Virtual737 wrote:A Trump supporter interviewed this morning in a video shown on CNN (I was watching both Fox News and CNN so I'm pretty sure it was on the former) stated that:
All races have experienced slavery but the blacks are the only ones complaining about it.
I mean, how can you even begin to have discussion with that kind of.... ignorance?
You can't. But please be assured that various far right groups took part in being traitors.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/95824053 ... capitol-si
Federal investigators say they have arrested several alleged members of extremist and white supremacist groups who participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building.
At least eight people allegedly affiliated with organizations such as The Three Percenters, The Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Texas Freedom Force, and other self-described Nazis and white supremacists were among those who joined the thousands that stormed the U.S. Capitol building, according to federal investigators.
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Details of their arrests highlight how different, yet organized, extremist groups, with members throughout the country, coalesced to support Trump and his (disproven) claims that the November election was stolen. Law enforcement officials were able to track suspects down by using information gleaned from tipsters, social media posts shared by the accused, and news media coverage.
Then to further prove how racist the Trump Administration is, on Martin Luthor King Jr day, they released the 1776 commission report. A racist challenge to the 1619 report. No real historian was asked to take part in the racist commission. Those that did , including Pompeo, produced a lasting racist document that will instantly tarnish any person that tries to use it for any school curriculum,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/p ... eport.html
The report drew intense criticism from historians, some of whom noted that the commission, while stocked with conservative educators, did not include a single professional historian of the United States.
James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, said the report was not a work of history, but “cynical politics.”
“This report skillfully weaves together myths, distortions, deliberate silences, and both blatant and subtle misreading of evidence to create a narrative and an argument that few respectable professional historians, even across a wide interpretive spectrum, would consider plausible, never mind convincing,” he said.
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