Could Malcolm X have said it any better? I mean wow just wow. Could it be any more relevant? I’m waiting for Kobe on this one.
It's always funny to see the Tug occasionally intersect with black nationalism. The whole idea of "the welfare state has created an unhealthy dependency and caused untold damage to the black community" is a pretty mainstream argument, though certainly not one the wokes subscribe to.
It's always funny to see @GreenRiverGatorz intersect with trying to be intellectual.
If the wokes aren't tethered to the welfare state, let's just shut 'er down asap and really put this woke life on steroids. So are you for wokes are against wokes?
In case you haven't been paying attention I hate wokes. Go ahead and jot that down for future use.
Noted. Supposedly against wokes
You may want to take a technical writing course because the fact that the Throbber questions whether you and @MelloDawgFaggot share a shill brain indicates you’re not communicating effectively.
GRG with the supposed strong feelings against woke, just not a voting issue because of high character of woke leftards in the dem party that run our MSM, social media, both houses of Congress and of course the dementia patient in charge.
You keep repeating this "voting issue" line. I don't know if it's because you're dumb and have me confused with Yella, or if it's just another unoriginal tagline that you enjoy droning on about. Or abundance.
Well, what did I say that you disagree with? You the one voting for leftards not me. Man up and tell me which particular policy positions have you voting for dems?
I figured it was abundance.
But since you so politely asked, I'm happy to reiterate what I've responded with before. Unsurprisingly, I found Trump to be an incompetent boob and voted accordingly. I've said as much many times. Him and I actually agree on a fair amount of policy, namely his China stance and "general" approach to immigration. I've also said that a few times. But given the aforementioned incompetence, I had zero faith in his ability to actually achieve anything in those arenas. The fact that he's very mean and orange didn't win him any more points with me.
So you decided to go with Joe Biden's "competent" immigration policy and China sell out. What's it like using the emotional response of a 13 girl to decide how you vote?
I'm not tethered to Biden since I'm not a partisan dipshit like you. His immigration policy has been an abject failure from the get-go and I've happily flung him shit for it. You of all people should know that since you have an encyclopedia on this place.
You're tethered to being a fucking moron. You voted for Biden because Trump's immigration policy was "incompetent." That's about as fucking stupid as it gets. Who cares that you give Biden shit now? Anyone paying attention knew Biden was going to be a fucking disaster when it came to immigration long before the election yet when you had a chance to do something about it, you voted for Biden. Tell me again who the dipshit is here?
You should try reading that again. It has not been a very good literacy day for the Tug.
Give me a policy where Biden has shown competency.
No. I would genuinely rather watch you spaz out for the next few weeks chasing that high you get when you think you have someone cornered.
So you can't cite anything. Got it. To have someone "cornered" they have to put forth some kind of fight. Running and hiding like a Kunt's not really much of battle where I come from.
See, called it.
You called what? You refuse to back up your mouth and I happen to take notice of it? Wow, you're a regular fucking Kreskin.
For your next "prediction" I'll bet if were to shit your pants, I'd say you smelled.
Could Malcolm X have said it any better? I mean wow just wow. Could it be any more relevant? I’m waiting for Kobe on this one.
It's always funny to see the Tug occasionally intersect with black nationalism. The whole idea of "the welfare state has created an unhealthy dependency and caused untold damage to the black community" is a pretty mainstream argument, though certainly not one the wokes subscribe to.
It's always funny to see @GreenRiverGatorz intersect with trying to be intellectual.
If the wokes aren't tethered to the welfare state, let's just shut 'er down asap and really put this woke life on steroids. So are you for wokes are against wokes?
In case you haven't been paying attention I hate wokes. Go ahead and jot that down for future use.
Noted. Supposedly against wokes
You may want to take a technical writing course because the fact that the Throbber questions whether you and @MelloDawgFaggot share a shill brain indicates you’re not communicating effectively.
GRG with the supposed strong feelings against woke, just not a voting issue because of high character of woke leftards in the dem party that run our MSM, social media, both houses of Congress and of course the dementia patient in charge.
You keep repeating this "voting issue" line. I don't know if it's because you're dumb and have me confused with Yella, or if it's just another unoriginal tagline that you enjoy droning on about. Or abundance.
Well, what did I say that you disagree with? You the one voting for leftards not me. Man up and tell me which particular policy positions have you voting for dems?
I figured it was abundance.
But since you so politely asked, I'm happy to reiterate what I've responded with before. Unsurprisingly, I found Trump to be an incompetent boob and voted accordingly. I've said as much many times. Him and I actually agree on a fair amount of policy, namely his China stance and "general" approach to immigration. I've also said that a few times. But given the aforementioned incompetence, I had zero faith in his ability to actually achieve anything in those arenas. The fact that he's very mean and orange didn't win him any more points with me.
So you decided to go with Joe Biden's "competent" immigration policy and China sell out. What's it like using the emotional response of a 13 girl to decide how you vote?
I'm not tethered to Biden since I'm not a partisan dipshit like you. His immigration policy has been an abject failure from the get-go and I've happily flung him shit for it. You of all people should know that since you have an encyclopedia on this place.
and Trump's policy was working....not as well as it could have and should have, in large part because of the open borders globalists and bleeding heart buffoons, but it was a hell of a lot better than this mess
On immigration? Totally agree, I'm not sure you could point to a bigger clusterfuck in the history of our border than the current situation.
Yeah but Trump was incompetent. Weird you can't cite for us an area where the guy you voted for is competent.
GRG voted on MSM fueled feelz. Trying to even the trading field with the chicoms was incompetent. Calling it the china virus was incompetent. Securing the border was incompetent. But Bought and Paid for Slo Joe will just roll over for the chicoms and that's competent. Open borders are competent. Geezus how phucked in the head do you have to be to hate the US and vote for the away team.
Could Malcolm X have said it any better? I mean wow just wow. Could it be any more relevant? I’m waiting for Kobe on this one.
It's always funny to see the Tug occasionally intersect with black nationalism. The whole idea of "the welfare state has created an unhealthy dependency and caused untold damage to the black community" is a pretty mainstream argument, though certainly not one the wokes subscribe to.
It's always funny to see @GreenRiverGatorz intersect with trying to be intellectual.
If the wokes aren't tethered to the welfare state, let's just shut 'er down asap and really put this woke life on steroids. So are you for wokes are against wokes?
In case you haven't been paying attention I hate wokes. Go ahead and jot that down for future use.
Noted. Supposedly against wokes
You may want to take a technical writing course because the fact that the Throbber questions whether you and @MelloDawgFaggot share a shill brain indicates you’re not communicating effectively.
GRG with the supposed strong feelings against woke, just not a voting issue because of high character of woke leftards in the dem party that run our MSM, social media, both houses of Congress and of course the dementia patient in charge.
You keep repeating this "voting issue" line. I don't know if it's because you're dumb and have me confused with Yella, or if it's just another unoriginal tagline that you enjoy droning on about. Or abundance.
Well, what did I say that you disagree with? You the one voting for leftards not me. Man up and tell me which particular policy positions have you voting for dems?
I figured it was abundance.
But since you so politely asked, I'm happy to reiterate what I've responded with before. Unsurprisingly, I found Trump to be an incompetent boob and voted accordingly. I've said as much many times. Him and I actually agree on a fair amount of policy, namely his China stance and "general" approach to immigration. I've also said that a few times. But given the aforementioned incompetence, I had zero faith in his ability to actually achieve anything in those arenas. The fact that he's very mean and orange didn't win him any more points with me.
So you decided to go with Joe Biden's "competent" immigration policy and China sell out. What's it like using the emotional response of a 13 girl to decide how you vote?
I'm not tethered to Biden since I'm not a partisan dipshit like you. His immigration policy has been an abject failure from the get-go and I've happily flung him shit for it. You of all people should know that since you have an encyclopedia on this place.
and Trump's policy was working....not as well as it could have and should have, in large part because of the open borders globalists and bleeding heart buffoons, but it was a hell of a lot better than this mess
On immigration? Totally agree, I'm not sure you could point to a bigger clusterfuck in the history of our border than the current situation.
Yeah but Trump was incompetent. Weird you can't cite for us an area where the guy you voted for is competent.
GRG voted on MSM fueled feelz. Trying to even the trading field with the chicoms was incompetent. Calling it the china virus was incompetent. Securing the border was incompetent. But Bought and Paid for Slo Joe will just roll over for the chicoms and that's competent. Open borders are competent. Geezus how phucked in the head do you have to be to hate the US and vote for the away team.
You'll notice that he cites no examples of Trump's supposed "incompetence" and offers zero examples of Biden's "competence." That's not an oversight. It's just the way liberal Kunts who can't back up their mouths love to argue. They feel it makes them appear more thoughtful and intelligent if they hold themselves above the messy world of politics. You see, you and I are blind "partisans" and bad, while GRG is above the political fray and non-partisan and good. The reality is that GRG confuses being a fucking coward and a lightweight with being non-partisan.
When he let go of the side of the kiddie pool and informed us that it was the Republicans fault for not fixing the problems with police forces in Blue cities GRG screamed exactly who and what he is. A clueless fucking moron who hides behind his little down votes and his supposed non-partisanship to mask the fact he knows he is fucking lightweight who is driven entirely by his feelings.
Could Malcolm X have said it any better? I mean wow just wow. Could it be any more relevant? I’m waiting for Kobe on this one.
It's always funny to see the Tug occasionally intersect with black nationalism. The whole idea of "the welfare state has created an unhealthy dependency and caused untold damage to the black community" is a pretty mainstream argument, though certainly not one the wokes subscribe to.
It's always funny to see @GreenRiverGatorz intersect with trying to be intellectual.
If the wokes aren't tethered to the welfare state, let's just shut 'er down asap and really put this woke life on steroids. So are you for wokes are against wokes?
In case you haven't been paying attention I hate wokes. Go ahead and jot that down for future use.
Noted. Supposedly against wokes
You may want to take a technical writing course because the fact that the Throbber questions whether you and @MelloDawgFaggot share a shill brain indicates you’re not communicating effectively.
GRG with the supposed strong feelings against woke, just not a voting issue because of high character of woke leftards in the dem party that run our MSM, social media, both houses of Congress and of course the dementia patient in charge.
You keep repeating this "voting issue" line. I don't know if it's because you're dumb and have me confused with Yella, or if it's just another unoriginal tagline that you enjoy droning on about. Or abundance.
Well, what did I say that you disagree with? You the one voting for leftards not me. Man up and tell me which particular policy positions have you voting for dems?
I figured it was abundance.
But since you so politely asked, I'm happy to reiterate what I've responded with before. Unsurprisingly, I found Trump to be an incompetent boob and voted accordingly. I've said as much many times. Him and I actually agree on a fair amount of policy, namely his China stance and "general" approach to immigration. I've also said that a few times. But given the aforementioned incompetence, I had zero faith in his ability to actually achieve anything in those arenas. The fact that he's very mean and orange didn't win him any more points with me.
No one likes how Trump talks. He got more done in 4 years than anyone in my lifetime. He was for America which we all knew Xiden was not. He's for whoever pays him and his kid the most. You voted for that a shit economy terrible immigration control, out of control spending and lockdowns among various and a sundried communist positions, the GND and Hunter.
Holy shit that's some serious hate right there to throw away the country with Biden and the left. You stand with China.
Could Malcolm X have said it any better? I mean wow just wow. Could it be any more relevant? I’m waiting for Kobe on this one.
It's always funny to see the Tug occasionally intersect with black nationalism. The whole idea of "the welfare state has created an unhealthy dependency and caused untold damage to the black community" is a pretty mainstream argument, though certainly not one the wokes subscribe to.
It's always funny to see @GreenRiverGatorz intersect with trying to be intellectual.
If the wokes aren't tethered to the welfare state, let's just shut 'er down asap and really put this woke life on steroids. So are you for wokes are against wokes?
In case you haven't been paying attention I hate wokes. Go ahead and jot that down for future use.
Noted. Supposedly against wokes
You may want to take a technical writing course because the fact that the Throbber questions whether you and @MelloDawgFaggot share a shill brain indicates you’re not communicating effectively.
GRG with the supposed strong feelings against woke, just not a voting issue because of high character of woke leftards in the dem party that run our MSM, social media, both houses of Congress and of course the dementia patient in charge.
You keep repeating this "voting issue" line. I don't know if it's because you're dumb and have me confused with Yella, or if it's just another unoriginal tagline that you enjoy droning on about. Or abundance.
Well, what did I say that you disagree with? You the one voting for leftards not me. Man up and tell me which particular policy positions have you voting for dems?
I figured it was abundance.
But since you so politely asked, I'm happy to reiterate what I've responded with before. Unsurprisingly, I found Trump to be an incompetent boob and voted accordingly. I've said as much many times. Him and I actually agree on a fair amount of policy, namely his China stance and "general" approach to immigration. I've also said that a few times. But given the aforementioned incompetence, I had zero faith in his ability to actually achieve anything in those arenas. The fact that he's very mean and orange didn't win him any more points with me.
So you decided to go with Joe Biden's "competent" immigration policy and China sell out. What's it like using the emotional response of a 13 girl to decide how you vote?
I'm not tethered to Biden since I'm not a partisan dipshit like you. His immigration policy has been an abject failure from the get-go and I've happily flung him shit for it. You of all people should know that since you have an encyclopedia on this place.
and Trump's policy was working....not as well as it could have and should have, in large part because of the open borders globalists and bleeding heart buffoons, but it was a hell of a lot better than this mess
On immigration? Totally agree, I'm not sure you could point to a bigger clusterfuck in the history of our border than the current situation.
Yeah but Trump was incompetent. Weird you can't cite for us an area where the guy you voted for is competent.
GRG voted on MSM fueled feelz. Trying to even the trading field with the chicoms was incompetent. Calling it the china virus was incompetent. Securing the border was incompetent. But Bought and Paid for Slo Joe will just roll over for the chicoms and that's competent. Open borders are competent. Geezus how phucked in the head do you have to be to hate the US and vote for the away team.
You'll notice that he cites no examples of Trump's supposed "incompetence" and offers zero examples of Biden's "competence." That's not an oversight. It's just the way liberal Kunts who can't back up their mouths love to argue. They feel it makes them appear more thoughtful and intelligent if they hold themselves above the messy world of politics. You see, you and I are blind "partisans" and bad, while GRG is above the political fray and non-partisan and good. The reality is that GRG confuses being a fucking coward and a lightweight with being non-partisan.
When he let go of the side of the kiddie pool and informed us that it was the Republicans fault for not fixing the problems with police forces in Blue cities GRG screamed exactly who and what he is. A clueless fucking moron who hides behind his little down votes and his supposed non-partisanship to mask the fact he knows he is fucking lightweight who is driven entirely by his feelings.
Leftards gargle with this sh*t then swallow like it came directly from barry. Glad that our dems in Congress and the White House support this BLM crap. I know it is the high character road to take, so it's not a voting issue.
WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE RACISM:
The other day, I got into a little spat with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 Project, because she peddled to CBS the idea that modern policing has a “direct lineage” to slave patrols because, “in certain parts of the country,” slave patrols were deputized to catch slaves. She’s right about that—to a point. And we’ll return to that point in a second.
But in the course of our spat, she said that “no one has ever argued that global policing or policing as an idea was invented in the American South.” This was a strange thing for her to say, because she actually claimed to have read my column on this subject, which begins:
“Policing itself started out as slave patrols. We know that,” Rep. James Clyburn declared in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier.
As I noted, Clyburn was hardly alone. But here’s a more recent example, from last Sunday’s This Week. Angela Rye, the former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, said (emphasis mine):
The Columbus Police Department isn’t about one bad apple. It’s about an entire department. So we have to talk about qualified immunity without fighting with buzzwords, but really talking about how we solve for a system that by design from its inception was designed to capture and return and enslave people back to their masters. If we can’t uproot what was intended, we will forever have this problem, and we have to be willing to have honest discourse.
I particularly love the “honest discourse” shoutout.
Let me type this slowly so everyone can understand: The Columbus Division of Police, established in 1816, was not founded as a slave patrol. Ohio was not a slave state. In 1841, it passed a law that runaway slaves were automatically free once they made it to Ohio. Similarly, the Minneapolis Police Department, founded two years after the end of the Civil War, wasn’t built upon slave patrolling and has no “lineage”—direct or tangential—to slave patrolling.
The police officer who shot a black teen about to plunge a knife into another black teen was not in any way connected to slave patrolling. Derek Chauvin was not living down to the legacy of slave patrolling. Even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison conceded to 60 Minutes this week that prosecutors couldn’t find any evidence that Chauvin was racist or that his crime was racially motivated. If you know anything about Ellison, you’ll know he wanted to find such evidence.
Even the connection to slave patrolling in southern cities is, at best, literary. Does anyone actually believe that Rodney Bryant, the chief of police in Atlanta, sees himself as part of some great unbroken chain in the long tradition of slave patrolling? Of course not. And not just because Bryant is black, or because cops are not trained and educated in slave patrol tactics, but also because slavery has been illegal in the United States for 158 years, three months, and 27 days.
Could Malcolm X have said it any better? I mean wow just wow. Could it be any more relevant? I’m waiting for Kobe on this one.
It's always funny to see the Tug occasionally intersect with black nationalism. The whole idea of "the welfare state has created an unhealthy dependency and caused untold damage to the black community" is a pretty mainstream argument, though certainly not one the wokes subscribe to.
It's always funny to see @GreenRiverGatorz intersect with trying to be intellectual.
If the wokes aren't tethered to the welfare state, let's just shut 'er down asap and really put this woke life on steroids. So are you for wokes are against wokes?
In case you haven't been paying attention I hate wokes. Go ahead and jot that down for future use.
Noted. Supposedly against wokes
You may want to take a technical writing course because the fact that the Throbber questions whether you and @MelloDawgFaggot share a shill brain indicates you’re not communicating effectively.
GRG with the supposed strong feelings against woke, just not a voting issue because of high character of woke leftards in the dem party that run our MSM, social media, both houses of Congress and of course the dementia patient in charge.
You keep repeating this "voting issue" line. I don't know if it's because you're dumb and have me confused with Yella, or if it's just another unoriginal tagline that you enjoy droning on about. Or abundance.
Well, what did I say that you disagree with? You the one voting for leftards not me. Man up and tell me which particular policy positions have you voting for dems?
I figured it was abundance.
But since you so politely asked, I'm happy to reiterate what I've responded with before. Unsurprisingly, I found Trump to be an incompetent boob and voted accordingly. I've said as much many times. Him and I actually agree on a fair amount of policy, namely his China stance and "general" approach to immigration. I've also said that a few times. But given the aforementioned incompetence, I had zero faith in his ability to actually achieve anything in those arenas. The fact that he's very mean and orange didn't win him any more points with me.
So you decided to go with Joe Biden's "competent" immigration policy and China sell out. What's it like using the emotional response of a 13 girl to decide how you vote?
I'm not tethered to Biden since I'm not a partisan dipshit like you. His immigration policy has been an abject failure from the get-go and I've happily flung him shit for it. You of all people should know that since you have an encyclopedia on this place.
and Trump's policy was working....not as well as it could have and should have, in large part because of the open borders globalists and bleeding heart buffoons, but it was a hell of a lot better than this mess
On immigration? Totally agree, I'm not sure you could point to a bigger clusterfuck in the history of our border than the current situation.
Yeah but Trump was incompetent. Weird you can't cite for us an area where the guy you voted for is competent.
GRG voted on MSM fueled feelz. Trying to even the trading field with the chicoms was incompetent. Calling it the china virus was incompetent. Securing the border was incompetent. But Bought and Paid for Slo Joe will just roll over for the chicoms and that's competent. Open borders are competent. Geezus how phucked in the head do you have to be to hate the US and vote for the away team.
You'll notice that he cites no examples of Trump's supposed "incompetence" and offers zero examples of Biden's "competence." That's not an oversight. It's just the way liberal Kunts who can't back up their mouths love to argue. They feel it makes them appear more thoughtful and intelligent if they hold themselves above the messy world of politics. You see, you and I are blind "partisans" and bad, while GRG is above the political fray and non-partisan and good. The reality is that GRG confuses being a fucking coward and a lightweight with being non-partisan.
When he let go of the side of the kiddie pool and informed us that it was the Republicans fault for not fixing the problems with police forces in Blue cities GRG screamed exactly who and what he is. A clueless fucking moron who hides behind his little down votes and his supposed non-partisanship to mask the fact he knows he is fucking lightweight who is driven entirely by his feelings.
Leftards gargle with this sh*t then swallow like it came directly from barry. Glad that our dems in Congress and the White House support this BLM crap. I know it is the high character road to take, so it's not a voting issue.
WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE RACISM:
The other day, I got into a little spat with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 Project, because she peddled to CBS the idea that modern policing has a “direct lineage” to slave patrols because, “in certain parts of the country,” slave patrols were deputized to catch slaves. She’s right about that—to a point. And we’ll return to that point in a second.
But in the course of our spat, she said that “no one has ever argued that global policing or policing as an idea was invented in the American South.” This was a strange thing for her to say, because she actually claimed to have read my column on this subject, which begins:
“Policing itself started out as slave patrols. We know that,” Rep. James Clyburn declared in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier.
As I noted, Clyburn was hardly alone. But here’s a more recent example, from last Sunday’s This Week. Angela Rye, the former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, said (emphasis mine):
The Columbus Police Department isn’t about one bad apple. It’s about an entire department. So we have to talk about qualified immunity without fighting with buzzwords, but really talking about how we solve for a system that by design from its inception was designed to capture and return and enslave people back to their masters. If we can’t uproot what was intended, we will forever have this problem, and we have to be willing to have honest discourse.
I particularly love the “honest discourse” shoutout.
Let me type this slowly so everyone can understand: The Columbus Division of Police, established in 1816, was not founded as a slave patrol. Ohio was not a slave state. In 1841, it passed a law that runaway slaves were automatically free once they made it to Ohio. Similarly, the Minneapolis Police Department, founded two years after the end of the Civil War, wasn’t built upon slave patrolling and has no “lineage”—direct or tangential—to slave patrolling.
The police officer who shot a black teen about to plunge a knife into another black teen was not in any way connected to slave patrolling. Derek Chauvin was not living down to the legacy of slave patrolling. Even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison conceded to 60 Minutes this week that prosecutors couldn’t find any evidence that Chauvin was racist or that his crime was racially motivated. If you know anything about Ellison, you’ll know he wanted to find such evidence.
Even the connection to slave patrolling in southern cities is, at best, literary. Does anyone actually believe that Rodney Bryant, the chief of police in Atlanta, sees himself as part of some great unbroken chain in the long tradition of slave patrolling? Of course not. And not just because Bryant is black, or because cops are not trained and educated in slave patrol tactics, but also because slavery has been illegal in the United States for 158 years, three months, and 27 days.
One thing you have to hand to the left is how quickly they can get their talking points out there and into the mouths of their idiot supporters.
There are police in every 1st world country. Hell even most all 3rd world countries have some form or policing authority. But to an idiot leftist, policing was born out American slavery.
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For your next "prediction" I'll bet if were to shit your pants, I'd say you smelled.
When he let go of the side of the kiddie pool and informed us that it was the Republicans fault for not fixing the problems with police forces in Blue cities GRG screamed exactly who and what he is. A clueless fucking moron who hides behind his little down votes and his supposed non-partisanship to mask the fact he knows he is fucking lightweight who is driven entirely by his feelings.
Holy shit that's some serious hate right there to throw away the country with Biden and the left. You stand with China.
But we all know Joe didn't really win.
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WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE RACISM:
The other day, I got into a little spat with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 Project, because she peddled to CBS the idea that modern policing has a “direct lineage” to slave patrols because, “in certain parts of the country,” slave patrols were deputized to catch slaves. She’s right about that—to a point. And we’ll return to that point in a second.
But in the course of our spat, she said that “no one has ever argued that global policing or policing as an idea was invented in the American South.” This was a strange thing for her to say, because she actually claimed to have read my column on this subject, which begins:
“Policing itself started out as slave patrols. We know that,” Rep. James Clyburn declared in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier.
As I noted, Clyburn was hardly alone. But here’s a more recent example, from last Sunday’s This Week. Angela Rye, the former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, said (emphasis mine):
The Columbus Police Department isn’t about one bad apple. It’s about an entire department. So we have to talk about qualified immunity without fighting with buzzwords, but really talking about how we solve for a system that by design from its inception was designed to capture and return and enslave people back to their masters. If we can’t uproot what was intended, we will forever have this problem, and we have to be willing to have honest discourse.
I particularly love the “honest discourse” shoutout.
Let me type this slowly so everyone can understand: The Columbus Division of Police, established in 1816, was not founded as a slave patrol. Ohio was not a slave state. In 1841, it passed a law that runaway slaves were automatically free once they made it to Ohio. Similarly, the Minneapolis Police Department, founded two years after the end of the Civil War, wasn’t built upon slave patrolling and has no “lineage”—direct or tangential—to slave patrolling.
The police officer who shot a black teen about to plunge a knife into another black teen was not in any way connected to slave patrolling. Derek Chauvin was not living down to the legacy of slave patrolling. Even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison conceded to 60 Minutes this week that prosecutors couldn’t find any evidence that Chauvin was racist or that his crime was racially motivated. If you know anything about Ellison, you’ll know he wanted to find such evidence.
Even the connection to slave patrolling in southern cities is, at best, literary. Does anyone actually believe that Rodney Bryant, the chief of police in Atlanta, sees himself as part of some great unbroken chain in the long tradition of slave patrolling? Of course not. And not just because Bryant is black, or because cops are not trained and educated in slave patrol tactics, but also because slavery has been illegal in the United States for 158 years, three months, and 27 days.
There are police in every 1st world country. Hell even most all 3rd world countries have some form or policing authority. But to an idiot leftist, policing was born out American slavery.