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Why I Fear America Could Enslave Black People Again
Time Magazine ^ | October 18, 2016 | Tavis Smiley

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....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; blacks; blackvote; equality; fearmongering; radicalleft; slavery; tavissmiley; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Equality means that everyone gets the same in America, whether they need it or not."

Which sounds an awful lot like: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

21 posted on 10/19/2016 9:20:00 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The 3 always of SJWs.

1. SJWs always lie.
2. SJWs always project.
3. SJWs always double down.

This idiocy about enslaving blacks is, actually, already in progress by the welfare state SJWs.

Claiming that anyone else is in any way interested in doing such a thing is SWJ rule #2.


22 posted on 10/19/2016 9:20:01 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The answer is YES, but for an entirely different reason. If Isis or other Muslim group can overthrow the US Gov and make us part of a world wide Caliphate. Slavery would return, and not just for African-Americans.


23 posted on 10/19/2016 9:20:19 AM PDT by muskah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good lord!!


24 posted on 10/19/2016 9:20:20 AM PDT by Republic_Venom (It's time for some Republic Venom!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is like the dreams of an 8 year old boy, longing for the days of pirates or dinosaurs, so he could prove his mettle fighting them.

Django Smiley.

25 posted on 10/19/2016 9:20:30 AM PDT by dead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We will never make that particular mistake again.


26 posted on 10/19/2016 9:21:28 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Look out kid, they keep it all hid)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He draws this conclusion from the fact that the Republicans refuse to hold hearings on Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Scalia.

He heard screaming and bullwhips cracking.


27 posted on 10/19/2016 9:21:52 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, Tavis, they are already enslaved.

Theys livin on de democrat plantation now, doin’ for Mistuh Charlie whatevah he say. Theys don’ do no thinkin’ for theyselves—they leaves dat up to duh man, who tell ‘um what to do, what tuh say, how tuh think...where tuh stand. Dey trapped in duh city livin’ amid squalor and crime—killin’ each other ovuh scraps of this here American Pie - just one lil slice to divides up 13 or so million ways...waitin’ for dey’s handout dat comes wit a Obama phone (wonder what dey’s goin’ tuh give us when we elects Hillary - bet it be somethin good!) Dey gets no kinda educashion that kin benefits dem to go some place in dis here life...

Dey’s slaves, all right...mo’ comf’able than befo’, but slaves jes’ the same


28 posted on 10/19/2016 9:21:59 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reading a progressive lament about anyone not honoring the Constitution is like listening to a habitual rapist lament his that conquest don’t send him Christmas cards.


29 posted on 10/19/2016 9:22:26 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reading a progressive lament about anyone not honoring the Constitution is like listening to a habitual rapist lament his that conquest don’t send him Christmas cards.


30 posted on 10/19/2016 9:22:30 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I’m not sure he and I share an understanding of what makes a nation truly great”

I think you are confusing ‘greatness’ with dependency smart guy.


31 posted on 10/19/2016 9:23:10 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A rancid glimpse into the paranoia of the Left, Smiley’s true opinion of a large segment of his audience. He thinks they are dumb, racist and easy to fool.


32 posted on 10/19/2016 9:23:20 AM PDT by Prospero (Lex est rex)
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To: pgkdan
I couldn’t bring myself to actually read the article.

How come one pass up Tavis Smiley at Time.com?

Never mind.

33 posted on 10/19/2016 9:23:47 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Smiley, you dumbass, the Democratic party has been enslaving black people for the last 60 years - in fetters called dependency, entitlement, and “planned parenthood”. You’re just too stupid to realize that, I guess.


34 posted on 10/19/2016 9:24:19 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well, that seems clear enough....


35 posted on 10/19/2016 9:24:22 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: pgkdan

By about the fourth paragraph in he all but admits he’s a communist.


36 posted on 10/19/2016 9:24:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Artcore
Ya ... yur gay !


37 posted on 10/19/2016 9:24:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tavis...people pay you to have the most boring TV show in America...what are you talking about?


38 posted on 10/19/2016 9:25:11 AM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why I Fear America Could Enslave Black People Again

Intensive therapy could go a long way towards dealing with paranoia that severe.

39 posted on 10/19/2016 9:25:54 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As long as there is a 2nd Amendment, putting blacks in chains will have little success.


40 posted on 10/19/2016 9:25:58 AM PDT by martian622 (The Revolution is being televised.)
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