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The Republican presidential contender and former Arkansas governor said Tuesday in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he's bothered by the movement's focus on one ethnicity.
"When I hear people scream, 'black lives matter,' I think, 'Of course they do.' But all lives matter. It's not that any life matters more than another," Huckabee said in the interview aired on "The Situation Room."
"That's the whole message that Dr. King tried to present, and I think he'd be appalled by the notion that we're elevating some lives above others," Huckabee said.
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Protesters -- seeking justice for deaths African-Americans while in police custody -- have interrupted speeches by two Democratic candidates, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, and got a private audience with Hillary Clinton.
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romanic
(2,841 posts)would be appalled by making a ten year old carry a baby conceived by rape.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)Sojourner Truth? He can stfu now.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Or there is a war to be waged, or if they get the death penalty.
Huckabee has no standing to complain.
I do think that Dr King would be disappointed with the actions of some people in the Black Lives Matter group, but more so with how slow our progress on racial and economic issues has been.
Gman
(24,780 posts)spanone
(135,886 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)sick ass GOP party and their cronies.
No, MLK would not approve of the GOP's insane agenda.
Johonny
(20,890 posts)Luckily we don't have to care.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)...Or did he become one solely from sheer will and determination.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,199 posts)They'd find every chance to bash him left and right, call him an agitator, a black racist, a communist, whatever.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)"Black people are getting killed, but......"
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Someone needs to do a BLM Bingo card. I think we have enough pat phrases and dog whistles now.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)What he thinks are 'sins' probably includes saying no to a cop while black.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)interact with all the others; so it's easy to have a political theology
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)When a politician who's also a pastor talks about sin, he is speaking from the sacred rather than the secular. In his case, he's also pandering to his base, those religious who want our society to conform to their beliefs.
malaise
(269,187 posts)That is all
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He spoke out for workers and union members of all races. He spoke out against a war that was killing young people of all races. He shouted out for freedom for all people, Jews, Gentiles, Protestants, and Catholics. But there's no doubt his number one mission was to seek equality for impoverish black people surrounded by an ocean of material wealth.
"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Paladin
(28,276 posts)What a filthy individual he is.