Carlson told his audience he thought President Barack Obama was a "greasy politician" and said, "The country is falling apart, riven by racial strife and tribalism, and one of the most respected people in the whole world decides to pour gasoline on that and compare the police to Bull Connor." For those of you who need a history lesson, Connor was Alabama's Commissioner of Public Safety in the 1960's, who enforced legal racial segregation and denied civil rights to black residents. He is famous for using police dogs and fire hoses to try to squash the civil rights demonstrations. He became an international symbol of institutional racism.
Carlson went on to tell his blind, deaf and dumb audience that it was unfair to compare Minneapolis or America to Alabama. Of course, Carlson speaks from a place of white male privilege where he, nor his audience, has a clue (or refuses to get a clue) about the struggles Congressman Lewis went through in the South or the struggles any black person experiences. Furthermore, he obviously didn't really listen to what President Obama said or he took the quote out of context, which is a standard "norm" for that Network.
"Bull Connor may be gone. But today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans...." ~President Barack Obama
What I heard Obama say is police continue to use extreme and unnecessary force to subdue and even murder blacks. So Carlson must believe police using vicious attack dogs and stinging fire hoses is better than having a knee placed on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
And as far as the "racial strife and tribalism" he referred to, that was created by Donald Trump and his manipulation of the Republican party.
Meanwhile, Sean Hannity condemned Obama for, what he called, a "divisive, politically charged and mean-spirited" eulogy.
When a faithfully married Black President, who was the son of a single mother, the first Black Editor of Harvard Law Review and a professor of Constitutional Law is called "greasy" "immoral," "divisive", and "anti-American" by Carlson, Hannity and those who buy into their philosophy, you have to wonder what they see when they think about Donald Trump. In comparison to Obama (of which there is NONE), Trump is a xenophobic, misogynistic, philanderer, racist, trust fund kid who quotes from the National Enquirer, peddles conspiracy theories, routinely calls women ugly and fat, disrespects military veterans and advocates for separation of immigrant parents and children. This is the person who has captured the hearts of a majority of Republicans and white evangelicals. This is WHITE SUPREMACY. Plain and simple but a blind, deaf and dumb audience will never see or hear that.
Remember, Racist thoughts and actions say more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
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Spot on, Bev
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