Lindsey Graham Says There's 'No' Systemic Racism In U.S., Citing Kamala Harris As VP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said systemic racism doesn’t exist in the United States, pointing to the elections of former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris to back up his claim.

During Graham’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace played a clip of President Joe Biden stating Tuesday that the country needs to confront systemic racism “head on” after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd.

“Is there systemic racism in this country in policing and in other institutions?” Wallace asked Graham.

“No, not in my opinion,” Graham said. “We just elected a two-term African American president. The vice president is of African-American-Indian descent. So our systems are not racist. America is not a racist country. Within every society, you have bad actors.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/lindsey-graham-no-systemic-racism-171758908.html

I remember a lot of GOP dumbasses said racism was over after Obama was elected. Unfortunately this brought a lot of racists out of the woodwork.

[doc03]

1. Not for 80 million of us but the other 74 million

pretty much. If you talk to any Trump voter I guarantee they will steer it to race within a minute or two.

[Claire Oh Nette]

5. 3...2...1... Actual twitter thread

Me: Why don't you think DC should have statehood? Taxation without representation.

RWer: "They" don't have to live there. They know it's not a state. They can move if they don't like it.

me: But, they were born there. Generations of family live there.

RWer: They can give the land back to the states it came from.

me: The Iroquois? The Cherokee?

RWer: Oh, now I massacred Indians? Well, what about the economy? Thy don't have any construction and mining, no working class....

me: No, but none of the US is "our land." Black people aren't working class? Don't they work? Plenty of administrative, hospitality, retail, restaurant, and bureaucratic jobs, though...

RWer: Well, what about the Constitution? The founding fathers never wanted DC to be a state. It's in the Constitution...

Me: The founding fathers didn't want women to vote either.

RWer: stop calling me a racist.

[Penn Voter]

10. I thought Trump's towel boy

once said that Trump was a racist. Well Lindsey, then it follows that the United States elected a racist president in 2016

[Collimator]

2. Gaslighting.

Don't believe your own lived experience. What you see and hear in the world around you isn't real. Instead, take the word of a little toady who goes from one position (Donald Trump is dangerous) to its opposite (Donald Trump is our Savior) with barely a twitch of its bulging eyes.

I would not take Lindsey Graham's word if he told me that water is wet.

[Claire Oh Nette]

3. WHitesplianing

“No, not in my opinion,” Graham said. “We just elected a two-term African American president. The vice president is of African-American-Indian descent. So our systems are not racist. America is not a racist country. Within every society, you have bad actors.”

Well, if you wan't to know about systemic racism, you should ask the Out of Touch, Closeted, White Southern conservative who once said there's no place for Black people in SC unless they are Conservative for his honest opinion. WHo would know better?

"just elected?" No, that was 13 and 9 years ago. He was everything the average well rounded working class guy isn't--educated, articulate, well informed, funny, fit, successful, beloved, still with wife #1. He blew the "lowest white is better than best Black" thing right off the map. They have to recognize their own failure to launch, but they don't.

The giveaway: Once Biden chose Harris as his VP, the right immediately began with "He won't last the first year, and they will install Kamala Harris as President.

"The horror--not just a woman, it was bad enough we almost got Hilary! But now, a Black woman! No one's gonna tell me what to do, certainly to a Black guy, certainly not a woman, and no way in hell a black woman...."

Vestiges of a patriarchal, authoritarian view that enshrined Black slavery into law and denied women the right to vote.

Nope, no systemic racism at all. The 3/5th compromise is in the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy Black people weren't people, per se, and it took Brown v. Board to begin to bring equality of opportunity to Black schools.

He knows it's bullshit. He knows know one believes him, except the hard core racists, ie the republican base.

[tulipsandroses]

4. While you are at it, throw in that we let Oprah and Lebron become rich

The usual Bullshit.

[rickyhall]

6. Lindsey Graham is definitely a bad actor. Lots of rotten tomatos.

[multigraincracker]

7. There must be some in the South.

Most of the Bible Belt States voted against Harris and Obama. Thanks for pointing it out Lindsey.

[Hekate]

8. Tsk. We all know racism ended when Barack Obama became POTUS....

Sure it did.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. One person does not make a trend.

Only Anglos think that one minority that got through a bottleneck is a sign that racism is over. As long as the bottleneck exist, the struggle continues.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

11. Intentional Ignorance SHOULD disqualify you from your job.

It's not like you work for the taxpayers, oh wait you totally do.

[spanone]

12. Who?

OH, FUCK HIM

[Mad_Machine76]

13. That's just stupid

It's significant that we are electing African-Americans to the highest offices (219 years into the history of our country) in the land now but it certainly doesn't prove anything about the existence (or lack thereof) of systemic racism. I would ask if he were paying attention to the kind of attacks President Obama (and even Kamala Harris endured to a lesser extent) while in office, but then again, he was part of the party causing all of the problems and making those attacks.

[Brother Buzz]

14. A subjugator never, ever, gets to determine who is, or isn't being subjugated

This isn't rocket surgery

[alphafemale]

15. From the mouth of a reasonably kind man still too terrified

to admit he is gay.