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MSNBC Guest: Trump Wants Blacks 'Kneeling in the Cotton Fields Again'
MRC Newbusters ^ | 09/26/2017 | Jack Coleman

Posted on 09/26/2017 8:01:10 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

What a shock it truly wasn't that one of the most warped recent examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome would be heard on a cable show hosted by Al Sharpton.

Former Chicago Bulls player Craig Hodges, author of "Long Shot: The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter," appeared on Sharpton's PoliticsNation yesterday to talk about President Trump's criticism of NFL athletes for kneeling during the national anthem to protest perceived racial injustices.

What Hodges said about the president was over the top even by the inelegant standards of MSNBC's weekend programming:

SHARPTON: "Let me show you this tweet he just recently put up encouraging people to, he put it up a few minutes ago today, telling people don't go to the game. It says (quoting from the tweet), "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!"

"So is he trying to kind of front-end or interfere with those that are boycotting on behalf of (NFL quarterback/free agent Colin) Kaepernick?"

HODGES: "Well, first of all, Rev. Al, I want to thank God for giving us the opportunity to wake up this morning and speak on behalf of our people, you know, and honestly speaking when I look at where we are right now, it's beyond us getting justice in America. It's absolutely time for the Congressional Black Caucus to call for human rights violations that have occurred, past and previously, you know, and I think right now it's a civil rights issue within the context of what President Trump said the other night and as far as hampering athletes to be able to employ or get employment or gain employment."

"And, you know, when I think about his whole thing is when was Amer-, make America great again. Now we see that 1817 is more likely when he's thinking about America being great as opposed to us kneeling on behalf of righteousness and justice, he wants us to be kneeling in the cotton fields again."

Lest anyone think he wasn't serious, Hodges then accused Trump of fomenting race war --

"But it's a different day in that we who are mindful we have to stand up and battle this thing and it can't be us in a war of words, of back and forth. No, it's about making moves, like I'm talking about, go to the World Court, reach outside of the nation for help from Brazil, Russia and China, India, South Africa, the BRICS nations who've made, invest in black people, because right now it's a standard that he has set where he's trying to set up race, a basic race war, and it's ugly, man. And then to hear him just to go off on black women and women should be outraged all over the planet earth."

Oh it's ugly all right, but we've come to expect no less on MSNBC. What made Hodge's remarks even shabbier was his invocation of the Almighty just before accusing Trump of wanting to enslave tens of millions of people across America. His years in the NBA presumably enabled Hodges to make that prodigious leap from righteous to unhinged.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cotton; cottonpickers; fakeamericans; fakenews; liars; msnbc; nfl; smear
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To: Bon of Babble

was it my imagination or did the cowboys owner’s face suddenly get a bad look when the boo’s started coming down?


21 posted on 09/26/2017 8:14:19 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: ForYourChildren

Oh? Just like the poor white share croppers?


22 posted on 09/26/2017 8:14:31 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: rktman
HODGES: "Well, first of all, Rev. Al, I want to thank God for giving us the opportunity to wake up this morning and speak on behalf of our people...

If a white person uses the term, "Your people" they go berserk...............

23 posted on 09/26/2017 8:15:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Bon of Babble

Jerry’s down wit the shtruggle!


24 posted on 09/26/2017 8:15:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ForYourChildren
Mustachioed overseer Snidely Trump wants to whip Big Sam back into Tara's cotton fields! Image and video hosting by TinyPic My mother and her three white siblings chopped and picked cotton in western OK. So give us a break snowflake.
25 posted on 09/26/2017 8:18:27 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ForYourChildren
As Sundance so eloquently states, “Sh** like this is why Trump won”.
26 posted on 09/26/2017 8:19:07 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: ForYourChildren

No, they are doing that all by themselves. They’ve been on the Democrat plantation for over 50 years now.

This thinking is precisely why relatively few have gotten anywhere.

And the ones that do are roundly criticized by the “mob of failure” for doing so.


27 posted on 09/26/2017 8:24:39 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: miss marmelstein

The liberal talkers on tv will not let the days of slavery die. They do not mention the first slave owner in this
country was an black African.


28 posted on 09/26/2017 8:26:16 AM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable and I COLLUDED during the election SO THE DONALD could WIN! I voted.)
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To: ForYourChildren

My father, his brother and sister, and both of his parents picked cotton in the Imperial Valley back in the 1930’s. They came from the same ethnic group as Johnny Cash, who also picked cotton around the same time. And they had their mattresses burned at the border as they came to California, dirt poor.


29 posted on 09/26/2017 8:26:51 AM PDT by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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To: ForYourChildren

As one who survived picking cotton from age 5-18 on the family farm, knock it off. It didn’t hurt me a bit.
Al Sharpton should be in prison instead of hosting a TV show on the least credible network among many lousy Leftist networks.


30 posted on 09/26/2017 8:28:17 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: ForYourChildren
Oh? You got something against plantations, Al?

Do tell. What do you call millions of your constituents living their entire lives on welfare, food stamps, Section 8 housing, and who knows how many other handouts provided by the ultimate plantation known as The demonicRAT Party?

31 posted on 09/26/2017 8:28:20 AM 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: Bon of Babble

That photo is being celebrated by BLM and the other Leftist groups in our country. Shame on you, Jerry Jones. You are a disgrace to Texas.


33 posted on 09/26/2017 8:30:05 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: ForYourChildren; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; ...
It's easier to claim racism and ask for reparations or free stuff than to get an education and work. That's one major thing wrong with American society and the democrat programs that encourage such actions. So lets not start anything 'racist' media, you are the biggest 'racist' of them all!!!
34 posted on 09/26/2017 8:32:09 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

I’m tired of cotton getting blamed

My ancestors raised a lot of fine cotton

They had help....boy they’d reconsider that one I’m wagering

Imagine a world without cotton


35 posted on 09/26/2017 8:46:34 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: miss marmelstein

I’ve gone from being irritated by this football thing to being totally entertained.

As has been said, there’s really no way Trump loses this one.


36 posted on 09/26/2017 8:47:18 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: wardaddy

I don’t understand it either, they wear clothes made with cotton, or are they so stupid they haven’t figured that out yet?

OH MY, another thought just went through my head, what if they do figure it out and start running around nude...oh my what a horrid picture that is!!!


37 posted on 09/26/2017 8:49:56 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: ForYourChildren

Ahhhhh.......go pound cotton up your arse.


38 posted on 09/26/2017 8:50:37 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: ForYourChildren

When blacks voluntarily kneel on national public TV before a predominantly white crowd, well .... y’jes gott’a admire their determination to show obeisance to their white superiors.


39 posted on 09/26/2017 8:53:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Totally crazy. Asking people to respect Old Glory and National Anthem is somehow racist? Completely insane.


40 posted on 09/26/2017 8:54:45 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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