Posted on 04/23/2021 4:00:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
How can America unite again to do great things if we are led by people who believe America suffers from a great sickness of the soul, an original sin that dates back to her birth as a nation?
Consider.
After his long night of prayer for "the right verdict" to be pronounced -- Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts -- Joe Biden stepped before the White House cameras to tell us what it all meant.
George Floyd's death, said Biden, "was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism... that is a stain on our nation's soul -- the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans."
Astonishing. Biden is saying that when Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for nine minutes as the life drained out of him, the world, for once, was getting a good, close look at the diseased soul of America.
What Chauvin was doing to Floyd, said the president of the United States, is a reflection of the kind of justice America delivers to Black Americans.
This is no aberration, Biden was saying. This is the routine reality.
Biden was introduced by Kamala Harris, who said much the same:
"America has a long history of systemic racism. Black Americans and Black men in particular have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human."
At Al Sharpton's National Action Network, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered what The Wall Street Journal called, "a recitation of America's sins (that) could have come from China's Global Times."
Said Thomas-Greenfield:
"I have... seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.... Racism is the problem of the racist. And it is the problem of the society that produces the racist."
What our diplomat to the world is saying is that our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are interwoven with white supremacy and that America, to this day, continues to breed racists.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at a Congressional Black Caucus event after the verdict, turned her eyes heavenward in gratitude:
"Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice....For being there to call out to your mom -- how heartbreaking was that...And because of you...your name will always be synonymous with justice."
Implication: Floyd died to redeem America of her original sin of racism.
All in all, quite a commentary on our leaders.
For, again, our president and vice president are saying that this people and country still suffer from a sickness of the soul that dates back to its formative days.
The 1960s radicals who vilified our country as "Amerika" were rightly called "anti-American." Today, the difference between what they said about America and what our highest elected leaders are saying is hard to discern.
Our enemies have picked up on this. In Anchorage, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Beijing out for repression in Hong Kong and "genocide" in Xinjiang, China's foreign minister was right back in his face.
You Americans should look to your own sins and clean up your house before lecturing the world on political morality, he said. Today, that Chinese foreign minister could cite Biden and Harris as his chief witnesses that America is a nation sick in its soul.
We hear our leaders' attacks on America. Where is their defense?
What other nation has provided the same measures of personal and political freedoms and material blessings for 40 million Black people as has the United States?
If people of color are treated "as less than human" in America, as Harris says, why are so many people of color seeking desperately to get across our Southern border to build their future here?
What is the real truth about race in America that goes unmentioned in the mainstream media's endless hunt for encounters between Black men and white cops?
The main perpetrators of violent crimes against Black Americans -- are other Black Americans. Black men, ages 16 to 40, are 3% of the U.S. population but commit roughly a third of America's violent crimes.
Defund police, restrict police, remove police and you will get more of what the police prevent -- crimes, especially violent crimes, in your community.
When Biden and Harris spoke of "systemic racism" afflicting our society, they were not describing their enlightened selves. And it was Hillary Clinton who identified the people the leftist elites have in mind:
"You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.... The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic -- you name it.... Some of those folks... are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
What Clinton, Biden and Harris are all saying is that, though the moral sickness of racism pervades our society, we are the vaccinated ones.
Paging Captain Obvious. Pickup on the red line.
Yes.
It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Sam Adams
Ya think?
What is left for Conservatives to conserve?
All hands on deck as we enter the counter-revolutionary moment.
Let’s be blunt. The United States has become two nations occupying the same country. When pressed, or in private, many would now agree. Fewer are willing to take the next step and accept that most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term
https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-conservative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/
International Rhetorical Question day?
We’re led by kakistocratic globalists.
Unquestionably
Some of the Amendments, not so much...
I had to look the word up and boy you couldn’t be any more correct with that idiot.
Seems in recent years some of the politicians have gotten more greedy. And it maybe because they get away with it. They used anti-Americans to help steal the election. Most Americans know it and most all nations know it. This was a bad sign for our future.
Yup!
“What our diplomat to the world is saying is that our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are interwoven with white supremacy and that America, to this day, continues to breed racists.”
This is what people are saying when they kneel to disrespect the flag
Every time some sports team owner, executive and fan in the stadium allows a player to kneel during the National Anthem they say it too.
Biden actually said with a straight face.....the world was getting a good, close look at the "diseased soul of America."
BTW, that Biden line was taken right out of the CCP's aggression against America---to exploit our racial problems.
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Biden’s continued badgering of we, the people, on racism is pushing
Americans too far……...... and is inviting one heck of a backlash.
Biden’s constant refrain is about “how bad we are,” implying he, of course, is “so good.”
Biden tells us, we, the people, need to be “as good as the government”....and he will show us how to be good.
The Biden State Dept weighing on racism---a domestic issue----shows how far Biden
will go to show us "bad people" how really, "really good" the Biden government is.
It’s being led by the devil.. America is a Christian nation.. No matter what they claim... And world gov cannot be, with the greatest nation not joining..
If they get what they want, our nation will look like the world looked like in Lion King after the bad king was installed
Same drama as happened in the garden.
Giving in to the enemy does not give us anything...but embolden the enemy
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Someone has to ask this question?
Where’s that New Yorker cover of the two militants in the Oval Office sharing a secret handshake. That and the magazine’s own renouncement of it...
;The common state of mankind, down through the ages, has been to be subject to the rule of a small oligarchy, that imposes rules upon the greater number of subservient residents of the territory to which the oligarchy lays claim. Invariably, this has led to hereditary rule, passing from parent to offspring, the ruling class perpetuating itself, while keeping the subjects in a permanently inferior social position.
Occasionally, the peasants revolt, and in the chaos that follows, a new hierarchy is formed, which then takes over the palaces and military posts. So the outcome is, a distinction without a difference, so far as the vast majority of the territory’s residents are concerned.
But sometimes, in the course of history, there emerges a more just society, a republic, which has not as those who inherit the rule from ancestors, any permanent ruling class, but one that arises from the consent of the citizens who made this expulsion of tyrants and despots possible. This society can survive only so long as the participants in this governmental experiment remain informed and involved with keeping the periodically renewed leadership honest and in adherence with the guiding principles and body of law that has built up from the time of the establishment of the republic.
But when the flow of information is shunted and diverted from the truth, and the citizens are increasingly uninvolved with the actins of the chosen leaders, the situation decays back into the relatively normal state of mankind being ruled by tyrants and despots, who rely on an organized militaristic organization to maintain “peace” and “tranquility”.
Until the peasants rebel again.
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