Is the Biden campaign based on a lie?

There is one reason why rioters, arsonists and murderers join a protest against police brutality. They are bad people mixing with the good.

In the other incident, there were good people mixing with the bad.

In both cases there were good and bad people on both sides.

Like the President said.

It seems you want to use a power sprayer on one side and an eyebrow brush on your side.

Doesn’t work that way.

Sure thing Sneaky-perhaps this excerpt from an USA Today article on July 20, 2016 will do the trick:

"The truth is, the president helped set the tone long ago for dealing with difficult discussions around race. It was in 2009, when he held the so-called “beer summit” with Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Mass. police Sgt. James Crowley – the officer who responded to a call about a possible break-in at Gates’ house, and arrested Gates himself.

Obama got it right the first time he spoke about the incident, saying Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates after he had proved he was in his own home. Obama was slammed by law enforcement for his comments, and ultimately, the arrest was proven avoidable.

To quell the controversy, Obama embarked upon an adventure in respectability politics where he, Vice President Biden, Gates and Crowley yucked it up over drinks. They cleared the air and Crowley never apologized or admitted to overreacting. Crowley took no responsibility for understanding the race and class undertones that contributed to Gates’ angry response in his own home, supposedly a safe space. He was unmoved by any context other than his own discomfort in that moment.

That’s where things went wrong. The president surely knows what the problems are and can clearly articulate them. But in terms of optics, that “summit” told the nation that’s how to treat African Americans and their concerns: Dismissively, with no need for accountability, and a smile thrown in for show.

And that’s just what people like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani are doing. Giuliani proved he could be a leader of all people, not just some, during the 9/11 aftermath. It boggles the mind that he would use his prodigious social capital to denigrate the Black Lives Matter movement as racist.

Crowley got a pass the same way we keep giving police departments a pass by not holding officers accountable or implementing reforms posthaste, as if lives — the blue ones, the black ones, all of them — depend on it."

The reporter here was Deborah Douglas is a Chicago-based journalist who teaches at The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Flag it.

of course the biden campaign is going to rely on those who still think trump was saying there were good people there being nazis

they know they can tell them anything no matter how stupid

Was Deborah Douglas there?

I now plead the 5th. :sunglasses:

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lets be clear that trump was talking about both sides of the argument over statues

right before he then condemned nazis which no one ever sees, of course

And this?

we could always be more british and repeal the first amendment.

You are off topic. Please get back on topic.

Correct. He doesn’t talk good.

At an event organized by the bad people to advance the goals of the bad people but why would anyone think they agreed with the bad people?

it wouldnt matter if he did. the sewer media would still play the same games for their sheep

The argument had absolutely nothing to do with statues

At an event organized by good people who take advantage of the acts of bad people to advance their goals.

yes there is, one was registered by neo nazi’s and the other by neo marxists,

both supported causes that good people also support.

As both sides do, I agree.

It was dropped before President Obama was asked about and commented on it.

That is how linear time works.

If you or I did the same thing and the police arrested ya in our own house after we had identified ourselves the police would be acting stupidly.

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That is not an arrestable offense.

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