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Home Front: Culture Wars
Roland Martin to John Kelly: ‘Shame on You,' Too Many White People in This Country ‘Don't Know History'
2017-11-01
Too many people in this country don't know history. Americans, in general, prefer to think about the future.
[Breitbart] Tuesday on MSNBC "Velshi & Ruhle," discussing White House chief of staff John Kelly’s comments on Fox News about Confederate monuments, host of "News One Now" Roland Martin said "too many people in this country who are white" didn’t know history and wanted to "somehow glorify these Confederate leaders."

Martin said, "I’m not going to allow four stars stuck on stupid to simply go on. Here’s a man who’s utterly clueless. For him to say, ’Well, we could have compromised’‐really? We did compromise. It was a thing called United States Constitution, and you know what that said? If you’re a black, you’re three-fifths of a human."
Pathetic, but typical of those who don't know history.
He continued, "I need John Kelly to actually go back and read a history book that my 12-year-old nieces are reading right now, because clearly, he fell asleep in history."
One hopes they will read all the chapters, rather than fixating on a single highlight box as their uncle did.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Why am I thinking reconstruction?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-11-01 19:28  

#11  A white guy who said this about blacks would have been fired minutes after the statement. That's what black privilege is all about - impunity.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2017-11-01 18:34  

#10  Didn't know Laugh-in got a reboot.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-11-01 17:49  

#9  Too many white people put up with this kind of racist screed ....
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-11-01 16:30  

#8  Let me guess, Mr. Martin votes Democrat (party of slavery, KKK and Jim Crow laws) because he "knows" the Republicans (party of emancipation and anti-slavery) is going to force him back into "slavery" (take away his victimhood).
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-11-01 11:22  

#7  I suggest Roland travel to the slave coast of W. Africa and learn the real history of slavery. I lived there for 2 years and certain tribes STILL blame other tribes for capturing and selling them.

John Kelly's pinky toe knows more history than Roland will eve know.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2017-11-01 10:30  

#6  So many ignorant people misunderstand the 3/5s Compromise. Counting slaves as 3/5 of a person reduced the voting power of the slave states and left the voting power of the slaves (none) unchanged.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-11-01 10:05  

#5  read a history book that my 12-year-old nieces are reading


Chomsky and Zinn? Those aren't history books. They're just anti-American/Western Civ propaganda.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-11-01 09:27  

#4  People in this country don't know history, or know the distorted version of history.

All by design.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-11-01 09:25  

#3  Sad to say, too many lefties watch MSNBC and take this putrid dribble as the gospel.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-01 08:55  

#2  Martin wouldn't make a good bump on the arse of Kelly.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-11-01 07:19  

#1  msnbc is at the end of the sewer attached to the devils excrement.

Nothing there is redeemable.
Posted by: newc   2017-11-01 07:12  

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