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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions sure is auditioning hard for Trump:
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/01/sessions-called-black-scholar-some-criminal/"SNIP......
Sessions Called Black Scholar Some Criminal
July 1, 2020 at 10:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 235 Comments
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions referred to Henry Louis Gates Jr., a celebrated Black Harvard University scholar, as some criminal in the New York Times Magazine.
CNN notes Gates had been wrongfully arrested by a police officer in 2009 as he tried to enter his own home. After the incident, then-President Barack Obama invited Gates and the arresting officer to the White House for a beer summit.
Said Sessions: The police had been demoralized. There was all the Obama theres a riot, and he has a beer at the White House with some criminal, to listen to him.
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Sessions sure is auditioning hard for Trump: (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2020
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lastlib
(23,366 posts)1. Racists gotta racist......
applegrove
(118,900 posts)2. He's showing off.
Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)3. Gates should sue Sessions
But I remember when that happened. It was a rare miscue by Obama that led to the beer summit. Obama took a verbal shot at the cop and it backfired on him.
He could have used that moment to point out that many black Americans had suffered the same type of injustice as Gates. It could have been powerful. Instead, Obama had to walk back his comments and have the "why can't we all just love each other moment."
I think that moment taught Obama a great deal about being President and seizing on opportunities. I don't remember him making a similar mistake like that again.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)4. Some people just are spineless wimps who just take humiliation, look at Cruz, the same....
Disgusting wet wipes.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)6. Sessions needs a government job.
He has never done an honest days work in his damn life!