Posted on 10/19/2016 9:12:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s ‘Make America great again’ slogan and this Republican Congress's actions raise unanswered questions
Recently I appeared at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., for a talk entitled “Making America As Good As Its Promise.” So you don’t confuse the theme of my talk with the slogan of a particular presidential campaign, let me delineate the difference.
When I hear Donald Trump suggest that he wants to “make America great again,” it always triggers the same three questions in my head.
One: How is Trump defining “greatness”? I’m not sure he and I share an understanding of what makes a nation truly great. For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed, how you embrace equality as you labor for equity. Equality means that everyone gets the same in America, whether they need it or not. Equity says we commit to ensuring that all fellow citizens have the basic resources that will give them commensurate opportunities to contribute meaningfully to our society....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Tavis Smiley is a racist, pure and simple!
For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed...
What a martyr.
I’d LOVE to see how he lives life and treats people when he’s not typing garbage.
I’ll bet it’s pretty lousy.
HilLIARy and the DNC have basically been enslaving black Americans for many years
and Obama has destroyed MANY MANY jobs, further impoverishing lots of black Americans (along with most of the rest of us)
Mr Trump may be able to start genuinely emancipating black people ... by helping create many new jobs and opportunities
a vote for HilLIARy is a vote for further impoverishment, alienation, exclusion, and rip-off of black Americans
Time is still around?
Shocked.
Here we go away with playing the “bring back slavery” card. Remember who was it Biden who stated in 2008 or 12 that Blacks would be put in “shackles and chains” again.
More faculty lounge circumlocution.
That headline is so over the top ridiculous that I couldn’t bring myself to actually read the article.
What an effing moron, the welfare state has ALREADY enslaved the black people and many other minority and majority groups as well...
Alternative title? “Why I fear America will set the Tax Slaves Free.”
The average IQ is 85 for some groups. But, of course, many members of the group are below that average. And apparently they are employed as “journalists”. On the plantation. Of the old white lady who wants to move into the Big House.
Someone needs to tell Tavis what it means to be a great country. It means getting rid of violence, encouraging children to get an education and avoid crime, closing off the borders to stop drug cartels and illegal parasites, and respecting traditions. If that’s racist, then yes. I’m a racist.
Communism is slavery, Tavis.
Stop advocating for it.
This guy needs mental help!!!
Insane - another case of a Black with “Stockholm Syndrome” - backing those who would actually enslave Blacks and having “concerns” that the guy who wants them to take their rightful place as responsible citizens as the oppressor....Blacks have more to fear from Travis than they do Trump.
The author essentially says anything other than socialism and Communism is not great.
There is such deliberate misinformation in the article, that it is pure leftist propaganda. There is virtually no truth in it.
Hillary Clinton supports chopping babies into small pieces with a dull knife. Hillary Clinton supports poisoning babies with concentrated brine. Hillary Clinton supports stabbing babies in the back of the head with scissors. The ENTIRE DAMNED DEMOCRAT PARTY supports these things.
How 'bout you, Tavis?
Tavis???
Hello! Hello!
You out there, Tavis?
Re : Post # 9 ~
What an effing moron, the welfare state has ALREADY enslaved the black people and many other minority and majority groups as well...
Exactly. Go, Trump, GO!
all he wants to do is steal ( involuntary taxes ) from people he dislikes and give the loot to people he likes
that’s not charity
that’s stealing
Make America racist again! Thanks for the heads up, Tavis... /s
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