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"My message is that we have a great country, we have the greatest country on Earth. We have a heritage, we have a history and we should learn from the history, and if you dont understand your history, you will go back to it again. You will go right back to it. You have to learn. Think of it, you take away that whole era and youre going to go back to it sometime. People wont know about it. Theyre going to forget about it. Its okay.
Now what I do like, I like the idea of building new statues to people, to great people. People that have done something. And I think thats okay.
But you dont want to take away our heritage and history and the beauty, in many cases, the beauty, the artistic beauty. Some of the sculptures and some of this work is some of the great you can go to France, you can go anywhere in the world and you will never see more magnificent work. And thats a factor. Its not the biggest factor but its a factor."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/lifestylegeneral/trump-tells-african-americans-to-understand-their-history-or-you-will-go-back-to-it-again/ar-BB166xVG
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Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)and not see one statue of a Nazi Party member.
BTW:
That's fucking rich.
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DBoon
(22,424 posts)and not see a single statue of Stalin either
History isn't about the past so much as it is about what you are and what you want to be. The facts are the same, the story is different depending on your aspirations.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Obviously, Trump prefers the latter.
bucolic_frolic
(43,476 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)dalton99a
(81,700 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)Botany
(70,639 posts)But if you go to France and look they have great beauty and this shows about going back to it and being aware of the past to know where you are going.
We are being run by the crazy man on the bench in the park.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)No thanks.
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)It's not "no read".
It's" can't read"!
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)together. Dazzle them with bullshit.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Don the Con, not so much.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Little Don understands his history of entitlement and white supremacy very well. Father Fred taught him everything he wanted him to know about racism and white entitlement. Little Donnie was such a willing and apt student for those subjects.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Whamo! I found myself a slave on a southern plantation. How did this happen, I wondered? Then I remembered the sterling words of President Trump: I had not understood my history, and here I was, back in slavery. Damn. Why didn't I listen to Donald Trump? Whyyyyyyyy???
Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)Goodheart
(5,351 posts)who thinks himself a genius.
Good lord, somebody make it stop.
PSPS
(13,635 posts)crickets
(25,990 posts)string together coherent thoughts. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Done.
Dem2theMax
(9,660 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Boy, am I dating myself, but for the record I never saw a living dinosaur.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)... when thinking Donald Trump's speech must have been done by some bad BASIC script on a Commodore 64. I had to look up Eliza... The first chatbot eh?
niyad
(113,860 posts)Genius EVAH!!
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)of my life that was wasted reading Trumps mindless drivel
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)This from the guy who thinks BLM is hate speech and does everything in his power to provoke civil division.
Kablooie
(18,646 posts)The US will start up slavery again.
A fine and well considered supposition, by cracky.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)Like Fredo....could someone please take him for a "boat ride"?
Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I haven't received my bullshit decoder ring yet.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Seriously, WTF is he trying to say? If we tear down Confederate statues, slavery will return? The doofus cannot express a coherent thought.
PatrickforO
(14,604 posts)but the word salad? Not so much. And that's a factor...
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,500 posts)Exactly what history story will I learn when on vacation and I go to a park and stop and stare at a statue for 30-seconds?
I've seen dozens of them and I must be stupid 'cause I didn't learn a damn thing......
Oh yes, there is the fact that pigeons shit on statues a lot......
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)We learn that someone sculpted a statue.
Beyond that, not so much!
bucolic_frolic
(43,476 posts)"that whole era and youre going to go back to it sometime. People wont know about it."
Is he wacko? Or is he saying we ARE going back there, or he INTENDS to take us back there, and you won't hear about it because ... no more First Amendment? Because they're not telling the truth about COVID, or what's going on in Afghanistan ... it's like a news blackout during wartime.
Tell me I'm wrong. I want to be wrong about what I'm reading into this. It can't be happening, it can't be even a subliminal thought in his mind. Can it?
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 3, 2020, 12:30 AM - Edit history (1)
Sure as hell sounds like it.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(730 posts)We ain't having it, trust me.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)We have enough blood on our hands. NO MORE.
FUCK TRUMP.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(730 posts)The one thing that all of us need to remember that there are FAR MORE OF US than there are of them...
roamer65
(36,748 posts)I cant fix the past, but I sure as hell can affect the future.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)I sure as shit aint letting that happen to my countrymen. My fellow human beings. Nope nope nope nope, nuh uh, fuck all that noise.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(730 posts)YOU CHEEKY BASTARD! Let's get a few things straight ....
First of all, your IGNORANT ggrandpappy WASN'T EVEN ON THIS CONTINENT during the Civil War, (NOT that he'd have had the balls to ACTUALLY fight anyone). So, let's get that the f*ck straight. I know facts don't mean much to you and your 1st 3 spawn, don jr,(or as I call him, THE DRUNK), Eric the Simple & your Incestuous Dream Girl, Lady Plastica & her DL Consort Jared, (I have it on good authority I trust that he is WELL KNOWN in more than a few gay date sites, bath houses, gay bars & by a few specialised "companions for rent" companies).
SECONDLY, the honourable descendants of the people THE SPANISH, THE PORTUGEUSE, THE ENGLISH & other less melaninated human beings enslaved- AFRICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN AND SURPRISE, SURPRISE, the I.R.I.S.H A-R-E all this world needs to know about the treacherous & seditious confederacy because it's LITERALLY written on our faces & in our bodies! Did I mention the f*cking fact that your family WAS NOT HERE WHEN THAT MONSTROSITY, confederacy splashed the blood of their AMERICAN brothers on soil already defiled by the blood of the Nations who were here when Columbus "DISCOVERED" a continent already laden by 150 MILLION PEOPLE!
THIRDLY, outside of the obviously soulless failures, ben carson, herman cain, (deserves what he's going through, AFAIC), the 2 mammies, rhinestone & burlap & the other thousand black folks who are inarguably insane.what black folks are cheerleading for your incontinent, incompetent, demented ass WITHOUT taking coin? & oh yeah, we don't need you to whitesplain anyting to us, let alone the FACT that you don't know SH!T ABOUT ANYTHING. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND prepare for the 'ish you've so RICHLY deserved.
electric_blue68
(15,012 posts)to get serious relaxation after a righteous rant because you want to (since I don't know your age) be alive and cogent when they drag that MF out of the WH!
usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)maybe he would be satisfied with a mass grave site named after him? otherwise he is going to have to settle for that trump baby balloon
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)so better to keep these statues meant to honor those who fought as traitors of the US for their right to keep slaves.
Martin Eden
(12,885 posts)That might have prevented him from "going back" to TRE45ON.