Twenty years after his almost-deadly beating, Rodney King reflects on the infamous Los Angeles riots and gives his perspective on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Rodney King remembers 20 years ago
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Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:40 AM EDT
Twenty years after his almost-deadly beating, Rodney King reflects on the infamous Los Angeles riots and gives his perspective on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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It will be nice if someday we can get beyond the stupid race issue
Not as long as there is a Democrat Party that needs it to rally an important constituency of their "base" we won't, Todd!
And then there are those that spew crap they know nothing about. I've heard more racial remarks from my right wing in-laws and some friends, than any Democrats.
Who pushed the civil rights bill? I beleive it was a democratic president.
Who spit on a Democratic representative? Ibelieve it was a republican. I believe actions speak much louder than words. Who has constantly tried to say OUR President isn't an American citizen. I believe it's been Republicans. ALL because he's black.
This just might happen if the right-wing evangelistas give up on their hating and join the human race. Or if the repub/tparty learn that compromise means both sides win something and neither side loses much. Or if Americans pay attention to science and learn that dark skin color is nothing more than protection. Or if we learn that each of us has something good to contribute to humanity.
We could be real mean, Larry... I can dig back in my memories for Earl Butz and Reagan Interior Secretary James Watt...
There is no race issue. There is racism! We will move beyond racism when bigotry and the self appointed superiority of whites bites the dust in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. Racism is an intrinsic part of our history and for millions of Americans it remains a daily fact of life. Racist people and laws mutilated and mared the lives of millions of people. Hundreds of thousands were lynched, hung and killed. In the 1980s & 1990s there where still lynchings and hangings of Black men and women and children in the South. Human suffering perpetrated by racists for more then 200 years. We have millions of people still alive today who suffered the brutal physical, mental and economic assaults of white cowards ask for way too many generations. You are either stupid or indifferent. Our President is assaulted with vile remarks and gestures on a daily basis by many prominent Republicans. Lame idiots like you who think nothing of trivializing this vile behavior encourage it to continue. Have you no guts to stand up to what is evil?
Racism is alive and well everywhere. I thought it was great when we elected our first black president, that finally, finally we had matured as a country. Instead, the polarization that event caused has only laid bare how undeveloped we really are. Even our leaders in Washington have shown how afraid they are of access to authority by non-whites by bringing government to a grinding halt since the election. We still have a really long way to grow as human beings!
Bringing Government to a grinding halt since the election? What are you smoking?
145,000 new federal employees positions added to the growing like topsy Washington DC monstrosity that sucks more and more money from the economy by the minute.
How may czars has Obama got in place to keep the patronage dollars flowing while he circumvets Congressional attempts to slow down his rate of spending, especially the out of control deficit spending.
Wake up! It's not racism that is the issue here, its incompetence and a strong bent to socialism that is putting us at the "brink of the cliff" as outlined on the lead story on the MSNBC front page. And the Piper will have to be paid before the election now, as the runawayspending without a budget in place will have us in a need to raise the debt ceiling around Labor Day. The Dems thought they bought themselves and their hapless President time with the stopgap measures to get by the election, but no sire bob, the day of reckoning is coming sooner now.
Of course we will hear fools like you calling Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats and Independents racists for forcing this President to accept the cuts to spending he needed to make last summer, but that is, of course, bulls***, as always.
When are people going to take responsibility for their own misteps and stop looking for fall guys to blame it all on? Really! Seriously! Get a life!
Oh, oh. I just notice mr. keith is here with his Fox news entertainment and he's really fired up. Love that nonsensical diatribe he puts together; big phrases: deficit spending, patronage, czars, racism, imcompetence. Why, that sounds like he's talking about that criminal regime of bush/cheney. Tsk, tsk. No budget in place? Is it because the republican/tea party will not give up their very wealthy subsidies to whom they have pledged their 'troth'? Because the repub/tparty want to continue their non-working, unethical, purely theatrical, trickle down theory of giving to the rich? Because the repub/tparty are so beholden to Koch Bros., and their kind, the military producing moguls, and their faux faith based nonsensicals that the repub/tparty cannot, will not, do what is right for Americans?
When are people going to take the responsible step and check for facts? That'll ensure a vote for Democratics in all elections.
earthgirl
You can't really meen you expect kieth to check facts? lol That would muddy his Fox lies talk. I do believe GWB had the "czars" of anybody. But hell, Obama can't get any confirmed. And by the way, a "czar" is nothing more than a "secratary" of an agency. Kieth, please do us a favor and give us your sources for 145,000 new gov't employees. OH, that's right Fox lies. I should have realized that. But then kieth isn't real big on sources or facts.
Hey earthgirl...explain how your boy Nobama said 3 years ago that he would cut the dificit in half his first year in office, he damn near tripled it, he gives raises as high as 86% to his white house staff.. the guy is up to his ass in alligators and he has no leadership skills at all, should have remained a community organizer, can't even practice law as he lost he licence in Ill.
adam
funny stuff, LOL
but you all should really and try to come up with new stuff.
and maybe some links to your Bravo Sierra.
earthgirl:
My economic sources are CNBC, Bloomberg Business, the Wall Street Journal, Barons, and The Economist. Yours are this in the bag for Obama network, I presume. and facts don't lie.
larry (sigh): A Cabinet Secretary is far from "no more than a secretary", and an agency commissioner or "czar" aint no secretary. I recall Drug czars with far reaching ececutive powers under Rebublicans, but no where near the 40+ and rising "czars" under Obama.
Adding rage anger and hostility to your words does not turn your preposterous exaggerations and lies into facts. Scream and intimidate all you want - all your proving is your ideological agenda has got you by your tail. Stay off your kool-aid for a few days and you may discover a friendlier world. If you just gotta blame someone start with your self.
good show
Thanks Lawrence for giving this topic time and space. Much appreciated.