Originally Posted by Guest

Gracie...I know you have me on ignore. Certainly your right to do that. I remember back a number of years you and I agreed that hearing the other side was one of the assets of the political forum. BUT time does change people. You ignore me and a few others for providing facts and still read the obscene, filthy posts of others.

Point is, you say you never heard of the disgusting race generated demonstrations, well I know for a fact they were not covered much by Fox, and your extremist alt right friends in here discount them.

I opposed, as you know, loudly as Bucco, OBama POLICIES, and never ever got personal or racial. I was a Republican...we didn't do that..recall that ?

I left your Republican Party, because it IS NOW openly controlled by extremists who are white nationalists. You are one now. I left...not my style.

You can say you never heard about it. I say that is crap because I recal questioning on the political forum, the extreme hate messages by the Tea Party. As much as I opposed OBama, the current Republican Party has wrapped themselves on total fake patriotism, and you went to the extreme with them.

Someday, you should open your mind to other ideas, but extremists don't really do that, do they ?


"According to conservatives on social media, “Republicans have jobs and responsibilities” and therefore couldn’t engage in civil disobedience to voice their discontent with the 2008 and 2012 elections. With this perception of the Obama elections and subsequent claims of “ Republican acceptance,” Trump supporters are now demanding the same “fairness” for demanding the same “fairness” for Donald J. Trump’s presidency, “We sat through do nothing politics for 8 years, the least they can do is go shut up and sit in the corner for 8 themselves,” on Trump supporter explained

However, these perceptions do not reflect what actually followed the election of our country’s first black president, much less the difference between why people are protesting Donald J. Trump’s presidency as compared to Barack Obama’s presidency.

Obama’s election in 2008 was preceded and followed by violent attacks and property destruction targeted against minorities.

Kaylon Johnson, an African American campaign worker for Obama, was physically assaulted for wearing an Obama T-shirt in Louisiana following the 2008 election. The three white male attackers shouted “**** Obama!” and “Nigger president!” as they broke Johnson’s nose and fractured his eye-socket, requiring surgery.

More frequently, Obama’s presidency was marked by effigies of our first black president hanging from nooses across the country, for example in Kentucky, Washington State, and Maine, or being burned around the world. What Trump supporters fail to remember is that following Obama’s election, property was destroyed across the country, for example in Pennsylvania, Texas, and North Carolina, and a predominately black church was torched in Massachusetts.

In 2008, anti-Obama protesters lashed out against minorities because of their discontentment with a black man being voted into the office of president for the first time in our nation’s history. Conversely, in 2016, anti-Trump protesters are holding mostly peaceful demonstrations because of their discontentment with a man, who has ostracized minorities, being voted into the office of president.

And while anti-Trump protesters have engaged in mostly peaceful demonstrations against the president-elect, pro-Trump supporters have been responsible for a wave of attacks against Muslims, Latinos, blacks, and the LGBT community.

Conservatives forget history in discrediting Trump protesters | TheHill