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James Comey: Mr. President, Please Take a Stand Against Racism
New York Times ^ | Aug. 4, 2019 | James Comey

Posted on 08/04/2019 7:37:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit. He’s actually doing something more dangerous.

For much of our history, the soup was deadly and uncontained, spewing radiation that led to the enslavement, terrorization, murder and oppression of African-Americans. One hundred years ago this summer, it erupted on the streets of Washington, leaving dozens dead. The president of Howard University narrowly escaped being lynched. The murders, beatings and threats erupted in countless places during the first 200 years of American life. To visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture is to discover that the violence and mistreatment is beyond count, but not beyond imagination.

Yet something good happened over the last 50 years. America started to get control over the dangerous radiation. We erected a containment building made up of laws; we passed statutes making the abuse and mistreatment of people by virtue of their race a crime. More important, we began enforcing the laws we already had. It was long a statutory crime to kill another human being; it just wasn’t against the law in practice to kill a black person in many places. The rights to vote and to equal treatment sounded muscular on paper, but they were weaklings in much of America. Slowly, slowly that began to change, through progress at ballot boxes and jury boxes, in police squad rooms and classrooms.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: yesthatjallen

Mr President, Waze take.a.stand against seditious traitors and dirty cops like Comey.


21 posted on 08/04/2019 7:43:38 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

100 years ago a democrat was president - Woodrow Wilson

so all this crap was a democrats fault then

AND 100 years ago nothing Trump has to do with that

Racism yeah lets have Trump go after democrats constant racism selling out the poor in the inner cities - wrecking the economy as obama did to deny them jobs - furthering the bribing the poor with debilitating welfare (dentists handing out candy)

The constant democrat drumbeat attacking white americans

yes lets work against these detestable racist democrats


22 posted on 08/04/2019 7:43:44 PM PDT by elbook
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To: yesthatjallen

Hmmm. That reads like a manifesto.


23 posted on 08/04/2019 7:44:14 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen
Hey Mr. Comey, if we had had gun control, would Vince Foster have still been alive?

Or Ambassador Stevens (think about it).

24 posted on 08/04/2019 7:44:51 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Opinion by Comey = Barf Alert

(it’s code)

It was at the end of Chapter Two in my How to Code Book


25 posted on 08/04/2019 7:45:06 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: yesthatjallen
It was long a statutory crime to kill another human being; it just wasn’t against the law in practice to kill a black person in many places.

Yes. Those places were called demonicRAT controlled states.

26 posted on 08/04/2019 7:46:19 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen
The murders, beatings and threats erupted in countless places during the first 200 years of American life.

Yes. In demonicRAT controlled states.

27 posted on 08/04/2019 7:47:06 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen

Lotta deep staters chiming in on this.

If it were a schoolyard we’d have called them out hours ago for protesting too much

But no we’ve got the inane suburban housewives (take it from me. Had an earful if angry “take the semiautomatics out!!) screeching with no thought as to who has to gain from this. From hiring this guy

Am I the only girl who thinks this way because I grew up in upper middle class my around mafia and I put nothing past people ?


28 posted on 08/04/2019 7:47:58 PM PDT by stanne
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To: yesthatjallen
America started to get control over the dangerous radiation. We erected a containment building made up of laws; we passed statutes making the abuse and mistreatment of people by virtue of their race a crime.

Yes. But only with the overwhelming support of Republicans in Congress who voted in enough numbers to overcome the overwhelming opposal (is that a word?) by demonicRATS.

29 posted on 08/04/2019 7:49:25 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen

Very interesting.

I take this as a sign of desperation by Comey. This kind of shameless sucking up to the MSM and the Democrat/Neocon party means Comey is trying to rally them to his defense, to protect him from what he fears is coming from Barr’s Justice Department. He must think his only defense is a political intervention to keep the wheels of justice from grinding.

I gather that the IG report on Comey is coming out soon, which he would already have been given an opportunity to read and respond to.

But he must be feeling quite exposed for signing a fraudulent FISA application to spy on the Trump campaign, and there could well be evidence of open conspiracy among Comey, Brennan and others. They were (and are) nothing if not arrogant.


30 posted on 08/04/2019 7:50:01 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: yesthatjallen

If he did take a stand, your party would all be in jail


31 posted on 08/04/2019 7:51:34 PM PDT by Bommer (2020- Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Please, Mr. President, if Comedy and Frau Booker and George Pee Bush are going to blame you for any residue of racism that might be lingering in American society, fight fire with fire and recount the demonicRAT roots of The KKK and white supremacy in The U.S.

Along with with creating of The NRA which was founded to give blacks the right to defend themselves against said demonicRATS.

32 posted on 08/04/2019 7:52:00 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen
This is called changing the subject. I've heard Joe DiGenova say more than once that when AG Barr is finished with his investigation Comey’s gonna need a good criminal defense lawyer.
33 posted on 08/04/2019 7:53:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Are Comey and Romney friends, I wonder. They seem to hit the same notes.


34 posted on 08/04/2019 7:53:19 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: yesthatjallen

I wish the writer shopped at Walmart.


35 posted on 08/04/2019 7:54:46 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Are Comey and Romney friends, I wonder. They seem to hit the same notes.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they already had adjoining spaces in hell reserved.
You know, right across from John McCain.


36 posted on 08/04/2019 7:54:54 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: yesthatjallen
Strong language alert: Video of white supremacist railing against any suggestion President Trump is to blame for El Paso shooting....

The El Paso Walmart shooting was Trump's fault. Right?

37 posted on 08/04/2019 7:55:33 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yesthatjallen

Mr. Comey, please take a stand against being a liar and a morally bereft piece of stinking excrement!


38 posted on 08/04/2019 7:56:55 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: yesthatjallen

Comey is too White and needs to stand down.

What does he know about the history of Crayola?


39 posted on 08/04/2019 7:57:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen
Curtains Comey


40 posted on 08/04/2019 7:59:09 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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