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'I'm not a racist person': Rittenhouse says he supports BLM movement and his case never had anything to do with race
Insider ^ | Nov 21, 2021 | Sarah Al-Arshani

Posted on 11/21/2021 5:54:08 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all the charges against him in his homicide trial on Friday.

In an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, he said he wasn't a racist and supported BLM.

Rittenhouse was on trial for killing two people and injuring a third during protests last summer.

Kyle Rittenhouse said he isn't a racist and that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement in a sneak peek of his interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

"This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense," Rittenhouse said. "I'm not a racist person. I support the BLM movement. I support peacefully demonstrating."

Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all five charges brought against him on Friday. He was on trial for fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz on August 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during civil unrest that erupted after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: blm; brainwashed; didyousearch; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; racism; rittenhouseacquittal; tuckercarlson
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Rittenhouse said. "I'm not a racist person. I support the BLM movement.

Poor kid does not recognize brainwashing. He needs to look at the two biggest killers of blacks: Abortion and Black-on-Black violence. Until BLM addresses these issues it is all just racist BS.

1 posted on 11/21/2021 5:54:08 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’m not about to bash the kid after what he’s been through. Let’s give him some time to decompress!


2 posted on 11/21/2021 5:56:52 PM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He should move against the “white supremist” meme. He should hit it hard. He is doing the right thing here.


3 posted on 11/21/2021 5:57:35 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
This was already debated on a similar thread. It's not brainwashing, it's simply making a statement to keep the media vultures at bay. He's been through a lot in the last 15 months.

His opinion of BLM doesn't change mine.

4 posted on 11/21/2021 5:58:00 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Kyle doesn’t need to look at what is killing blacks. He needs to go after the slander and liable crowd.


5 posted on 11/21/2021 5:58:50 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hopefully he’ll grow to understand that people threatening his life are Marxists and that he just had to kill three of them. There’s many many more who still want him and those even remotely like him dead.


6 posted on 11/21/2021 6:01:16 PM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It is one thing to say Black Lives Matter. It is another thing to say that Other Lives Don’t.


7 posted on 11/21/2021 6:01:39 PM PST by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He said he supports peacefully demonstrating, as most of us do. He didn’t say he is in lock step with every bullet point (weird pun) of the marxists. Can’t take much away from just one sentence. He’s shown the world that he’s nothing but a good kid anyone would be proud to have as a son. God bless him and his sweet mama.


8 posted on 11/21/2021 6:02:39 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; 100%FEDUP

Me neither. He has been through enough. He is 18. He will learn the truth as he lives life a free man.


9 posted on 11/21/2021 6:04:02 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Another thread already up


10 posted on 11/21/2021 6:04:19 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: 100%FEDUP
100%. In addition, saying you support BLM could mean ten different things. The fact that Rittenhouse said that just made many of the bad guys unhappy...so, it doesn't bother me.
11 posted on 11/21/2021 6:05:32 PM PST by utahagen (but but)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I did a search for this title and it did not match. What thread is the same as I posted?


12 posted on 11/21/2021 6:07:18 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He said he supports peaceful demonstrations. Unfortunately “peaceful” is not BLM’s way of doing things.

CC


13 posted on 11/21/2021 6:07:35 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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One of the first videos I saw was his group telling the "protesters": We agree with you. Just leave the businesses alone.

Also, one guy in his group kept calling the rest of the group "libertarians" and saying things like: Libertarians, come over here.

In all of the "protests," from way back in the year 2000, to Occupy , and into 2020, there have been "libertarian" groups in the mix.

So, this is not surprising. And this kid needs to go on and live his life.

14 posted on 11/21/2021 6:11:48 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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He shouldn't bother.The only talking he should be doing is through a lawyer in huge civil suits against MSLSD,the Amazon Compost,etc,etc...
15 posted on 11/21/2021 6:12:14 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Don’t waste your breath, Kyle.
But then, the average white American teenager, will fall for this self imposed guilt trip. In that way, he is typical of his peers.


16 posted on 11/21/2021 6:13:22 PM PST by lee martell
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To: beef
It is one thing to say Black Lives Matter. It is another thing to say that Other Lives Don’t.

Exactly, and I'm sure that's his point. You can support the basic premise that Blacks shouldn't be disproportionally targeted by police (not that they necessarily are, but we can all agree they shouldn't be) and that all lives matter. From this tiny snippet of a quote by him, we would be reactionary to assume it means he embraces their tactics and their larger ideology.

I know it's the current default position in FR to be reactionary to every triggering news soundbite that comes across the forum, but that doesn't make for intelligent conversation.

17 posted on 11/21/2021 6:13:33 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

For more commentary:

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18 posted on 11/21/2021 6:13:59 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Maybe he’s messing with the media’s head. If not then I’m sorry. I hate the Burn Loot and Murder movement.


19 posted on 11/21/2021 6:17:17 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Reminds me of Kafka’s The Trial.. the system is in a similar process of harassing people until they are executed.

Rittenhouse should read it and realize that he is saying this under blackmail and that it will gain him no relief.

The Trial, or, in German word for word, The Process, describes the Orwellian situation of the Justice System eventually murdering those it does not like through a slow agonizing process as opposed to the Soviet or Nazi more obvious expedient to the Gulag


20 posted on 11/21/2021 6:19:08 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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