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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (201029)	6/2/2021 5:47:48 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 362331

Read and learn, moron: theatlantic.com Excerpt: YUSEF SALAAM: I think about when they took our DNA and they tried to match it against what they had. And there was no match, and they still moved forward. The spiked wheels of justice continued to roll down the hill and mow us down. And all of this on the heels of what Donald Trump had published. Donald Trump’s ad was vicious. It was very disrespectful of what the law is supposed to be about. JONATHAN C. MOORE: I have children, and I can’t imagine my son being in prison from age 14 to age 21. You’re stealing the most innocent part of somebody’s life. None of these kids had ever had any real interactions with the law before. When they were finally vindicated, there was never any apology from Trump, or even a hint of an apology. YUSEF SALAAM: Donald Trump’s ad ran on May 1, 1989. The crime had happened April 19, 1989. We hadn’t even started trial! That was just a few weeks after we were accused. He put nails in our coffin. He’s continuing to do that by continuing to say that we are guilty, by continuing to say that the police department had so much evidence against us. What evidence did they have that stuck? They had no evidence. They had manufactured false confessions. C. VERNON MASON: In 2016—this is 26 years after the case, and 14 years after it had been proved that none of these defendants had anything to do with that rape—Donald Trump said, I still believe they’re guilty. And I guess, in his mind, he would suggest that they still should be executed.

To: i-node who wrote (201029)	6/2/2021 10:16:50 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362331

You are right. Trump had so many other ways to diss black people.

To: i-node who wrote (201029)	6/3/2021 8:26:09 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362331

I fully appreciate Bush's point. But I don't think it applies to Biden's statement. There was nothing in his point to suggest any inherent shortcoming in Black people. The generational wealth disparity, for example, is the historical fault of the system, not some inherent lack of capability on the part of Black people. There are a lot of people in this country who lack comprehension and critical thinking. Some of them are Black, like your Lavern Spicer. There was nothing in Biden's statement to suggest that black lawyers don't exist or that Biden did not realize that they exist, an inference that you also drew. (He hasn't gotten the message that some doctors, lawyers, and other professionals are . . . BLACK.) egad. It's absurd on its face. He appointed a whole bunch of Black lawyers to positions in his administration, for heaven's sake. His VP is a Black lawyer. There are also a lot of people in this country who are oversensitive. They react like PTSS before they think. Some of them are Black. One of them, seemingly, is named Will Douglas. There is a difference between inferring that Black people are inherently too stupid to find a lawyer or to be lawyers, themselves, and recognizing that Black people, in general, are less likely to have the financial resources and cultural experience to hire them.