Black guest on CNN says racism not an issue

Black guest stuns CNN anchor:Racism is ‘not a major problem"
Fri Aug 22, 2014 3:53 pm
Black guest stuns CNN anchor: Racism is ‘not a major problem’ in this country

If you have watched any of the mainstream media’s coverage of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, you have probably heard the incident reduced to these terms: An unarmed black ‘teen’ was shot dead by white police officer. The racial narrative in this case – much like the Trayvon Martin case – is being further perpetuated by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

But there are some black voices speaking out against the perpetuation of this theme. During an appearance on CNN Wednesday, radio and television personality Larry Elder noticeably stunned anchor Brooke Baldwin when he frankly declared the media overstates the role of racism in this country.

ELDER: I think the media perceives racism to be a far bigger in America. That’s why we spend so much time on people like Donald Sterling, and Cliven Bundy, and before that it was Paul Ryan, who said some things that were racially intemperate. I think we’ve been training black people to think racism is a bigger deal. I think the reason the left wants that is because of votes and power.

I think we have been training black people to think that racism is a bigger deal. And I think the reason that the left wants that is because of votes and power. As long as black people believe that race and racism are the major problem in America, you have got that 95 percent monolithic black vote, without which the Democratic Party cannot survive.

So you have the Jesses and the Als and Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Harry Reid constantly bringing up race cards, talking about Republicans raging a war against black people and so forth. So black people have been trained. Surprise, surprise, people in Ferguson believe that the racist criminal justice system is oppressing them, because Barack Obama and Eric Holder have said statements that have given that impression.

Clearly taken aback by Elder’s sentiment, Baldwin doubled down, asking Elder if believes “racism is not a major problem in this country.”

“No, it is not a major problem in this country,” Elder confirmed. “We have a thriving black middle class. If black America were a country, Brooke, it would be the 15th wealthiest country in the world. For crying out loud, this is not your grandfather’s America. We ought not act like it is.”

Watch the segment below (applicable video begins around the 8:15 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL8DfQLS6gU

On radio this morning, Pat and Stu praised Elder for his willingness to break free of the talking points and paint a different picture of the black community in America.

“That is a statistic I’m embarrassed I didn’t know,” Stu said. “Larry Elder has been a really strong voice for a long time on these issues. That’s an amazing statistic. I’ve never heard that.”

To Elder’s point, when you consider the opportunities available to the black community today that did not exist just a few decades ago, it is difficult to understand why the racial narrative continues to take hold.

“I don’t know where Brooke Baldwin lives, but, Brooke, this is a country, the one we live in, where we have an African-American president,” Pat concluded. “We have a black attorney general. We have black CEOs. It’s not perfect. But is race a major problem? It really is not.”

http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/08/21/black-guest-stuns-cnn-anchor-racism-is-not-a-major-problem-in-this-country/

Racism is a large part of the problem. The drug war and the expansion and militarization of the police did not happen because of a imagined white threat.......From the early Nixon southern strategy, it has been a mix of political opportunity to exploit deep seated racism, and the realities of poverty. We must start by reductions in our criminal justice system of about 25 percent.

2seaoat wrote:Racism is a large part of the problem.   The drug war and the expansion and militarization of the police did not happen because of a imagined white threat.......From the early Nixon southern strategy, it has been a mix of political opportunity to exploit deep seated racism, and the realities of poverty.  We must start by reductions in our criminal justice system of about 25 percent.

Racism is continually brought up by you as the number one problem for many situations. Of course it is not the reason for multiple black murders in Chicago, the safest place ever, with an average of 60 or more weekend shootings......


Our criminal justice system is set up according to crimes committed. It is not based on black versus white as you seem to always want to claim and point out.

Militarization of the police originated because of the potential for bodily harm to officers. Ferguson violence is a prime example of why it is needed. Rioting and looting is not how civilized people should protest. It doesn't normally happen in protests.....it is done legally....but for some it is nothing more than a chance to get stuff for free and destroy property belonging to others.

Pathetic...golly gee, we wouldn't want someone destroying someone else's property, now would we? We're talking about taking a life here...not some Levis.

Floridatexan wrote:
Pathetic...golly gee, we wouldn't want someone destroying someone else's property, now would we? We're talking about taking a life here...not some Levis.

What exactly is accomplished by destroying their own community? Running more businesses away?

Yea team..!!

Of course it is not the reason for multiple black murders in Chicago, the safest place ever, with an average of 60 or more weekend shootings......

A direct result of the Nixon initiated war on drugs and war on the black man in America. Prohibition and mandatory drug sentencing has crippled the black communities in America. Sentencing is unequal, and our jails are filled to the brim with black youth.....the target of this war. Decriminalize drugs, change drug sentencing, unwind the militarization of American law enforcement, and spend those billions on job training, tax credits for creating American jobs, and further investments in our infrastructure. That sucking sound in our economy has been the dollars necessary to support a bloated law enforcement sector with the largest penal colony in the world. Keep the blinders on and think every thing is hunky dory racially. It is not. It will take generations as we unwind the racists policies of the drug war and growth of law enforcement in this nation.

The drug war policy affected the poor disproportionately... not just blacks. You racist govt lovin sob.

"and spend those billions on"... you are to blame that the govt overreach is where it is today. Bunch of statist idiots.

2seaoat wrote:Racism is a large part of the problem.   The drug war and the expansion and militarization of the police did not happen because of a imagined white threat.......From the early Nixon southern strategy, it has been a mix of political opportunity to exploit deep seated racism, and the realities of poverty.  We must start by reductions in our criminal justice system of about 25 percent.

Send your thank you note to our semi-retired President. The most divisive President in modern history.

2seaoat wrote:Of course it is not the reason for multiple black murders in Chicago, the safest place ever, with an average of 60 or more weekend shootings......

A direct result of the Nixon initiated war on drugs and war on the black man in America.  Prohibition and mandatory drug sentencing has crippled the black communities in America.   Sentencing is unequal, and our jails are filled to the brim with black youth.....the target of this war.   Decriminalize drugs, change drug sentencing, unwind the militarization of American law enforcement, and spend those billions on job training, tax credits for creating American jobs, and further investments in our infrastructure.   That sucking sound in our economy has been the dollars necessary to support a bloated law enforcement sector with the largest penal colony in the world.   Keep the blinders on and think every thing is hunky dory racially.   It is not.   It will take generations as we unwind the racists policies of the drug war and growth of law enforcement in this nation.

Sorry, but as you well know, the problems trace directly back to President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his "Great Society" and the War on Poverty.

Markle wrote:

2seaoat wrote:Of course it is not the reason for multiple black murders in Chicago, the safest place ever, with an average of 60 or more weekend shootings......

A direct result of the Nixon initiated war on drugs and war on the black man in America.  Prohibition and mandatory drug sentencing has crippled the black communities in America.   Sentencing is unequal, and our jails are filled to the brim with black youth.....the target of this war.   Decriminalize drugs, change drug sentencing, unwind the militarization of American law enforcement, and spend those billions on job training, tax credits for creating American jobs, and further investments in our infrastructure.   That sucking sound in our economy has been the dollars necessary to support a bloated law enforcement sector with the largest penal colony in the world.   Keep the blinders on and think every thing is hunky dory racially.   It is not.   It will take generations as we unwind the racists policies of the drug war and growth of law enforcement in this nation.

Sorry, but as you well know, the problems trace directly back to President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his "Great Society" and the War on Poverty.

That certainly hadn't had the desired effect... but then again neither did the civil war if an end of racism was the goal.

The english, french, and most other advanced cultures were ending slavery in the decade or two leading up to our doing the same. The big difference has to be that they didn't have a war to accomplish it... right? Then the question is... why did we?

Would we have a more homogenous society if it took another ten years to abolish slavery peacefully? Maybe so.

Not much we can do now to change something that happened 150 years ago... it's relevance today is a political tool.

Floridatexan wrote:
Pathetic...golly gee, we wouldn't want someone destroying someone else's property, now would we?  We're talking about taking a life here...not some Levis.

You just can't make these things up!

This is not a pair of Levis. If this were your store, what would you do? Hand out free Levis to everyone?

Sal wrote:The Obama presidency has certainly served to illuminate the breadth and depth and virulence of both institutional and individual racism still simmering beneath the surface in America.

It was hidden, and to some degree we were in denial, for some time.

But, it remains, and people of good conscience are beginning to realize and reject it.

More people are seeing America for what it really is.

This awakening will be the catalyst for change that will sweep Markle and people of his worldview to the curb.

He is already completely irrelevant to the national discourse, he just doesn't know it yet.

So you actually believe that race relations are better now than before semi-retired President Barack Hussein Obama took office.

Wow....

Floridatexan wrote:
Pathetic...golly gee, we wouldn't want someone destroying someone else's property, now would we?  We're talking about taking a life here...not some Levis.

Fuck you....we are talking about an out of control group of assholes looting and burning down buildings. Some, if not all, will not be covered by insurance. They're ruining the livelihood of small business owners just to satisfy their selfish evil behaviour. Nothing but a bunch barbaric jackasses.

Joanimaroni wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
Pathetic...golly gee, we wouldn't want someone destroying someone else's property, now would we?  We're talking about taking a life here...not some Levis.

Fuck you....we are talking about an out of control group of assholes looting and burning down buildings. Some, if not all, will not be covered by insurance. They're ruining the livelihood of small business owners just to satisfy their selfish evil behaviour. Nothing but a bunch barbaric jackasses.

Well... that was pretty good. But next time try to let it fly... lol. ( ;

Sal wrote:The vast majority of demonstrators were peaceful. 


Large demonstrations usually attract a parasitic criminal element. 

And it did. CNN reported some of the protesters arrested were from Chicago and Detroit.

The local church groups did their best to try and control the protesters.

Sal wrote:The vast majority of demonstrators were peaceful. 


Large demonstrations usually attract a parasitic criminal element. 

You don't give that benefit of doubt to the right... you can't seriously expect to get that pass for the left.

You sorry excuse for a human. You have no heart and no soul. I don't care how much you talk about loving your grandchildren; you will end up hurting them, because you're basically a sick person. And back at ya, (expletive deleted).

Floridatexan wrote:
Pathetic...golly gee, we wouldn't want someone destroying someone else's property, now would we?  We're talking about taking a life here...not some Levis.

That's the attitude I love about you supposedly enlightened progressive liberals. Burn the town down in protest of a perceived wrong. I'm sure you'll feel the same way about that happening to your home too. just remember...

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OyrX11cMkE