Empathy is the best tool

[Thumpalumpacus]

The whole idea of thinking about trump and reparations is choice.  Maybe presidents do have more power.  Maybe they're fucking genies.  Donald Trump, though, would absolutely never do such a thing.  He's more into executing black people than paying them out.  The Whites didn't crown him by accident.

It's $100B they'd rather sink into even more militarized policing.

Odds are more than even that that guy Trump shoots on Fifth Ave and still gets elected is brown. And now Trump's in charge of law enforcement in America.

[SYZ]

Empathetic is probably the last true emotion I'd ascribe
to an ignorant narcissist like Donald Trump.

During the 2016 presidential debate, Hillary Clinton raised
a 1973 federal lawsuit brought against Donald Trump and
his company for racial discrimination at the Trump's housing
developments in New York.

The Justice Department sued Donald Trump, his father, Fred,
in order to obtain a settlement in which Trump and his father
would promise not to discriminate. The case eventually was
settled two years later after Trump tried to counter-sue the
Justice Department for $100 million for making false statements.
Those allegations were, of course, dismissed by the court.

Donald started his career, in 1973, by being sued because he
would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African
Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for
him understood that was the policy.

The lawsuit alleged that black people who went to Trump buildings
were told there were no apartments available, while white people
were offered the same units.

Washington Post reporter Michael Kranish, wrote that the Justice
Department considered the case "one of the most significant race
bias cases" at the time.

So, for more than 50 years now, Trump has been a racist arsehole.
A truly great characterisation for a US president.   Not.   

[Phaedrus]

Trump is the epitome of a conman who shifts his allegiance to whichever aspect of society can do the most for him. It's why he so easily switched from a democratic mindset to a MAGAt one.

[Huggy Bear]

So, for more than 50 years now, Trump has been a racist arsehole.
A truly great characterisation for a US president.   Not.   

So we're just going to forget about Joe Biden and his pal Robert Byrd who was an exalted cyclops of the KKK.


"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


Biden referred to him as his friend, mentor and guide. Biden also was responsible for the 1994 crime bill that mass incarcerated a lot of black folk. Trump hasn't had any policies that negativity affected, in fact, his immigration policies are getting the undocumenteds up outta here which frees up jobs. Trump also is reinstating the black native Americans (who were reclassified as negro) tribal status.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/mi...lants.html

But Mr. Grant clearly remembered Aug. 7, the day the Trump administration performed sweeping immigration raids on seven chicken plants in central Mississippi. He remembered the news flashing on his phone: 680 Hispanic workers arrested. He remembers seeing an opportunity.

“I figured there should be some jobs,” he said.

He figured right.

BTW, I've never voted in ANY election so I don't want to hear any mischaracterizations of being MAGA.

[Thumpalumpacus]

So, for more than 50 years now, Trump has been a racist arsehole.
A truly great characterisation for a US president.   Not.   

So we're just going to forget about Joe Biden and his pal Robert Byrd who was an exalted cyclops of the KKK.

... as if that justifies Trump's racism.

[SaxonX]

Robert Byrd went to great lengths to renounce both the Klan and his prior racism ( including endorsing Obama), and he was never an exalted cyclops of the KKK he called himself one but he never officially earned the rank 

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tak...-mind-race

Eugene Robinson: Robert Byrd: A Story of Change and Redemption — History News Network

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/artic...hange-and-



The 1994 crime bill was strongly supported by Black community leaders and politicians, which makes sense since Black communities were heavily impacted by the crimes the bill aimed to address.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016...ntons.html 

Analysis: Black Leaders Supported Clinton's Crime Bill

Bill Clinton Was Right: Blacks Supported the Crime Bill (And that Should Surprise No One) — History News Network




You really think making Black people take on the awful jobs that immigrants used to do is a positive thing? It seems like he just wants to push you back into the fields. Also Black Unemployment's going up 

Why Black unemployment just rose to its highest level since January 2022 | CNN Business

Black unemployment under Trump reaches its highest rate since the pandemic. Here’s what it could mean


Do I even need to point out he's been attacking anti segregation laws 

https://defendernetwork.com/news/convers...acilities/


Or attacking black history or the fact of Americas dark past 

Historians rip Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' | AP News


Or that Trumps BBB has negative  effects on black people 

https://www.theroot.com/13-ways-trumps-b...2000048082

How Trump’s Spending Bill Impacts Black Americans Most

[SYZ]

So, for more than 50 years now, Trump has been a racist arsehole.
A truly great characterisation for a US president.   Not.   

So we're just going to forget about Joe Biden and his pal Robert Byrd who was an exalted cyclops of the KKK.


"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


Biden referred to him as his friend, mentor and guide. Biden also was responsible for the 1994 crime bill that mass incarcerated a lot of black folk. Trump hasn't had any policies that negativity affected, in fact, his immigration policies are getting the undocumenteds up outta here which frees up jobs. Trump also is reinstating the black native Americans (who were reclassified as negro) tribal status.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/mi...lants.html

But Mr. Grant clearly remembered Aug. 7, the day the Trump administration performed sweeping immigration raids on seven chicken plants in central Mississippi. He remembered the news flashing on his phone: 680 Hispanic workers arrested. He remembers seeing an opportunity.

“I figured there should be some jobs,” he said.

He figured right.

BTW, I've never voted in ANY election so I don't want to hear any mischaracterizations of being MAGA.

Oh dear... so much misinformation in one single post!

Firstly, your silly appeal to hypocrisy is simply nonsensical. Biden eulogised
Robert Byrd solely as a politician.  Byrd had renounced the KKK sixty years
prior to his death for starters.  Though various prominent politicians eulogised
Byrd at his funeral, the senator was never the grand wizard (or "emperor") of
the KKK.  He was unanimously named an “Exalted Cyclops” in the early 1940s,
at age 24, which meant that he was the top officer in the local Klan. The
responsibilities for this role included merely leading meetings and initiating incoming
members.

Like your viewpoints on the sciences and religion, you seem to be living in the
1950s days of black and white TV, church for all every Sunday, and with women
nailed to kitchen and laundry floors.

And...

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) chair Karen Bass said in 2020 that she would've
supported the the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which
Biden tabled.  (If she had been in Congress then.)  

She said, “I understand very well why elected officials did what they did, because
the masses of the people in these communities were demanding it.”  Bass is right.
According to a 1994 Gallup survey, 58% of African Americans supported the crime
bill, compared to 49% of white Americans. Most black mayors, who were grappling
with a record wave of violent crime, did so as well.

Recently, James Clyburn, a member of the House leadership and one of the most
powerful African American elected officials, reflected on the reasons for his vote in
favour of the bill. “Crack cocaine was a scourge in the Black community,” he recalled.
“They wanted it out of those communities, and they had gotten very tough on drugs.
And that’s why yours truly, and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus,
voted for that 1994 crime bill.”

Twenty years earlier, prominent African American scholar, Harvard law professor
Randall Kennedy, argued that “Blacks have suffered more from being left unprotected
or under-protected by law enforcement authorities than from being mistreated as
suspects or defendants”.

And your apparent boast that; "I've never voted in ANY election" is disgraceful, simply
illustrating—again—the paucity of your intellectual acumen.  And your type of self-centredness
is one of the prime reasons that you're now suffering the depravations of Trump's
corrupt administration, plus those of his Republican-biassed Supreme Court.

   All in all, you're a true arsewipe mate.   

[Huggy Bear]

So we're just going to forget about Joe Biden and his pal Robert Byrd who was an exalted cyclops of the KKK.


"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


Biden referred to him as his friend, mentor and guide. Biden also was responsible for the 1994 crime bill that mass incarcerated a lot of black folk. Trump hasn't had any policies that negativity affected, in fact, his immigration policies are getting the undocumenteds up outta here which frees up jobs. Trump also is reinstating the black native Americans (who were reclassified as negro) tribal status.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/mi...lants.html

BTW, I've never voted in ANY election so I don't want to hear any mischaracterizations of being MAGA.

Oh dear... so much misinformation in one single post!

Firstly, your silly appeal to hypocrisy is simply nonsensical. Biden eulogised
Robert Byrd solely as a politician.  Byrd had renounced the KKK sixty years
prior to his death for starters.  Though various prominent politicians eulogised
Byrd at his funeral, the senator was never the grand wizard (or "emperor") of
the KKK.  He was unanimously named an “Exalted Cyclops” in the early 1940s,
at age 24, which meant that he was the top officer in the local Klan. The
responsibilities for this role included merely leading meetings and initiating incoming
members.

*emphasis mine*
So? If Trumps history is valid, so is his.

Like your viewpoints on the sciences and religion, you seem to be living in the
1950s days of black and white TV, church for all every Sunday, and with women
nailed to kitchen and laundry floors.

And...

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) chair Karen Bass said in 2020 that she would've
supported the the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which
Biden tabled.  (If she had been in Congress then.)  

She said, “I understand very well why elected officials did what they did, because
the masses of the people in these communities were demanding it.”  Bass is right.
According to a 1994 Gallup survey, 58% of African Americans supported the crime
bill, compared to 49% of white Americans. Most black mayors, who were grappling
with a record wave of violent crime, did so as well.

Recently, James Clyburn, a member of the House leadership and one of the most
powerful African American elected officials, reflected on the reasons for his vote in
favour of the bill. “Crack cocaine was a scourge in the Black community,” he recalled.
“They wanted it out of those communities, and they had gotten very tough on drugs.
And that’s why yours truly, and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus,
voted for that 1994 crime bill.”

Twenty years earlier, prominent African American scholar, Harvard law professor
Randall Kennedy, argued that “Blacks have suffered more from being left unprotected
or under-protected by law enforcement authorities than from being mistreated as
suspects or defendants”.

And your apparent boast that; "I've never voted in ANY election" is disgraceful, simply
illustrating—again—the paucity of your intellectual acumen.  And your type of self-centredness
is one of the prime reasons that you're now suffering the depravations of Trump's
corrupt administration, plus those of his Republican-biassed Supreme Court.

   All in all, you're a true arsewipe mate.   

*emphasis mine*

But it was the very same government that put the crack cocaine in the black community to begin with, what did the black caucus have to say about that? Absolutely nothing.

[SaxonX]

I love how Huggy misses the point completely 

1. Robert Byrd demonstrated that he had renounced his racism, while Trump has not. Trump may not be as vocal about it as he used to be, but this is a man who once called for the execution of innocent Black men and accused Black employees of being lazy.


2. Why didn’t a prominent Black organization speak out against the government? Why did so many polls among Black people showed support for the tough-on-crime stance that led to the ’94 bill? Maybe Huggy should question why his community seems so intent on incarcerating its own members.


3.MAGA is a mindset, not just a voting record.