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Marc Lamont Hill on Ferguson Riots: "This Is What Democracy Looks Like"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com ^ | November 26, 2014

Posted on 11/27/2014 7:14:23 AM PST by NKP_Vet

DON LEMON, CNN: First With Marc Lamont Hill, let's talk. You are in New York City. The gentleman there, he said he is up in Harlem. He's marching. He said listen, this generation, we have a voice and they don't want police brutality. He's got to get back to Staten Island. That's another issue. But we're looking, you know, at the protesters there. Is this a generational thing? Is this a young people's movement, Marc Lamont Hill?

MARC LAMONT HILL, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It absolutely is. You know, Dr. King used to say when dogs bite us in Birmingham, we bleed everywhere. I mean, this is a reenactment of that practice, you know. Someone got hurt in Ferguson and we're bleeding everywhere. You see around the country protest. The protest chants in Ferguson last night was if we don't get it, shut it down.

You see people shutting down highways. You see people shutting down roads. You see people shutting down games and operas over the last few months. It's an exciting moment for young protesters. As again, the violence is one thing. And we can bracket that for a moment and talk about the 99.9 percent of the protesters who are trying to make change in the spectacle of protests and through organized action, cop watch programs, educational intervention, voter registration drives. This is what activism is like. This is what democracy looks like.

LEMON: Yes. This is what democracy looks like. You sound like you've been out there, Marc Lamont Hill, among protesters.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ferguson; lynchmob; missouri; obamasracewar; occupy
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To: Kenton

in daylight where people can see your signs. no cover of darkness for unseemly deeds.


41 posted on 11/27/2014 8:08:04 AM PST by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: NKP_Vet
How I despise this leftist useful idiot. If he, Richard Fowler, and other spinners without rudimentary understanding were cut out of their cushy jobs on tv, in our universities,etc., the world would be a much more peaceful place, and quieter, too.

When you have been programmed, instead of taught how to think and analyze, you are a part of the problem . The useful idiots in Russia who helped Communist to be birthed were mostly killed for their idealistic efforts.

As Saul Allinski said--it is all about power and money--forget about doing good. To gain both of those, the New Dem Party has to divide, propagandize, and incite the divisions. The news media, being Progressive believers (and also pre-programmed idiots from our "noble" Universities) are also among the manipulated masses, but believe themselves omnipotent.

vaudine

42 posted on 11/27/2014 8:08:05 AM PST by vaudine
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To: NKP_Vet

Marc is an IDIOT reporting for an IDIOT Network.


43 posted on 11/27/2014 8:18:22 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: NKP_Vet
You see people shutting down highways. You see people shutting down roads. You see people shutting down games and operas over the last few months.

This is what democracy looks like.

This is what the libtard disintegrated mode of thought of postmodernism and nihilism looks like.

44 posted on 11/27/2014 8:25:51 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: NKP_Vet

This guy has always struck me as an extreme example of a douche bag.


45 posted on 11/27/2014 8:28:49 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: mjp
This is what democracy looks like.

And that is why we do not have one.

We have a representative republic.

46 posted on 11/27/2014 8:31:19 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: NKP_Vet

He’s right that is what democracy looks like.
That’s why we have ( or had) a constitutional republic.


47 posted on 11/27/2014 8:35:54 AM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: NKP_Vet

I haven’t seen any polls on Ferguson. Maybe we could have a national referendum?


48 posted on 11/27/2014 9:25:23 AM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: NKP_Vet

“This Is What Democracy Looks Like”

Which is why our Founders abhorred democracy and gave us a Republic.


49 posted on 11/27/2014 9:29:20 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Lamont, you big dummy.


50 posted on 11/27/2014 9:29:54 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: NKP_Vet

If this is what democracy looks like, maybe that’s the reason the Founders chose a republic.


51 posted on 11/27/2014 9:45:21 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: NKP_Vet

This is what remaking America looks like.


52 posted on 11/27/2014 9:52:23 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Marc Lamont Hill is what racism looks like.


53 posted on 11/27/2014 9:53:00 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: NKP_Vet
He's right. That is exactly what democracy is like.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.

54 posted on 11/27/2014 9:57:46 AM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: NKP_Vet

No, this is what a 2/3 black city looks like.

Detroilet lite.


55 posted on 11/27/2014 10:02:12 AM PST by Zman516 (Thought-Criminal #1)
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To: NKP_Vet

Which is why the United States is a representative republic and not a democracy.


56 posted on 11/27/2014 10:03:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: NKP_Vet

Hill’s most annoying quality is his giggle - chortle when being interviewed.


57 posted on 11/27/2014 10:04:52 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: NKP_Vet
"Another leftist looney tunes weighs in on the torching of Fergudischu. Says "this is what democracy looks like". Sounds like a good replacement for HolderHitler."

There. Fixed it. c.f. Reichstag fire; Kristallnacht

58 posted on 11/27/2014 10:46:04 AM PST by JewishRighter
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To: LeonardFMason

MLH & Don Lemon are nuttier than a fruitcake.

In fact they ARE a couple of leftwing fruitcakes.


59 posted on 11/27/2014 10:49:11 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: a fool in paradise

He’s absolutely correct. Democracy IS Mob Rule.

America was never set up as a Democracy.


60 posted on 11/27/2014 10:50:12 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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