Posted on 06/12/2020 9:24:40 AM PDT by lionstar
Joe Biden on Thursday compared the death of George Floyd to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, saying Floyd’s death had a bigger global "impact" than King’s.
At an economic reopening roundtable in Philadelphia, the former vice president spoke of how the advent of smartphones had precipitated global participation in the movement against police brutality and racial injustice.
“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said.
“It’s just like television changed the Civil Rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor and his dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women going to church and firehoses ripping the skin off of young kids,” he continued.
“What happened to George Floyd — now you got how many people around the country, millions of cell phones. It’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this,” he continued. “Look at the millions of people marching around the world.”
Biden both met with Floyd’s family and sent a video message for his funeral in the days following his death in police custody. He said that African-Americans live with the fear of wondering if they’ll be next.
“People all across this country are enraged and rightly so. Everyday African-Americans go about their lives with constant anxiety and trauma of wondering, ‘Will I be next?’ Sounds like an exaggeration but it’s not,” Biden said on May 29.
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If the President said such a thing he would be forced to resign by both Democrats and Republicans.
Only because of Social Media
Hate to say it, but he is right about that.
Heck, right now it’s up there with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Somehow, it will be Trump’s fault
The impact was fake and manufactured just like all the fake hate crimes.
Only that this “impact” has absolutely nothing to do with Floyd.
(C'mon man. Archduke who?)
Yup. There was nothing on facebook or instagram or twitter or snapchat or youtube or anyplace on the interweb. Weird huh? No live streaming or anything.
Saint Floyd, living proof that a good for nothing deadbeat, in and out of prison for a variety of criminal offenses, a life long pattern of victimizing others and passing 20s made on an inkjet printer... can still be used by communists in an attempt to destroy our country.
But as with Archduke, it was just the spark that started the conflaguration, something was going to, it was only a matter of time.
only because of premeditated funding and social media.
You mean Bull Connor(D)?
The assassination of MLK was unexpected while the death of a black man at the hands of a white policeman was planned for as a signal.
Sad to say if it was not George Floyd it would have been someone else. It did not even matter if the case was clear cut as long as there was a good visual the left would create the narrative.
The various world governments better wake up to what is really going on or they will fall as fifth column undermines their authority.
What is it about demonicRATS that everywhere they rule and reign, they foment civil unrest?
Yup. Because of that, people are a lot more gullible now.
Well, when I brought this up yesterday, my spouse responded
“MLK Jr didn’t get THREE funerals”.
So, there!
Biden forgot the ugly riots that happened after Martin Luther King’s untimely death.
I suspect that if the George Floyd incident had happened during Obama’s administration, or maybe any president other than Trump, the protests would have largely been confined to the Minneapolis area. The nationwide and world wide reaction was almost certainly another coordinated attempt to create an impression of stress and crisis to undermine Trump’s chances for re-election. The left creates or exploits these crises right on cue, one after the other - they are like merchandise on a conveyor belt
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