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Supreme Court Justice Roberts: Rubio is unfit to be POTUS. There is no racism in US. None. Nada.
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During a Wednesday night town hall moderated by CNN, Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-FL) acknowledged that the United States has a problem with racism and
a lack of opportunity for minorities, but he said he wasn’t sure the
issue could be solved politically.
As we know the federal government has never done anything to help curb racism. Nope, not a thing.
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Rubio says,
“a disproportionate number of our children are growing up in broken homes, in dangerous neighborhoods, living in substandard housing and forced by the government to attend a failing school.” He added that kids are “going to struggle to succeed unless something breaks that cycle.”
Tax cuts? A wall between Mexico and the US? A plan to destroy ISIS? Mass deportation?
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He brought up education, saying that “a disproportionate number of our children are growing up in broken homes, in dangerous neighborhoods, living in substandard housing and forced by the government to attend a failing school.” He added that kids are “going to struggle to succeed unless something breaks that cycle.”
Some ways to address these issues:
1.) Force women to marry ANY man she can find;
2.) Use the local police force like a military occupation in any given neighborhood to keep them under heel;
3.) Give kids vouchers to go to whatever charter school will have them.
Problems solved.
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As with many things…I can’t stop what you THINK but I sure as hell can try and stop what you DO. Systemic racism must be stopped in government institutions…or any business t hat does business with same.
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He’s right. But there is a political way to make acting on racism illegal, and that slowly changes minds.
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The political solution is to keep government officials, like the police, accountable.
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You forgot mandatory religious services.
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So true. Hafta get right with God…
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The solution is to NEVER vote in a Republican to any office save dog catcher.
Then, independent or Democrat public officials can start down that long winding road to undo all the damage to race relations Republican officials have foisted on the public for decades!
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Lovely anecdotes with no solutions to problems that would actually ask him to put skin in the game. This is why he is the dream candidate for the conservative establishment. But their base wants Trump.
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Well then we can change the law that allows Cubans to remain here once they put a dry foot on U.S. soil. We don’t want them to face what you say is a racist country with no hope. Pendejo.
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May as well give up.
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The Cuban White Noise Generator…
Rubes blathers “Forced by the government to attend a failing school.” (Clearly this is another robot line, recited from the right wing agitprop script.)
Of course, the conservative solution is “Here, choose from this menu of failing schools”. God forbid “those people” go to “our schools.”
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I’m a bit pleasantly surprised at Rubio’s answer. It is obvious he has considered the situation in-depth more so than many in the Republican Party. Good on him.
That said, I personally believe there most certainly is a place in the law for institutionalized racism – and that should be pretty straight-forward, really. Racism as a whole gets its start in large part due to inaccurate and false information which helps to feed personal animosity which, in turn, continues the cycle of inaccurate and false information, lies, etc.
If the government and all businesses actually followed our laws to the letter and what they mean in spirit, we would set in motion the ability to nearly wipe out institutional racism. In our hearts? … Well, my best answer is education, education, education. Therein lies a large part of the problem – the GOP’s despise of factual, scientific education. In this regard, Rubio would be facing a near-tsunami head-on.
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I’m not sure if there is a political solution, but something Rubio and other GOP leaders can do is to start calling out their fellow politicians, conservative media, and anyone else in the GOP that says anything racist. Right now they not only tolerate it, but encourage it. Changing that would go a long way.
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He is not right. A zero tolerance policy with regards to racist remarks and actions will most definitely have an effect upon racism, particularly within police departments…which are, you know…GOVERNMENTAL departments.
The issue isn’t if we can achieve zero racism…its the goal to strive for. It brings us closer and closer to that actual goal. If we shoot for anything less we never move the dial.
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“Political solutions” to racism are kinda like money and happiness. Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can stave off a whole world of hurt.
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