What makes a great politician?

[David Lockmiller]

(01-13-2018 03:09 AM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  The word that President Trump allegedly spoke the other day, does not bother me. It was just a word, crude but accurate.

It would appear that you are in good company!

“Trump’s vulgarity: Overt racism or a president who says what many think?”

Washington Post - By Jenna Johnson, Vanessa Williams and Marc Fisher
January 12 at 7:00 PM

Right-wing extremists and white supremacists welcomed Trump’s comment. Former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana legislator David Duke said on Twitter that the president “restores a lot of love in us by saying blunt but truthful things that no other President in our lifetime would dare say!”

Contrast this with the actions of another President in our lifetime, John F. Kennedy:

In late September, 1962, the administration of President John F. Kennedy had extensive discussions with Governor Barnett and his staff about protecting Meredith, but Barnett publicly vowed to keep the university segregated.

The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi (known affectionately as Ole Miss) at Oxford, Mississippi. Two civilians were killed during the night, including a French journalist, and over 300 people were injured, including one third of the US Marshals deployed.

When you watch all of these South East Conference football games now on most Fall Saturday's, the vast majority of people sitting in the stands are white and the vast majority of players on the football field are black, including a number of black quarterbacks.