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(CNN)Vice President Mike Pence declined to say the words "Black lives matter" during an interview with an ABC affiliate in Pennsylvania on Friday, instead saying that "all lives matter."
"Let me just say that what happened to George Floyd was a tragedy," Pence told 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia when asked directly if he would say that Black lives matter. "And in this nation, especially on Juneteenth, we celebrate the fact that from the founding of this nation we've cherished the ideal that all, all of us are created equal, and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. And so all lives matter in a very real sense."
Juneteenth, however, commemorates the end of slavery in America, which happened nearly a century after the nation's founding.
The distinction between saying "Black lives matter" and "all lives matter" has emerged as something of a cultural dividing line amid the nationwide discussion about racial equality that has been touched off in recent weeks. The phrase "Black lives matter" has gained widespread use in recent years as a way to draw attention specifically to deadly encounters between Black Americans and police.
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Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)Bet Pence still would weasel out of it.
handmade34
(22,755 posts)it is "Black Lives Matter" and that is all... he is a fraud
spanone
(135,636 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)When he says yes, then they should ask why he can't say yes to the black lives matter question.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)The Confederacy lost the war - white supremacists won the peace. We will have no more of this.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)All white men, maybe...all of us? Nah, bro and whitewashing are history will not change that fact. The confederates truly believed that they were the legitimate standard bearers of "all men are created equal", because they interpreted that to mean: ALL WHITE MEN. Give me a fucking break with this folksy bullshit spin.
Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)Instead of his preferred "Democrat Party".
He absolutely refused, seemed very uncomfortable about it, almost panicky. He couldn't break from his hate radio orthodoxy for even one second.
So I called him a "sheeple".
musclecar6
(1,681 posts)Believe all men AND women are created equal. Republicans believe all white men are created equal. All other races and women should walk ten paces behind.