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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump thinks only dead black men deserve pardons, but shouldn't they also actually be felons?
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Trump thinks only dead black men deserve pardons, but shouldn't they also actually be felons? (Original Post)
EffieBlack
Jun 2018
OP
I'm awaiting Trump's pardon of Sirhan Sirhan because it was only a "Kennedy" that got assassinated
Submariner
Jun 2018
#3
He's too clueless to understand that Ali was as vilified then as the NFL players are now
EffieBlack
Jun 2018
#5
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)1. It is telling, isn't it?
Waiting for someone in Ali's family to take this idiot to school.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)2. Dumbass
Submariner
(12,503 posts)3. I'm awaiting Trump's pardon of Sirhan Sirhan because it was only a "Kennedy" that got assassinated
and RFK was just a candidate not actually president. He will try and pull this one off just as he exits office just to bust everybody's balls.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)7. Or James Earl Ray.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)4. Notice how he IMMEDIATELY followed up his pardon commentary with
another attack on NFL players that took a knee during the national anthem.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)5. He's too clueless to understand that Ali was as vilified then as the NFL players are now
Funny how that arc of the moral universe/right side of history thing plays out, isnt it?
dawg day
(7,947 posts)6. I doubt Ali's family would be very interested in this
Ali took a stand on principle, and had a right to be proud of what he did at a great cost to his own career.