Florida: Not a Slave to Truth

July 23, 2023 Buck Banks

When it comes to questions of compensation
Florida is ahead of the rest of the nation.
In case you’ve forgotten,
We taught Blacks how to plant and pick cotton,
So forget reparations, they should pay whites back for their enslaved education.

From Slave to Immigrants

March 7, 2017March 17, 2017 Buck Banks

Ben Carson’s at it again, rewriting black history.
But was this a case of stupidity or sophistry?
He tried to inspire folks at HUD,
But his comments fell flat — with a thud.
And how he transformed slaves into immigrants remains a mystery.

Comparing Abortion to Slavery Is ‘the Holocaust of Analogies’

March 11, 2011March 11, 2011 Jon Ponder

The Daily Show – Deadliest Snatch
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At minute 2:25:

Look … listen … I know these guys want to make a point, but you don’t do it by appropriating the worst thing that happened to other people. Equating anything you don’t like to slavery trivializes centuries of suffering. It’s like the holocaust of analogies.

Tag: Slavery

Florida: Not a Slave to Truth

From Slave to Immigrants

Comparing Abortion to Slavery Is ‘the Holocaust of Analogies’

At minute 2:25:

Look … listen … I know these guys want to make a point, but you don’t do it by appropriating the worst thing that happened to other people. Equating anything you don’t like to slavery trivializes centuries of suffering. It’s like the holocaust of analogies.

— Daily Show Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore reacting to right-wingers comparing abortion to slavery.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I’ve covered Trump’s finances for 8 years and wrote a book about conflicts of interest during his first term. I’ve never seen anything quite like the profiteering that occurred over the last few days.”

— Dan Alexander

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”

— Pope Francis criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace,” CNN reports.

“Welcome home.”

— President Biden, quoted by ABC News, greeting President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.

“After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

— Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was “deeply grateful” to receive a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden Monday, USA Today reports.

“You have a two-seat majority, and you shot one of your members.”

— A House Republican lawmaker, quoted by Politico, on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ousting House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) and making him “an enemy.”

Numerati

$445 million

Big oil spent a stunning $445 million throughout the last election cycle to influence Donald Trump and Congress, The Guardian reports.

58%

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 58% of Americans are not in favor of President Trump pardoning all of the people who were convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol just over four years ago.

24.6 million

$15 trillion

$25 billion