We elected the first black president and now the first Orange one. What more does that asshole want? An Asian?
Electing the first black president does nothing to change what they go through on a daily basis. I do appreciate the joke though I got a chuckle. Sure it's better today than it was 40 years ago on the racial front, but we have a ways to go and 60k people voting for David Duke in Louisiana backs that up.
But my point is it won't end if people like Van Jones blames Whitey. Whites are a large part of the solution.
If today is the first time they heard the Make America Great Again campaign slogan, they should get off twitter and their ass and do some history work. Reagan deployed it first but Slick Willie used it too. As for Take Our Country Back, go ask Howard Dean who campaigned with it and wrote two books with that in the title. How about when Hillary used it in 2008, Chuck Schumer in 2006, James Carville and Paul Begala in their book titled "Take It Back: A Battle Plan for Democratic Victory", Katrina vanden Hevuel, editor of the far-left, near-bankrupt magazine The Nation. She wrote a book titled "Taking Back America", liberal talk show host Thom Hartmann who called his book, "We the People: A Call to Take Back America". Racist spin to now claim Trump is any different than any other politician or pundit who used that phrase when it suited them. And the dems/leftists of today need to stop being so hypocritical.
Everyone has to be part of the solution. Van Jones is playing chicken little for sure, but all I'm saying is we shouldn't pretend to know how this message is being recieved, right wrong or indifferent by the African American or Latino communities.
Everyone is a hypocrite. And when republicans started saying it unless I'm missing it, it just so happened to be right after the first black president was elected. I'm not saying that's what they meant, even though I'm sure some felt that way, not the majority but some, and again I'm just saying as a white person I have no idea how I would feel if I were black so I'm not going to pretend I do.
Well I do t put up with people who say I just don't get it because I'm nonblack. Fine. Fix your own shit and leave me out of it. However, they still point the finger. I don't think it will ever be perfect, but we have it damn good here.
No. Both phrases have been used by both parties, several pundits on both sides, and Reagan first used it when he got elected in 1980. It is beyond the pale for democrats today, to be so narrow-minded and racially motivated, and to blame Trump for making up the phrase or acuse him of racism. It's totally wrong and it becomes self-fulfilling more than outside influence.
