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Congressman, father of police officer: 'All lives matter and have value' (VIDEO)
Washington Examiner ^ | 10/11/2017 | Daniel Allott

Posted on 10/12/2017 10:11:46 AM PDT by leaymane

Class, not race, is the dominant struggle of our political age, says Rep. Paul Mitchell, who represents Michigan’s 10th congressional district covering parts of Macomb County and the rest of Michigan’s thumb.

We recently sat down with Mitchell, a Republican, to talk about race and class, attacks on police officers and the Black Lives Matter protests, among other topics. After a career owning and running a nonprofit health school, Mitchell turned his attention to politics.

Mitchell said that the left focuses on racial struggles, but the real struggle is between “the haves and the have nots.”

“And I tell you the people who get up every day and go to work here in Macomb County, they’re tired of hearing how they owe everybody else something because they get to go to work everyday.” Mitchell says his constituents don’t want other people to go hungry or homeless but “they also want people to have the expectation that you’re going to get up and do the best you can to support your family.”

One of Mitchell’s sons is a police officer who “decided as a young kid that he wanted to become a police officer, help protect people,” Mitchell said, adding that while there are bad apples in any group, violence is never an appropriate response.

“People have asked me about BLM, and it won’t make some of your viewers happy, but I’m sorry, I come from the perspective, all lives matter. I absolutely do. I don’t care what color you are. I don’t care what religion you are. All lives matter and have value. We ought to treasure that because when we start discounting humanity, it is not a very good place to be.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; congress; police

1 posted on 10/12/2017 10:11:46 AM PDT by leaymane
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To: leaymane
Needs to stick to hair care products. Oh. 😉. Different Paul Mitchell.
2 posted on 10/12/2017 10:16:25 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: leaymane

“All lives matter.”

Sadly, the response to ridiculous, meaningless, leftist slogans, is to come up with even more empty and asinine ones.


3 posted on 10/12/2017 10:17:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: leaymane

The BLM movement is there because the “Bs” want a monopoly on killing other “Bs”...


4 posted on 10/12/2017 10:17:46 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: PGR88

“All lives matter” is actually considered a racist comment by the left.


5 posted on 10/12/2017 10:25:35 AM PDT by libertylover (We EXPECT RESPECT for the flag and anthem.)
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To: leaymane

Mitchell said that the left focuses on racial struggles, but the real struggle is between “the haves and the have nots.”


Nope. The real struggle is between those who want to concentrate and intensify government power, and those who want to limit and hold government power in check.


6 posted on 10/12/2017 10:26:46 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: libertylover

I happen to believe that all lives don’t matter. There are plenty of lives that would benefit mankind to be nipped in the bud. The list is long.


7 posted on 10/12/2017 10:27:54 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: libertylover
"“All lives matter” is actually considered a racist comment by the left."

Typical of black inferiorists nationwide.
8 posted on 10/12/2017 10:38:28 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: leaymane

How much do BLM lives matter? They do matter in that they stifle production and rend society. Same with AuntieFaye’s lives.


9 posted on 10/12/2017 10:44:57 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: leaymane

Black Lives WONT matter until:

Black mothers stop murdering their black babies
Black adults stop murdering each other.


10 posted on 10/12/2017 10:46:17 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: leaymane

WE—who deserve NOTHING

DEMAND that you give us EVERYTHING

Sums it up for me


11 posted on 10/12/2017 10:49:11 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: leaymane

Do not apologize for saying that all lives matter, or that Blue lives matter.


12 posted on 10/12/2017 10:54:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a violent political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
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To: leaymane

Most of the have-nots got that way by their BEHAVIOR. A few who were simply unlucky are there too. But the unlucky will at least try, while the badly behaved will whine about unfairness. If I choose to help, no question to whom I will direct my help!

Which is why the left wants to FORCE me to help those unworthy ones through taxation.


13 posted on 10/12/2017 11:34:47 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: leaymane

gov‘t employee promoting other gov’t employees

yawn


14 posted on 10/12/2017 12:48:30 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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