So let’s say there is a candidate for POTUS who said this:
When you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor.
You’d probably think the person has trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time.
Then a few days later this POTUS candidate was at a town hall event taking questions. One question came from a person named Spandan Shah. He asks:
.. questioner, Spandan Shah, began by describing such incidents as “very scary, especially for someone that looks like me.”
What is going to be your approach in uniting the country? And in particular, how do you address those people who relish in Trump’s divisive rhetoric?
This POTUS candidate describes the person as Muslim. The problem with the statement?
Shah cut off, correcting him, “I’m Hindu.”
Guess you can’t just call all those pesky brown people Muslim huh?
So anyway, as I’m highlighting race let me take a line from the Grisham book/movie (always felt like I was reading a screenplay) A Time to Kill.
Close your eyes, listen to those statements, do you hear them? Now pretend it was Hillary Clinton.
So how many unhinged comments and posts would we have to seen here? At some point the editors need to tell people to take a break, figure it out, then come back when they could offer something based on reality. Because lately it’s not what’s been going on.
jconway says
Hillary isn’t the reincarnation of George W Bush, Sanders isn’t a left wing Trump.
We are better than the tawdry, lazy, and churlish posts that have become a hallmark here as of late. Let’s stay reality based folks. And feel free to hold me to that standard when I stray too.
fredrichlariccia says
or as James Conway said : “Now you’re just trolling.”
Do you have something against the English language ?
Do you have a candidate in this race and if so who might that be ?
How’s that for reality-based commentary ?
Fred Rich LaRiccia
merrimackguy says
Harry Truman. sometime in the 1920’s.