subgenius wrote:point being, not the award but the company he kept.... Ali, Parks, Jesse Jackson, etc, are all seemingly tolerant in their photographs with the company of a white supremist racist. dude.
Washington – The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Monday that President Donald Trump should stop attacking U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, and that he is worried that the president's focus on the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota is putting her in danger.
"She should not be attacked and vilified by the president for taking the positions she takes," Jackson said in a phone interview. "It's not fair but it's also very dangerous."
Jackson's office contacted the Star Tribune to say he had thoughts on Trump and Omar that he wanted to share. A modern civil rights icon and one-time Democratic candidate for president, Jackson drew a parallel with Martin Luther King, whom he worked alongside in the 1960s in pursuit of equal rights for black Americans
"The government defamed Dr. King. And made him an object of hate. And he was killed," Jackson said. "For marching, he was vilified by the government. He was made an object of fear."
Members of King's family and others who were close to him have long believed that his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 stemmed from a conspiracy by the U.S. government.
Of Trump, Jackson said: "He's making people afraid of her, and it's going to produce violence. Her safety is at stake."
The White House declined to comment on Jackson's remarks. Omar's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly criticized Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen of color in public remarks and on Twitter. He has particularly singled out Omar, asserting falsely that she has said she hates the United States and loves al-Qaida. He has also called her anti-Semitic; Omar has apologized for several remarks she made earlier this year that were condemned by many Jewish groups and leaders for playing on anti-Semitic tropes. Last week at a political rally in North Carolina, Trump's attacks on Omar prompted the crowd to start chanting "send her back." Omar was born in Somalia and became an American citizen in 2000.
Trump disavowed the chants the day after the rally amid rebukes from some prominent Republicans. But he has since called those in the audience "incredible patriots."
Jackson is founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a group that works to further civil rights and social justice. He said he believes Trump is intentionally employing racist appeals and cracking down on immigrants and refugees in order to "distract, divide and conquer" the American people.
"It gives him a way to gain a kind of momentum he thinks he needs," Jackson said. He also said he believes that more of Omar's colleagues in Congress should be vocal in defense of her and the three other congresswomen whom Trump has attacked.
I think you can call yourself a Republican and not agree with Trumpism. I think that if Trumpism is to be eventually defeated, we're gonna need people who reject what Donald Trump stands for, but support the Republican party.
But it's hard to vote for very many Republican politicians without that act giving meaningful support to Donald Trump and everything he stands for. And those opportunities are getting smaller and smaller as time passes. The Republican party is filled to the brim with politicians providing both explicit and tacit support for Donald Trump's actions while doing everything they can to defeat efforts to hold him to account. And the politicians who aren't doing this are still providing the caucus numbers necessary to give sufficient political power to those who will. So it's a tricky spot a Republican voter finds themselves in these days. How do you call yourself a Republican while opposing virtually all Republicans at every level of the party?
EAllusion wrote:I think you can call yourself a Republican and not agree with Trumpism. I think that if Trumpism is to be eventually defeated, we're gonna need people who reject what Donald Trump stands for, but support the Republican party.
But it's hard to vote for very many Republican politicians without that act giving meaningful support to Donald Trump and everything he stands for. And those opportunities are getting smaller and smaller as time passes. The Republican party is filled to the brim with politicians providing both explicit and tacit support for Donald Trump's actions while doing everything they can to defeat efforts to hold him to account. And the politicians who aren't doing this are still providing the caucus numbers necessary to give sufficient political power to those who will. So it's a tricky spot a Republican voter finds themselves in these days. How do you call yourself a Republican while opposing virtually all Republicans at every level of the party?
All this said, there are people who vote Republican because they are concerned about having their ability to light the kick-ass fireworks curtailed and genuinely don't understand the President has nothing to do with that. There are people who vote Republican because they disliked the rain on election day. Not everyone voting Republican is really considering things like this.
Clinton took so much flak for her "basket of deplorables" comments that she walked back, but were essentially correct in the first place. The whole point of her speech was to not write off all Trump voters because only about half of them are incorrigible bigots. And if you look at the polling data, it is about half of them that consistently agree to statements that express serious bigotry. But lots of people vote for reasons that don't make a lot of sense to people who pay attention to what's going on in the world and have some sense of the relationship between their voting behavior and political action. I agree with Clinton that it's hard to just write them off. Ignorance and indifference in the service of horrible leaders is frustrating, but not everyone thinks about this enough to attribute dastardly motives to their behavior.
subgenius wrote:point being, not the award but the company he kept.... Ali, Parks, Jesse Jackson, etc, are all seemingly tolerant in their photographs with the company of a white supremist racist. dude.
Translation:
“Dude, Trump was at the same award ceremony as some black dudes and ended up in a picture with them. That totally proves that this is the company he keeps and isn’t a racist!!1!”
Funnily enough the photo isn't even from the Ellis Island awards.
And the award itself was presented by a group founded by Trump business associate Bill Fugazy, whose last name has become a NY colloquialism for fakes and frauds. The term even made it's way into the mob movie Donnie Brasco
The Fugazy connection is perfection. Few outside of NYC have any memory of him, but for those who remember, the rest of the story isn’t important. Oh, Fugazy was involved? Enough said.
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy.- Super Hans
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.- H. L. Mencken
MissTish wrote:Funnily enough the photo isn't even from the Ellis Island awards.
And the award itself was presented by a group founded by Trump business associate Bill Fugazy, whose last name has become a NY colloquialism for fakes and frauds.
The Fugazy connection is perfection. Few outside of NYC have any memory of him, but for those who remember, the rest of the story isn’t important. Oh, Fugazy was involved? Enough said.
I don't know who Fugazy is. I've been gone too long.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
EAllusion wrote:If Trump goes down, the number of people claiming to have always been an anti-Trump Republican is going to skyrocket, though.
Well. If it's any small consolation, my TBM BIL and his wife talked openly about their disgusted with Trump and didn't vote for him (at least that's what they said since I wasn't in the voting booth with them).
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
EAllusion wrote:How do you call yourself a Republican while opposing virtually all Republicans at every level of the party?
You're a registered Republican going through identity crisis.
Maybe. Then again what's important to my TBM inlaws are lower taxes, not killing future humans, religious deference, Conservative judges, legal immigration, etc. I will tell you that word on the street is that the ballooning national debt is freaking them out, but I have no idea how that'll play out in 2020 since both sides are just going for it with regard to the debt.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
MissTish wrote:Funnily enough the photo isn't even from the Ellis Island awards.
And the award itself was presented by a group founded by Trump business associate Bill Fugazy, whose last name has become a NY colloquialism for fakes and frauds.
The Fugazy connection is perfection. Few outside of NYC have any memory of him, but for those who remember, the rest of the story isn’t important. Oh, Fugazy was involved? Enough said.
I don't know who Fugazy is. I've been gone too long.
You can't be expected to remember every crooked businessman/convicted felon that ever came out of this city. That list is far too long
Clinton pardoned him later, at the urging of John Catsimatidis- a prominent NY GOP donor.
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy.- Super Hans
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.- H. L. Mencken
