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“All men are created equal” is only in the Declaration of Independence, it’s not in the Constitution. Is that the problem?
Trump’s bigotry is not something new
But now it is out in plain view
Hypocrisy’s been dumped
The race card’s been trumped
It’s just what Republicans do.
I read Charles Blow’s Op-Ed piece in Aug. 17th NY Times - The Other Inconvenient Truth
This part I found particularly disgusting:
In 1994 John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s domestic-policy adviser and a Watergate co-conspirator, confessed this to the author Dan Baum:
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
But look on the bright side, we’re making progress. In Charlottesville Trump blamed BOTH SIDES, in previous cases only one side got blamed. At least the half-wit was half right.
There was plenty of blame to go ‘round
In earlier deaths it was found
That the fault was one sided
And all guilt resided
In Trayvon Martin, lying dead on the ground.
… repeat ad nauseam …
Michael Brown
Eric Garner
Freddie Gray
Sandra Bland
Philando Castile …..
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