Posted on 06/01/2020 4:38:58 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
On today's Rush show, he played a very interesting exchange he conducted with the hosts of the Breakfast Club. Its very interesting as well as very instructive. The one thing that stuck out to me more than anything else, was that during the exchange Charlamagne tha God used the phrase "the mechanism of white supremacy" four distinct times. He even elaborated on what exactly that meant to him:
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Yeah, and, you know, I don’t disagree with you, and that’s why I’m not letting nobody politicize black pain and tell us this is one person’s fault just because they are trying to win an election in November. This is America’s fault — and the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, segregation, slavery, all of those things are and have been the proverbial knee on the back of black folks’ neck. And ’til somebody’s willing to dismantle the mechanism of white supremacy, nothin’ is gonna change.
Now this is interesting. Here's the item list, which I will number: (1) the War on Drugs, (2) mass incarceration, (3) segregation, (4) slavery. Contrast this with Frederick Douglass, who wrote that the constitution when "interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT".
Normally, when phrases of this sort are used you don't even get a meaning of what the person using it is talking about. Here, you do, and it's a very interesting thing to note the disconnect. Does that mean that Charlamagne tha God is guilty of misinterpreting the constitution? Maybe. But the use of that specific phrase "the mechanism of white supremacy" four times, tells us a lot about the role of historical revisionism by academics in what people think of history. I actually have more to say about this, but that will have to wait for a future date. Sorry to leave anybody hanging.
Because he didn’t see himself as a victim or part of a special class of citizen and only wanted to be treated as an equal among men...
The opposite of Clarence Thomas too.
Reminded me of conversing with a climate change hoax denier.
“mass incarceration”
I’ve heard this guy use this phrase twice now. I assume it means some sort of organized wholesale of imprisoning blacks. I have served in my church’s prison ministry for two years now and one thing I’ve never heard from any of those men that attend services, black or any other race is that they were wrongfully imprisoned.
Do your own research for verification of my supposition, folks.
Frederick Douglas wasn’t a communist.
There is no such thing as a black community. With 72% of black children born out of wedlock (for quite some time) there is only black disunity.
Enough with the blasphemy. Charlemagne tha Fool
Not impressed with Charlamagne today
With 72% of black children born out of wedlock (for quite some time) there is only black disunity.
Unwed single mothers and their children are the new black community.
Black men have been led down a dead end road while the unwed mothers try to keep things together.
Like it or not, agree or disagree, that is the reality of the current state of the black community.
And this... there is only black disunity...is just an asinine comment! (IMO)
Does Charlamaigne tha God even know who Frederick Douglass was?
You write, “Unwed single mothers and their children are the new black community.” “New?” Yours is an asinine comment because that situation has endured now for more than fifty years.
For starters, Frederick Douglass was considerably smarter.
Ah, so you agree as to what the black community is.
You simply disagree on the "new" aspect. THANKS!
P.S. - 50 years is NOT a very long period of time.
ONE generation is considered to be 30 years. (Generation)
The Bible has 40 years as a generation.
I suggest you unbunch your panties before you strangle yourself.
You win the post of the day award!
Frederick Douglass was a very unique man. His two sons, Charles and Lewis served in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. His second wife, Helen Pitts was white, which didn’t set well with his children. But when he died, she made sure that the house he lived in, Cedar Hill in Washington, was preserved just the way it was when he died. I visited it many years ago, and it was well worth the trip. I was born in Rochester, New York, where he lived for about 25 years, and published his newspaper, The North Star there. A statue of him was erected in front of the New York Central Train Station on the corner of St. Paul Street and Central Avenue on June 8, 1899. In 1941, the statue was moved to Highland Park not far from where his house once stood, and remained there until it was moved to South Avenue and Robinson Drive in the fall of 2019 as the centerpiece of a new Frederick Douglass Memorial Plaza. I read that since the move it has been vandalized twice, and at this point, I don’t even know if the site is open. Douglass is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery which is on Mount Hope Avenue in Rochester. On one of my trips to Rochester, I visited his grave site.
Proverbs 18:2-3 Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.
You can't even get that right...
2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
You aired your opinion.
3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Guess what this reply is.
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