Graham after Chauvin verdict: 'America is not a racist country'

[DonViejo]

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 04/25/21 09:51 AM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that the U.S. was not a racist country but faced racism in the form of "bad actors" following the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.

During an interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," Graham explained that in his view, the U.S. was not a racist country and did not have racist "systems," but did face continuing challenges from some Americans who hold racist beliefs.

"No, in my opinion...our systems are not racist," America is not a racist country," Graham told Wallace.

"This attack on police and policing...reform the police yes, call them all racists no," he continued.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Graham is both a liar and an idiot, so...

[dalton99a]

3. He's also a racist

Sen. Graham and Joe Biggs, a leader of the white nationalist group Proud Boys

[Solly Mack]

4. Yes, he is.

[dalton99a]

2. Goddamn liar

[Irish_Dem]

5. The police tortured, slow killed a black man in cold blood while they knew they were being filmed.

Showing no concern or worry in the least.

How is that not racist.

[abqtommy]

6. I think Lindsey "Cracker" Graham is partly right since I prefer to use the words "ethnic

bigotry/bigot" since there's only one race and that is The Human Race. But Lil' Lindseed
sure has got a lot of that ethnic bigotry up under his grille. Or "racism", if you prefer that.
I don't want people to think I'm hard to get along with!

[Thomas Hurt]

7. More christofascist propaganda. Of course "America" isn't racist, but it is riddled with racists...

The police, the courts, legal system are not racist in of themselves, but the racists in the system use it to promote their racist agendas and absolutely refuse to take steps to reform the system to remove the racist influences.

The system as it is maintains the white privilege and that suits the christofascist supremacists just fine.

[Claire Oh Nette]

11. Except we did sort of write human bondage into our whole founding documents and all

The Constitution enshrined slavery. Of Black people.

It's right there, in the 3/5 clause and in the whole discussion of the slave trade. Free men as opposed to enslaved men.

They carry on about their "freedom" while not recognizing they're not enslaved, nor are their children, by accident of birth and color of skin.

Mason Dixon Line.
Colonial "Militias" and the Slave Patrols
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Laws
Compromise of 1850
Popular sovereignty
The Civil fecking War, which these beer belly, bald headed, bad bearded, middle aged video gamers think will be like call of duty.
Plessey v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws and Confederate statues in Michigan and Ohio, ffs.
Lynchings
Brown v. Board of Ed.
Jackie Robinson
Whites Only Water Fountains
The Civil Rights movement
fire hoses and dogs
Voting Rights Act
Augusta ( who has Black and female members.)

No, Linsey, we're not a racist country at all.

[msfiddlestix]

8. And Lindsey Graham isn't really a sorry ass, blubbering alcoholic, unprincipled boot licking ass.

he just plays one on tv.

[StarfishSaver]

9. How is this any different than what some people have been saying on this board?

[struggle4progress]

10. "Watch me speak out of both sides of my wazoo!"

[ck4829]

12. 46% of Republicans think Chauvin verdict was wrong

They must have a good reason why they are so far misaligned with the rest of the country.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215372553