continue to work for progress. Fools like you will continue to benefit from this great work, even while you bite the hand that feeds.
Robert Byrd was the one who filibustered the civil rights act of 1964 dude and he died in 2010, not that long ago.
Please enlighten me and show me Trumps racist words and policies
Hold your horses, I said slightly discriminated against. Maybe if you read the rest of what I wrote then you would understand that Im not saying racist cops dont exist, just not to the extent that BLM would have you to believe. Sure theres racist people in every profession, Im not happy with it but im not going to cry systematic oppression just because of one isolated incident. Also understand that there are more ways to discriminate against someone other than race, you seem to be rather discriminatory against republicans, and those who voted for trump.
but it is an acceptable answer to why the ellectoral college works the way it does and why we chose a democratic republic rather than a direct democracy
Completely irrelevant to this argument tho.
I find it ironic that u keep stereotyping me, feeding me generalizations and memes while telling me that the people who share my beliefs are racist bigots. Please dude you're nuts. On top of that You dont even know how to sub classify the different kinds of republicans & democrats. You called Trump & Alex Jones Neocons for crying outloud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
In short "Neocons" are basically prowar conservatives while "Neolib" may technically mean something else but when used in 2018 America it tends to mean prowar liberals that collude with the neocons such as Bill, Obama, Hillary, all of which continued Bush Sr's wars with each president expanding on the last . (yes i know HIllary was not a president, but shes already shown us what she would have expanded on Barrack Dronestrike Obama war policies if she won)Trump is literally the first one to actually slow things down
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
2010 was 8 years ago. 8 years ago is a long time in my book, and I'm 40 years old. 1964 was a really long time ago. Hillary Clinton was only 17 years old, and you and weren't even born yet. Your claim that "Hillary openly supported him before he recanted his past" is a total lie. Robert Byrd has a lifetime NAACP score of 82%. You will have a very difficult time finding any Republican with a score that high.
You want examples of Trump's racism? Seriously? You can't just Google this shit? You don't have any friends or family explaining this shit to you? How about the birther movement? Did anybody ever explain to you that Trump accused President Obama of not being a real American, even though he had no evidence to prove such a claim? Has anyone explained his racist and discriminatory immigration policies to you? Has anyone brought it to your attention that he paid out a multi-million dollar settlement when he was caught discriminating against black tenants? How about the time he called African and South American countries "shithole countries", and then asked why we can't get more people to immigrate from Norway? How about the time he referred to white supremacists and Nazis marching in Charlottesville as "very fine people". These are just a few instances I can think of off the top of my head. I would keep going, if I thought it would do any good.
If there are racists in the police force, that's systemic oppression. It isn't one isolated incident. It is a widespread pattern of behavior. Look at the figures on incarceration and use of force on minorities. Look at how our drug laws, which are racist in origin, are enforced selectively against minorities. Open your eyes.
Neo means new. Con is short for conservative. A long time ago, conservatives actually cared about conserving things. That is no longer the case, so I choose to call all modern prominent Republicans neocons, because that is what they are. They are con artists, and the only thing they are conserving is white supremacy and corporate power.
I'm a veteran. I have seen Democrats negotiate peace, and I have seen Republicans make utterly disastrous foreign policy blunders. When it comes to foreign policy, I'm more of a Dennis Kucinich/Ron Paul type of guy. I will admit, I'm not totally happy with Obama's foreign policy decisions, but they are far preferable to the lunatic cowboy act we get from Republicans. I don't read intelligence briefings from the Pentagon, so I'm not going to pretend like I know what I'm talking about there. (Trump has access, but according to inside sources, he doesn't read them either.) What I do know, is that we see fewer casualties of war worldwide under Democrats. Under Democratic administrations, we see more competent diplomacy, and less wars based on lies.
The casualties are coming in faster than ever. Not only from battlefields overseas, but also from concerts, classrooms, and protests. For the love of God, open your fucking eyes. Your brothers and sisters are dying.