Posted on 07/08/2016 9:53:41 AM PDT by Cecily
Never let it be said that Newt Gingrich is predictable.
As the political world waits to see if the former Georgia congressman and U.S. House speaker gets tapped to be Donald Trump’s running mate, Gingrich teamed up with his former Crossfire partner Van Jones to discuss this week’s shootings in Dallas, Baton Rouge and Minnesota.
Speaking on Facebook Live, Gingrich was his typically direct self. But, in this age of polarized politics, whether it be of the electoral or racial variety, Gingrich’s comments were also remarkable. Here is the key quote:
“It took me a long time, and a number of people talking to me through the years to get a sense of this. If you are a normal, white American, the truth is you don’t understand being black in America and you instinctively under-estimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.”
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No need to take the insults to freepmail.
“From vette6387 | 07/08/2016 10:22:33 AM PDT new
And you are a complete asshole!”
Check out post 100
Newt, your mask? It just slipped.
Oh, and we are still holding interviews for the position, lots of interviews. Feel free to start that next Book Tour
Seminar with Nancy.
Sure looks like Newt doesn’t want to be VP. I’m done with him. Its time to un-follow this fool on twitter and facebook.
It is the illegal drug industry that has given black youths a profitable occupation. It has destroyed the family unit, destroyed the need to get an education and put youths on a course that implements a system of street justice requiring the murder of those who obstruct their occupation. The illegal drugs also affect critical thinking which is crucial for the needed self discipline for civil behavior. The collateral harm drugs do in society is the elephant in the room and, for some reason, it is not given the importance it deserves. The $billions in costs to society is barely understood and, if the impact of illegal drugs were given the importance given to the Zika virus, we would have a generational change for Black Americans who now appear headed for self destruction.
Newt has a point
most of us are just too busy working to understand the gibmedat mindset of the 3-4 generations of unmarried mothers living on welfare and baby daddies proving their manhood with guns
what’s wrong with her eyes?
SOX Newt reeeeeally wants to be VP.
I have dealt with the Black community in the justice system for years. It is true that Blacks walk around with greater risks.
But it the leftists and the Black leadership which are the cause of that.
The remedy is not more whining. The first stage of a remedy is to encourage early learning of well spoken English, education about need to build an intact family before sexual activity, and formal education to enter them into mainstream American workplace.
Enough race baiting.
We all need to come together as Americans.
One of them looks like walter white.
Don’t care...
Well while I dont agree with what he says, I’m not going to blow my stack like too many people here because there will always be something you dont see eye to eye on.
It’s that idiotic “100% or nothing” approach the right loves to die on.
We did to the black community what we’ve done to the millennial generation. And our politics is the enabler.
The main problem blacks have is illegitimacy. The Federal government encourages and subsidizes it. It is devastating for black males and makes blacks dependent upon government. The Federal government is now working on destroying white families. It is all about power.
Wouldn’t the opposite also be true? Blacks cannot possibly understand what it’s like to be white in America, because they don’t lead lives of a white person. The fantasy world of easy living that they project onto whites just doesn’t exist. White privilege isnt real and being white does not help the vast majority of Caucasians.
I once had a black person accuse me of being born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to stop him right there and explain that my father was a blue collar member of the United Auto Workers, and my mother didn’t work at all. She stayed home to raise children. There was no wealth or privilege in my home as a child. I had no special advantage growing up other than what I could do with my own talents and abilities and mostly hard work.
“There are two parties to this situation, and it ain’t the cops at the root of the problem.”
Since as you say, the facts are not yet known, how then can you dismiss the possibility that officer malfeasance is not possible? The sad part of it all is that both sides, the citizens and the cops are now polarized to an extent to which they never have been before. In the past, cops, whether they deserved it or not, received the respect their job demanded. Now that’s gone, and people on both sides are the worse for the direction things have gone. And as a gun owner, and 2A supporter, every time these things happen, it only hastens the day when our RAT governments figure out how to disarm us.
What website is printed at the bottom of their pre-printed ($$) “grassroots” protest sign?
I can’t quite make it out. TIA.
She has crazy eyes.
Just like the Runaway Bride and the Gov. of Minnesota.
I agree with Newt on this one.
Doesn’t excuse violence or reverse discrimination, etc.
As a white, middle-age, conservative American male that’s worked hard my whole life for what little I have and paid more than my “fair share” of taxes over the years, oh I understand reeaaaallllll well, Newt.
I understand that is NOT my fault, it’s NOT my ancestors’ fault, nor is it America’s fault that they are the way they are. It’s the fault of the democratic party that has taken advantage of em and literally enslaved them with govt hand-out after govt hand-out and special black privileges.
So don’t even talk to me about “white privilege”, or ‘micro aggression”, or “racism” or “hate crime”. It’s all just a bunch of BS...pure liberal BS at that.
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