Much to the dismay and outrage of well. I guess what those who care more about stones symbols of hate than peoples flesh blood and lives never one to miss an opportunity to sound off in an Election Year u. S. President donald trump chimed in or rather tweeted in declaring i have authorized the federal government to arrest anyone who vandalize or destroys any monument statue or other such federal property in the United States with up to 10 years in prison who but it wasnt just the president clutching the pearls the activists gadflies and Culture Police from the right and even some on the left were also losing their collective minds on t. V. And social media over the toppling of these slave owning idols its apparently the removal of the ulysses s. Grant statue was just a line too far for some people ignoring the fact that grant despite helping to win the civil war didnt fact own slaves and presided over a particularly horrific chapter of physical and cultural genocide against native amer
Can president of the National Union of students and cofounder of students not suspect me about here joins me now by skype from laden in the netherlands thank you so much for coming on malea so as i said here stamina and Boris Johnson the Prime Minister condemning those who brought down that monument celebrating a slave trader in bristol what did you make of it i think so you. Choose to use air time at a time when the government has effectively waged war continues to wait for brown and black bodies through its cut to the National Health service through systematic rejection oppression exploitation of communities of color have led to the astronomical debt that we have seen amongst those communities and event forced the. Choir on it and start instead of using this time to read mobilize from below to ensure that this government never gets reelected again in order to. To continue bolstering and strengthening the very policies that continue to kill black people and to dehumanize them he uses
It Anthony Bryan logan is a conservative political commentator i telling us about rules of the bank that means you can jump in and want and i always appreciate it ok auntie let me go to you 1st did you know as i saw these images over the last few days of people being forced to take the knee and apologizing for their skin color or their ancestry or oh i dont know what particular groups they were black lives matter or other groups it doesnt matter to me i think just that gesture in itself should be an affront to all of us i mean when i see those kind of images i think oh maoist china and the red guard and i think of the camaro rouge i think oh stalinist trials where people have selfcriticism i find it quite horrifying and i think were going in the wrong direction in the country we should value all lives and no one should apologize for what they look like go ahead. Or you can pretty much know down right there b. C. Of value last and you know we seem to be having this thing where are you g
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This is not a 3rd world country no one should have to live like that. For example that someone lives right there. Next to somewhere where a dead body could be in this house right now. You can drive and i dont know any weekend. And if you drive around enough i think i think you will see yellow tape at some point. And we all know what the yellow tape means when it became obvious when the yellow cape come out that means a family body is day. 20. 1 you know. We need to be able to have people come out a separate. Positive thing good to come here after the next os like i said. Baltimore has a problem with killing murder. It has a problem with drug abuse it has a problem with gangs some of the poverty areas in the city have not changed for decades particularly where the riots were in the madama area that has been a poverty stricken area for generations. And its not changing it needs to change wed like it to change so far we have not broken that cycle of poverty and crime and really desperatio