On Saturday, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered a racist diatribe during a political rally in Nevada. Tuberville described Black Americans as "people that do the crime." Yesterday's Popular Information revealed Tuberville's corporate backers, a group that includes Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos.
Until/unless Republicans pay a price at the ballot box and corporations pay a price in terms of their bottom line, none of this will stop. In fact, it will only get worse.
This election is about who we are as a nation. Are we racists at heart, meaning we will just look the other way? Are we just about having power and not sharing it? Having money and never having to pay a cent of taxes?
Or are we about freedom and justice and equality for all people, not just the haves and the well-connected?
Tuberville was, is, and has always been a racist. Every person born and raised in Alabama knew that.
Will the big corporations have some guts and heart or will they cower behind their money?
Two things. One the Republicans are now just saying the quiet part out loud and have embraced a racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic platform on which they are rarely actually challenged. This brings me to my second point. The media needs to hold them accountable. Instead of asking politicians what they think about their candidate's racist comments (uh I didn't hear them), ask them how they personally can defend such racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic comments. I feel like in an effort to be balanced in their viewpoints, the media often ends up playing into the GOP's hands. We need to call it out for what it is, challenge them, and keep repeating it ad nauseam. Don't let them get away with it! And yes vote them out of office!
This is why the left continues to lose the news and culture battle. It's been a few days now and this story has largely gone away except for Popular Information. Reporters need to call out Tuberville and ask him about his comments nonstop. Make him clarify. Keep letting people know that he's an overt racist. How incredibly sad that black people are serving these racists and defending them.
Judd, you might write about Tuberville's own securities law problems in the past, as well as the way in which his current wife's vehicular manslaughter charge was magically "disappeared". The victim's name was Ira Purdy. Those who live in glass houses, and all that. And Tuberville is making racist rants? "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
Aha! And right there in the story, the Purdy's lawyer says a citation was issued to Suzanne Tuberville but the Lubbock Police Department says there is no record of any citations issued. Curious eh?
My brother was a DA in Nashville and helped elect Glenn Funk who’s a fellow democrat. I was shocked in 2018 the entire white male DAs office boycotted the Super Bowl as a racist f you to Colin Kaepernick. White Democrats are racist AF too.
Wait! They're NOT racist. Republicans I mean. You know they aren't. You KNOW they aren't! Why? Cause they SAID so! That's why. Matter of fact, the first person to mention race... is the RACIST! It's in "The Good Book."
I guess Tommy Tuberville doesn’t keep track of the color of mass murderers. Mostly White Christian young men.
We need to see Trump et al arrested. We need to give GQP their Oct surprise. Ian is correct, unless a price is paid, they consider it permission to continue.
Hundreds of millions of dollars can and does make a whole lot of people believe whatever you want them to believe. The narrative belongs to the wealthiest donors.
His comments were racially insensitive only but based on facts and statistics. It is the Democrats, like they always have, demonstrating most of the racist behavior today. It is just a new form of racism... "those guns and religion" people neoracism. But it has the same intent to punch down others of different socioeconomic status so to prevent competition for power and resources. Democrats have been doing this for a while and paid for it at the polls in 2016 and without a pandemic they would have paid again in 2020. Minorities voters are leaving the Democrats in droves because of the sickness of wokeness and the insane woke policies. You would think that Democrats would truly wake from their stupor and stop it.
People have had enough of this insanity and meanwhile, Musk will own Twitter.
You again? Here are some facts and figures you should consider from the Dept of Justice.
After compiling all ages, all races and all offenses: Whites committed 5,335,610 crimes in total while Blacks (although over represented) committed ,992,510 crimes.
Interesting how you just lied about the data on the report:
White crimes = 5,335,610. Black crimes = 1,992,510.
White population = 75.8% Black population = 13.6%
Twitter will no longer be an exclusive tool of the woke mob to attempt to cancel people for speaking the truth that conflicts with the agenda of the woke mob.
Never lied. Mistyped the number. You obviously followed the link and saw the error. Thanks for the correction. However, to be truthful Frank, you are the liar here. I merely made a typing error and you quite predictably, tried to hyperbolize it into something else.
It was a very convenient mistype, you have to admit.
The bottom line here is that there is a clear statistical fact that blacks are significantly over-represented in crime. We should absolutely discuss the reasons for that because without understanding the cause of a problem we can never solve a problem. However, to lay a claim of racism at someone who simply speaks the truth on that fact... well that is worse than racism.
Conspiratorial thinking is a hyperbolic RW predilection and vice. It was an error, no more. With regards to Tuberville, he doesn't care about the root causes of crime anymore than you do. So your statement, while cloaked in an aura of reasonability, is disingenuous and in bad faith at best.
Tuberville is a RACIST playing to a RACIST crowd and no efforts by you to change, or deny, or dismiss these attitudes is going to change that fact one iota.
Those ideologues that throw around unfounded and weak claims of racism against political opponents are intellectually weak, bankrupt of moral fortitude and toxic to the whole. You make your own tent to sleep in buddy. Unfortunately you also crap in the park of political discourse and stink it up for everyone else.
Until/unless Republicans pay a price at the ballot box and corporations pay a price in terms of their bottom line, none of this will stop. In fact, it will only get worse.
This election is about who we are as a nation. Are we racists at heart, meaning we will just look the other way? Are we just about having power and not sharing it? Having money and never having to pay a cent of taxes?
Or are we about freedom and justice and equality for all people, not just the haves and the well-connected?
Tuberville was, is, and has always been a racist. Every person born and raised in Alabama knew that.
Will the big corporations have some guts and heart or will they cower behind their money?
At this point, the racism is a feature, not a bug. Reagan’s dog whistles have been replaced by blaring siren.
Two things. One the Republicans are now just saying the quiet part out loud and have embraced a racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic platform on which they are rarely actually challenged. This brings me to my second point. The media needs to hold them accountable. Instead of asking politicians what they think about their candidate's racist comments (uh I didn't hear them), ask them how they personally can defend such racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic comments. I feel like in an effort to be balanced in their viewpoints, the media often ends up playing into the GOP's hands. We need to call it out for what it is, challenge them, and keep repeating it ad nauseam. Don't let them get away with it! And yes vote them out of office!
This is why the left continues to lose the news and culture battle. It's been a few days now and this story has largely gone away except for Popular Information. Reporters need to call out Tuberville and ask him about his comments nonstop. Make him clarify. Keep letting people know that he's an overt racist. How incredibly sad that black people are serving these racists and defending them.
You know, you're absolutely right. It's fading because you know, racism? Denial of racism? Something just as or more stupid than racism? Other?
Judd, you might write about Tuberville's own securities law problems in the past, as well as the way in which his current wife's vehicular manslaughter charge was magically "disappeared". The victim's name was Ira Purdy. Those who live in glass houses, and all that. And Tuberville is making racist rants? "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
Thank you RB. That's good information.
Aha! And right there in the story, the Purdy's lawyer says a citation was issued to Suzanne Tuberville but the Lubbock Police Department says there is no record of any citations issued. Curious eh?
https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2012/02/21/man-hit-suzanne-tubervilles-vehicle-dies-almost-four-months-after-accident/15174377007/
So, this is America.
‘Land of the free and home of the brave’.
That is unless you are a politician’s favored by corporate donors.
But the mighty corporations are too chicken.... to call out racism, blatant, ugly racism from ‘their’ politicians.
One must assume they are not in opposition to this trashy act, that GQP politicians are presenting.
No surprise by the GQP, who frequently spew their hatred and then pretend they did not.
But what about our Country?
Do we pretend to be good people, and hide behind our Christian roots. And that makes it ok? No.
Im quite sure whoever your “God” is , He is not pleased.
Makes sense that Tuberville used to be a football coach. He sure knows how to read from the GOP playbook.
My brother was a DA in Nashville and helped elect Glenn Funk who’s a fellow democrat. I was shocked in 2018 the entire white male DAs office boycotted the Super Bowl as a racist f you to Colin Kaepernick. White Democrats are racist AF too.
Wait! They're NOT racist. Republicans I mean. You know they aren't. You KNOW they aren't! Why? Cause they SAID so! That's why. Matter of fact, the first person to mention race... is the RACIST! It's in "The Good Book."
/s
I guess Tommy Tuberville doesn’t keep track of the color of mass murderers. Mostly White Christian young men.
We need to see Trump et al arrested. We need to give GQP their Oct surprise. Ian is correct, unless a price is paid, they consider it permission to continue.
Hundreds of millions of dollars can and does make a whole lot of people believe whatever you want them to believe. The narrative belongs to the wealthiest donors.
You know what? That fear of getting “replaced” ?
Jimmy Kimmel had it right, last night.
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH ‼️
Let’s enjoy our diverse cuisines, and culture. I’m not scared.
His comments were racially insensitive only but based on facts and statistics. It is the Democrats, like they always have, demonstrating most of the racist behavior today. It is just a new form of racism... "those guns and religion" people neoracism. But it has the same intent to punch down others of different socioeconomic status so to prevent competition for power and resources. Democrats have been doing this for a while and paid for it at the polls in 2016 and without a pandemic they would have paid again in 2020. Minorities voters are leaving the Democrats in droves because of the sickness of wokeness and the insane woke policies. You would think that Democrats would truly wake from their stupor and stop it.
People have had enough of this insanity and meanwhile, Musk will own Twitter.
You again? Here are some facts and figures you should consider from the Dept of Justice.
After compiling all ages, all races and all offenses: Whites committed 5,335,610 crimes in total while Blacks (although over represented) committed ,992,510 crimes.
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
And who really cares about Twitter? Other than the shareholders and you?
Interesting how you just lied about the data on the report:
White crimes = 5,335,610. Black crimes = 1,992,510.
White population = 75.8% Black population = 13.6%
Twitter will no longer be an exclusive tool of the woke mob to attempt to cancel people for speaking the truth that conflicts with the agenda of the woke mob.
Never lied. Mistyped the number. You obviously followed the link and saw the error. Thanks for the correction. However, to be truthful Frank, you are the liar here. I merely made a typing error and you quite predictably, tried to hyperbolize it into something else.
It was a very convenient mistype, you have to admit.
The bottom line here is that there is a clear statistical fact that blacks are significantly over-represented in crime. We should absolutely discuss the reasons for that because without understanding the cause of a problem we can never solve a problem. However, to lay a claim of racism at someone who simply speaks the truth on that fact... well that is worse than racism.
Conspiratorial thinking is a hyperbolic RW predilection and vice. It was an error, no more. With regards to Tuberville, he doesn't care about the root causes of crime anymore than you do. So your statement, while cloaked in an aura of reasonability, is disingenuous and in bad faith at best.
Tuberville is a RACIST playing to a RACIST crowd and no efforts by you to change, or deny, or dismiss these attitudes is going to change that fact one iota.
You know this but you still pretend otherwise.
Those ideologues that throw around unfounded and weak claims of racism against political opponents are intellectually weak, bankrupt of moral fortitude and toxic to the whole. You make your own tent to sleep in buddy. Unfortunately you also crap in the park of political discourse and stink it up for everyone else.
Racism is a GQP feature, not a bug.
It's clear that Republicans will now deny anything can be racist unless the person doing or saying it is wearing an actual Klan robe.