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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Did Obama Try to Compare Trump to Democratic Party Segregationists? | Larry Elder
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Did former President Barack Obama just compare President Trump to Bull Connor, the former Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama?
Bull Connor may be gone.
But today, we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of black Americans.
You mean this Bull Connor?
You can never whip these bulls.
If you don't keep you and them separate.
I found that out in Birmingham.
You've got to keep the white and the black separate!
Obama compared Trump to Bull Connor?
Trump?
A man who signed the First Step Act?
That so far has allowed some 3,000 mostly black men busted for crack cocaine to have their sentences reconsidered.
2,000 of them have been released?
This young man is a beneficiary.
52-year-old Matthew Charles walked to the White House today a changed man.
It feels remarkable.
He was once a so-called career offender.
In 1996, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison for selling crack cocaine.
After leaving the military in 1987, I became a lawless person.
And it wasn't until my incarceration in 1996 that the transformation began.
That transformation, over 21 years behind bars, earned him an early release in 2016.
His lawyers successfully argued that his sentence was unfair and that he'd changed.
He started over in Nashville, where he worked in a food pantry and met his girlfriend.
But freedom was short-lived when an appeals court reversed his early release and ordered him back to prison.
It was a gut shot.
It was like a bitter pill.
In December, President Trump signed the First Step Act.
It eased mandatory minimum drug sentences and led to Charles' release from prison again.
Even CNN's Van Jones praised the act.
And a big victory for President Trump as he signed the criminal justice reform bill.
As you see right here, the new law allows federal inmates to leave prison earlier with good behavior credits, and it also eases guidelines on mandatory sentences.
The bill bringing together those on all sides of the political spectrum for a rare moment of bipartisanship in the Oval Office.
In the process of this, this has brought together friendships that I'll cherish for the rest of my life.
I'm now texting buddies with Van Jones.
And when you're trying to help people on the bottom, sir, I will work with or against any Democrat, with or against any Republican, because there is nothing more important than freedom.
So thank you, sir.
Does Obama think that Bull Connor would have reconsidered the sentences of 3,000 black men?
Does Obama think that Bull Connor would have pardoned the first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson?
Now, we all sort of have heard of Jack Johnson, had a very tough life and an interesting life, one of the greatest fighters, Lennox was just telling me, one of the greatest fighters ever, the early 1900s.
Today, as president, I've issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, posthumously, to John Arthur Jack Johnson.
He was known as Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion of the world, a truly great fighter, had a tough life, They say he violated the Mann Act and he had a conviction that occurred during a period of tremendous racial tension in the United States more than a century ago.
Johnson served 10 months in federal prison for what many view as a racially motivated injustice.
He was treated very rough, very tough.
Next, Obama compared Trump to George Wallace.
George Wallace may be gone.
But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.
Now, like Bull Connor, Wallace was a Democrat.
Surely you recall that, don't you?
But some people somehow think that George Wallace was a Republican and Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.
I agree with Bernie.
I'm disappointed to read about it, but at the same time, you know, we do have the worst Republican nominee since George Wallace.
What?
George Wallace was a Republican?
Now that was Keith Ellison, the former deputy chair of the DNC, making that assertion.
And sitting right next to him, George Clintonopolis, excuse me, Stepanopolis, the former campaign aide to Bill Clinton, now chief news anchor for ABC News.
And when Ellison made that blunder, Mr.
Stepanopolis corrected him.
Right?
Fortunately, a Republican Oklahoma congressman, Tom Cole, was there.
I agree with Bernie.
I'm disappointed to read about it.
But at the same time, you know, we do have the worst Republican nominee since George Wallace.
We have somebody who is so dangerous in a number of ways.
Not the least of which is his attacks on the press and his pulling press credentials.
The First Amendment says freedom of the press.
He attacks the press regularly.
So I'm really kind of focused on the job at hand.
But I am disappointed.
But I'm not surprised.
But at the same time, you know, I just have to keep trudging on, organizing people to turn out the maximum number of votes to defeat Donald Trump.
Just the beginning here in Philadelphia, Congressman Cole, you just came from Cleveland Republican Convention.
Was it a success?
Well, first I want to correct my friend.
George Wallace was a proud Democrat and ran for the Democratic nomination.
He was on that stage down there a couple of times.
Thank God he got rejected and lost.
Well, that's fine.
But let's be clear on the record of whose party he belonged to.
Yeah, that George Wallace.
In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. - - So Obama is comparing Trump to a man who sought to deny blacks the right to an education
Meanwhile, Trump supports school choice so blacks can get a superior education.
We're fighting for school choice, which really is the civil rights of All time in this country.
Frankly, school choice is the civil rights statement of the year, of the decade, and probably beyond.
Because all children have to have access to quality education.
A child's zip code in America should never determine their future.
And that's what was happening.
Now George Wallace eventually apologized for his racism.
More on that in just a second.
But 10 years after Wallace gave that famous segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever speech, guess who saluted him at a festival on his behalf?
All of you know Governor Wallace and I have different opinions on some important issues.
And there are many in the Democratic Party and across this country who disagree with both of us.
But we have one thing in common.
We don't corrupt.
We don't malign.
We don't abuse the trust which the people have given us.
We don't compile lists of enemies whose careers and lives are to be shattered because of their disagreement.
We don't use the tactics of a criminal or the power of the law to silence those whose ideas or politics are different than our own.
For if there's one thing that George Wallace stands for, it is the right of every American to speak his mind and be heard, fearlessly and in any part of this country.
Liberal Ted Kennedy, the civil rights icon?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr., was not exactly pleased with Mr. Kennedy.
Kennedy's appearance.
Here's what the New York Times said about it.
The SCLC conference today formally denounced Senator Kennedy's participation, called it the height of political opportunism.
And the SCLC strongly worded resolution said that his appearance came at a time when the crisis in our nation demands electoral leadership uncompromising with racism, political statism, and mob rule.
And it noted more churches and houses have been burned and bombed during the administration of George C. Wallace than in the history of the state." Now, as mentioned, Wallace repented.
But that was long after Kennedy slobbered all over him.
And yet when Kennedy died, he was hailed as the Lion of the Senate, the conscience of the Senate.
As for Wallace, Wallace appeared unannounced at the church where MLK Sr.
and MLK Jr.
pastor, the Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery, Alabama, appeared unannounced, was wheeled to the podium where he asked to speak to the congregation.
And this is what he said.
I never had hate in my heart for any person, but I regret my support of segregation and the pain it caused the black people of our state and the nation.
I've learned what pain is, and I'm sorry if I cause anybody else pain.
Segregation was wrong, and I am sorry.
End of quote.
This makes it particularly odd that Obama would compare Trump to Wallace.
After Wallace apologized in 1979, six years after Kennedy flattered him, He apologized again and again and again.
This is from a 1995 article from the Washington Post.
In 1982, Wallace expressed the same sentiment before the SCLC, apologized during a TV interview.
In 87, he reconciled and prayed with Jesse Jackson.
His last term in governor hired a black press secretary, appointed more than 160 blacks to state governing boards.
Double the number of black voter registrars in Alabama's 67 counties.
In his last race for governor, he won with 60% of the vote and well over 90% of the black vote.
Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, gave him an honorary degree, end of quote.
Now, do you know who has not renounced his racist, anti-white, anti-Semitic past?
The white man, by nature, is the devil.
So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater.
You know what they do.
Call me an anti-Semite.
Stop it!
I'm anti-termite.
Now, why is any of this relevant?
Well, consider this 2005 photograph of a smiling young Senator Barack Obama standing next to a smiling Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Now, this photograph did not see the light of day until 2018, after President Obama had completed his second term.
And the photographer who took the photograph admitted he sat on it because he did not want to compromise Obama's chances of winning election.
How incendiary?
Well, consider what Alan Dershowitz, who publicly supported Barack Obama, said after he found out about the picture.
Quote, Louis Farrakhan is a virulent anti-Semite.
He's called Judaism a gutter religion.
He's anti-American.
He is a horrible, horrible human being.
And if I had known that the president had posed smilingly with Farrakhan when he was a senator, I would not have campaigned for Barack Obama.
It would have influenced my decision.
Look, I threatened to leave the Democratic Party if Keith Ellison were elected as chairman because of his association with Farrakhan.
You don't associate with a bigot.
You don't associate with an anti-Semite." So in summary, former President Obama compared President Trump to two Southern segregationist racists.
Trump, a man who presided over the lowest unemployment for blacks in history.
Trump, a man who signed the First Step Act that allowed 3,000 men mostly convicted of crack cocaine to have their sentences reconsidered.
Trump, who spent more money on historically black colleges than any other president.
Trump, who's spending more money on enterprise zones.
Trump, who's trying to do something about illegal immigration on the grounds that unskilled illegals compete for jobs that would otherwise be held by unskilled black and browns.
And Trump wants to do something about school choice, and he is a racist.
Meanwhile, Obama stands next to Louis Farrakhan, the nation's most notorious anti-Semite, and Al Sharpton, another anti-white anti-Semite, practically had a room at the Obama White House, was there over 70 times.
What am I missing here?
Scotty, beam me up!
Finally, don't forget, Uncle Tom The movie is really doing well.
It debuted on June 19th and is the number one political documentary in the world.
Here's a brief trailer.
I focus on three things.
Belief in God.
Belief in myself.
And my belief in the United States of America.
Being a black conservative is just natural.
It's what my family raises on.
Faith, family, individual responsibility, education, service to the nation, an entrepreneurial mind.
Being a business owner in America is one of the greatest privileges of being an American.
I think black Americans should believe and uphold the ideas of constitutional inherent rights.
I always felt that if I worked hard that I could overcome the circumstances of my life.
I never felt that because I was black or I was poor or a woman that I couldn't do something.
Humans are naturally conservative.
You grow up being told to work hard for what you got.
You don't grow up being told you're going to get something because you just want it.
Like, you ain't got to work for it.
But Democrats, they say, hey, we give you everything for free.
That ain't reality.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
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