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Home Front: Politix
Sanders: America Was Founded On 'Racist Principles. That's A Fact.'
2015-09-15
[DAILYCALLER] SANDERS: I hope that every person in this room today understands that it is unacceptable to judge people, discriminate against people based on the color of their skin.
Yeah. You'd expect to hear some old white guy come up with something like that.
I'm surprised as all get out that the media actually reported something Bernie said, rather than just the size of his rallies. Must be a Clintonista at the DC...
And I will also say, that as a nation — the truth is a nation that in many ways was created, and I’m sorry to have to say this from way back, on racist principles, that’s a fact.
Having started out from the same cultural spot as everybody else means the whole idea's flawed. We'll have to go back and start all over again. Just as soon as we can find some way to change history.
We have come a long way as a nation.
But that doesn't matter.
Now I know, my guess is that probably not everybody here is an admirer or a voter for Barack Obama, but the point is that in 2008, this country took a huge step forward in voting for a candidate based on his ideas and not the color of his skin.
And the country ended up with a guy whose primary defining characteristic--in his own mind, not ours at the beginning--was the color of his own skin.
Posted by:Fred

#18  If he wants to bankrupt the country, this is an outstanding man to vote for.

Think of it as our own private Yugoslavia.

Dunno who said it, but: These are not new ideas. They have been tried on three continents and failed.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-09-15 21:01  

#17  $18 trillion my ass! Boston's Big Dig was originally slated to cost $2.8 billion. Price tag upon completion of the project = $14.6 billion. With add-ins (like paying interest, repairing structural defects & lawsuits), even the Boston Freaking Globe estimates the final price tag to be about $22 billion.

If he wants to bankrupt the country, this is an outstanding man to vote for.
Posted by: Raj   2015-09-15 20:54  

#16  Wow, I stand corrected. Gotta remember that next time I speak to my overly-British friend (who none-the-less became a US citizen).
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-15 15:16  

#15  I could be wrong but I believe Britannia beat us on that one by a number of years.

Slavery Abolition Act 1833 - Britain.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 - US. Passed by the Congress in Confederation prior to the adoption of the Constitution. You got to start somewhere.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-15 15:07  

#14  I hope that every person in this room today understands that it is unacceptable to judge people, discriminate against people based on the color of their skin.

Does that mean we can do away with Affirmative Action? Didn't think so. Fuck off, Bernie.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-09-15 14:51  

#13  "Why pick on the newly minted united STATES of America, who at least banned slavery in the Northwest Territories, let alone had already done it among the constituents of the north ahead of the rest of the world? "

I could be wrong but I believe Britannia beat us on that one by a number of years. Still, Islam hasn't really gotten rid of slavery yet, will Bernie comment on that?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-15 14:03  

#12  the very first foreign war the new republic of the USA ever fought was to free slaves

you know

to free the european, amerian, british and irish slaves taken by the Caliphate

the Barbary states raided and took slaves claiming Islam entitled them to take kuffrs if they wished.

so everything is relative. the US was racist compared to who?

the US enshrined the enlightenment values of the rights of the individual in a constitution

where else did that?

It is from these inalienable rights of the individual that the right to equality for black and white, man and woman, gay and straight comes from.

inalienable rights

versus negotiated rights - such as freedom to do what you like in the name of religion
Posted by: anon1   2015-09-15 12:31  

#11  Chill oot Charlie sez:

We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.

This works for Bernie and the deme plus RINOs but not for mean olde Mr. Arithmetic.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-09-15 12:24  

#10  This B.S. is getting old. So the party of the KKK speaks.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-15 12:17  

#9  I enjoy watching and listening to Sanders. Memories of the old Soviet Collectives are fading. An occasional reminder is not a bad thing, and the fact he's a dem candidate provides even more clarity.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-09-15 10:43  

#8  Oh... and all his pie in the sky proposals?

$18 trillion over a decade

And that is before government cost overruns. And people wonder why Western Europe can't afford a military.

I'll say it again, choke on broccoli asshat.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-09-15 10:38  

#7  I'm glad Bernie came out so unequivocally against "affirmative action" apartheid
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-09-15 10:16  

#6  The part I particularly liked was "Fuck you Bernie. Please choke on Broccoli."

we can all hardly wait for the American People to vote for more of your Democratic Party Hope and Change. Maybe they like pink bicycles and not having a job. But then Bend Over is the new Stand Tall..

Bernie Sanders the " Bend Over, America " candidate.
Posted by: Tiny Snins1607   2015-09-15 09:50  

#5  Guilt...
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-15 08:24  

#4  Gee Bernie, the whole world was racist back then. Why pick on the newly minted united STATES of America, who at least banned slavery in the Northwest Territories, let alone had already done it among the constituents of the north ahead of the rest of the world? Way in the lead and still condemned.

"You have sin! The only way to get rid of that sin is to obey ME!"

Quilt and Hate - tools of Socialism
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-15 08:23  

#3  I hope that every person in this room today understands that it is unacceptable to judge people, discriminate against people based on the color of their skin.

Unless they're white, of course.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-15 06:17  

#2  America is bad. Wealth is bad. So give it to the government so we can decide who is good. Aka who gives us enough bribes.

Fuck you Bernie. Please choke on Broccoli.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-09-15 00:55  

#1  From the party of slavery.

Driving using the rear view mirrors.
Karl Marx really did a number on you folks.
Posted by: newc   2015-09-15 00:49  

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