Because it's probably coming down one way or another in the near future and he is aware enough to know this is not the time to have that fight.
And yeah it is a crap law to begin with.
Jermaine Johnson inciting violence in Bham
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And yeah it is a crap law to begin with.
I've heard far more violence inciting from the President's Twitter feed.
Me too.
Mayor Woodfin showed real leadership by establishing a curfew and doing what is best for his city.
Anyone have a link to the full video where Funnymaine states he does not want looting and the like? PM me if need be due to language.
Jermaine Johnson went live tonight on FB with a video that proves he told people NOT to destroy or loot when he spoke Sunday night. I am not linking due to language. (but I will if the right person says to)
I wasn’t a huge fan of his videos. They tended to be repetitive and it got old in a hurry for me. But I may start sharing them this fall just to make people mad.
Trump is a lot like Friday XIII. He expects people to bow to him and say “Correct as usual”.
It hasn't been as widely reported, but the same group also set fire to the statue of Thomas Jefferson. One would expect that statues & monuments of Jefferson and George Washington are next.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alaba...-statue-set-fire-to-thomas-jefferson-monument
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alaba...-statue-set-fire-to-thomas-jefferson-monument
Yeah not really
"Measuring a movement
We have two clear cases of African-Americans saying statues of Washington should come down, and one case involving the Jefferson Memorial.
For context, we compared this to the interest in removing Confederate statues. As an approximate measure, we turned to the Nexis database of articles in major newspapers.
Between Aug. 11 and Aug. 22 (the day before Kemp’s email), there were 2,113 articles that mentioned removing Confederate statues, but made no mention of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
In the same period, 183 articles mentioned removing Washington or Jefferson statues. This included Trump’s own reference to people seeking to take down those statues.
Roughly speaking, the removal of Confederate statues is at least 11 times more commonly mentioned than taking down statues of Washington or Jefferson."
So its really a fringe group
The Birmingham crowd got out of control with their vandalism mostly due to their inability to take down the monument they went there to take down, and basically just started vandalizing everything that looked like a confederate or plantation owner. Hell they even vandalized a WWI monument.
More or less this "This is a slippery slope that is going to lead to the removal of Washington and Jefferson" is mostly unfounded hogwash that Trump, the Trump base, and the Lost Cause supporters have made in order to frighten people to strongly oppose the removal of Confederate statues.
Also consider that since the Dylan Roof that still over 1700 statues of the confederate states still remain, and less than 200 were actually removed since. So it really isn't this crazy rush to get them down like Fox has made it out to be. It is usually been local communities with an African American majority voting to take them down.
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