{"id":177078,"date":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/03\/making-mike-bloomberg-look-like-jesse-jackson\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:00:00","slug":"making-mike-bloomberg-look-like-jesse-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/03\/making-mike-bloomberg-look-like-jesse-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Mike Bloomberg Look Like Jesse Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt\u2019s an embarrassing thing to admit, the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing…\u201d <\/p>\n

–#MayorPete<\/a> appearing on a childrens\u2019 public television show in 2014#PeteButtigieg<\/a> #PeteForAmerica<\/a> #Pete2020<\/a> #PeteButtigieg<\/a> #PetebuttigiegisalyingMF<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ZUZNLf67wb<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Resist Programming \ud83d\udef0 (@RzstProgramming) December 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In all his racist glory<\/i><\/div>\n

Between firing his police chief when he uncovered racism in the ranks, allowing the already lily white South Bend PD lose about half of its black officers during his tenure, and taking black people’s homes and giving them to white developers, it was already pretty clear that Pete Buttigieg has been promulgating racist policies that far exceed what Mike “Stop and Frisk” Bloomberg could imagine in a fever dream.<\/p>\n

The question has always been whether this is just clueless, cowardice, or a deliberate attempt to use hostility to minorities as a political tactic.<\/p>\n

Well now the man who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in history is saying that, “The people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

This can only be deliberate pandering to racists.<\/p>\n

Even I know, and I was not<\/b> a history major, that Thomas Jefferson actually put condemnations of slavery and the slave trade in the first drafts of the constitution.<\/p>\n

Whether he is a racist in his heart, like Jesse Helms, or merely a political opportunist who has chosen racism as a political ploy, like Strom Thurmond and George Wallace, it does not matter.<\/p>\n

Pete Buttigieg is a racist politician, even if he is not a racist man: (Though he might be personally racist as well)<\/p>\n

Once again, South Bend, Ind. mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg finds himself under the microscope and under fire for recently unearthed video of him saying something trash. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Well, now Buttigieg is up against it again; this time for an old clip from his appearance on a children\u2019s public television show in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, the amendment process\u2014they were wise enough to realize that they didn\u2019t have all of the answers and that some things would change. A good example of this is something like slavery\u2014or civil rights. It\u2019s an embarrassing thing to admit, but the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing and did not respect civil rights.\u201d <\/p>\n

Oh Jesus Christ, Pete.<\/p>\n

First of all, if they \u201cdid not respect civil rights\u201d I think it\u2019s safe to say that they knew when they were doing a bad thing, they just didn\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

In fact, writer Aleia Woods of NewsOne<\/a> did a fine job of pointing out a direct refutation of this Buttigieg\u2019s statement by one of the framers himself. [This is in addition to my aforementioned example of Thomas Jefferson]<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In fact, James Madison, one of the \u201cpeople who wrote the Constitution\u201d and owned as many as 118 slaves, according to White House History<\/a>, admitted to knowing just how immoral and barbaric slavery was. He referred to slavery as a \u201cdreadful calamity\u201d in a private letter written to Frances Wright in 1825.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it,\u201d he wrote, according to the Founders Archive<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This man is a moral and political disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s an embarrassing thing to admit, the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing…\u201d –#MayorPete appearing on a childrens\u2019 public television show in 2014#PeteButtigieg #PeteForAmerica #Pete2020 #PeteButtigieg #PetebuttigiegisalyingMF pic.twitter.com\/ZUZNLf67wb \u2014 Resist Programming \ud83d\udef0 (@RzstProgramming) December 29, 2019 In all his racist glory Between firing his police chief when …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,389,387,405,398],"class_list":["post-177078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-history","tag-hypocrisy","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}