Portrait of a Radical
Yesterday Senators grilled Biden DOJ nominee Kristen Clarke. Joe wants her to run the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. For those who have no idea who she may be, here is a brief rundown:
After graduating from Harvard University, she worked as a trial attorney in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. There she served as a federal prosecutor specializing on voting rights, hate crimes and human trafficking cases. Since then she has fought for the left's pet projects. It wasn't until Tucker Carlson revealed a letter Clarke once wrote to the Harvard Crimson that Americans became aware of what she was. It seems that Clarke claimed that Blacks had "superior physical and mental abilities" due to their higher levels of melanin! You think that sounds like a Black Supremacist? It gets better. We have also learned that when she was the leader of Harvard's Black Student Association, she was part of the effort to invite anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist professor Tony Martin as a guest speaker. More recently she has written in support of defunding the police. This is Joe Biden's choice to run the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
What does this tell us about those serving in the DOJ?
To get an idea of what her confirmation hearings are like, here is Senator Mike Lee trying to expose her ideology:
Here is Senator Cruz questioning her on religious liberty:
Finally here she is a few years ago facing Tucker Carlson:
Now we know why democrats want to end the filibuster, federalize police departments, pack the court and open the borders. They want a one party dictatorship in order to forward their radical hate-filled agenda.
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Oh, BTW, For all you suburban moms who voted for Joe Biden: May the riots move right into your neighborhoods.
Trump and his supporters are off topic
I am off topic.
Thanks for the morning laughs ... I look 'forward' to more of the same 'fake fear' squirrel butter.
Speaking of morning laughs, thanks for stopping by.
Yeah, me too!
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I'm sure she will be DAMNED if there is a God.
Tucker Carlson's interview with Kristen Clarke was inadvertently amusing. In it Carlson defends the lack of diversity in the Trump administration's cabinet and other department head appointments as being appointments made solely on merit. . The discussion between Carlson and Clarke was about Ryan Zinke , a Trump appointee to the cabinet (Secretary Of The Interior) who later resigned in disgrace after abuse of his office.
You look for every way, don't you? Thank China.
Thank China for what?
All the shit the country is going through.
I know who is to blame for that and it's not China.
All the shit the country is going through, started getting a little bit better, day by day, starting on 1/20/21
What does China have to do with Trump appointing corrupt white guys to his cabinet and then Tucker Carlson say they were based on merit?
The same thing that Biden making appointments based on skin color, sex, and how far radical left their beliefs are.
Talk about people leaving in disgrace, Eric Holder was held in contempt and would have been a huge target if Obama hadn't replaced him with a quite puppet. The topic here is radicalism and the rule of the woke left.
NT is a microcosm of the society at large. There are very few things off topic here. [Deleted] Four years wasn't enough for you John? You can't discuss the topic anymore?
I'll let our readers decide if things are getting better.
I asked YOU what China has to do with Ryan Zinke. You posted Tucker Carlson's segment with Kristen Clarke. So YOU made it on topic.
About as much as Ryan Zinke has to do with the radicalism of Kristen Clarke.
You posted Tucker Carlson's segment with Kristen Clarke. So YOU made it on topic.
And YOU dug out that portion of the interview because you want to defy my specific limitations on topic. [Deleted]
We are sick of your hate for Trump. What about the racists at DOJ?
"I'll let our readers decide if things are getting better."
How many 'readers' is that?
Yes, he did!
Here's one.
China says "You're welcome. Glad to help out."
I guess there is only one way to show our gratitude, unfortunately Harry Truman ruled it out over 70 years ago.
I'm sure you're aware that China would be bound to return that gratitude should you decide to break Truman's rule.
In 1950, China would have only one choice - surrender. The world would have been a much better place. Truman was wrong. We should have listened to the expert.
Oh wow, one!
LOL!
When do you ever listen to experts?
Instead, if you are talking about MacArthur. Truman fired him!
And then China got nuclear weapons and the world has had to find a way to coexist ever since.
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More right wing hot dog sans the horseradish.
Defund the police? Or just use the funding to better benefit the people who provide the funding? I believe the latter is the better option.
"More right wing hot dog sans the horseradish.
Defund the police? Or just use the funding to better benefit the people who provide the funding? I believe the latter is the better option."
I believe that is what she is promoting.
I'm not disagreeing with you bbl-1.
Throw money at it, I am sure that will make criminals go away./S Or will it just give criminals more incentive to steal better things, and have crime rates increase even more?
Democrats love their worthless pork pet projects.
She is obviously not calling for the "defunding of the police", she called for the defunding of certain police "operations" " that have made African Americans more vulnerable to police violence and contributed to mass incarceration while investing in more programs and policies that address critical community needs".
What exactly would be wrong with a city diverting some funds that had been going to police to mental health professionals who could respond to calls involving mentally unstable persons? Why are the police called to handle someone who is suicidal or domestic disputes? We've had far too many mentally unstable children and young adults killed or injured by police who only know one way to deal with someone being erratic or unstable which is to either shoot them, taser them or throw them to the ground, kneel on their necks or essentially hog tie them like an animal. If police departments had mental health professionals who were able to be the first responders or respond along with an officer and attempt to de-escalate a situation instead of throwing gas on it like many confrontations police have with mentally unstable persons I think we would see a huge drop in fatalities.
" People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a new study released today by the Treatment Advocacy Center."
" Numbering fewer than 1 in 50 U.S. adults, individuals with untreated severe mental illness are involved in at least 1 in 4 and as many as half of all fatal police shootings , the study reports."
Another point is that while black Americans have about the same percentage of mental illness among their population as whites, they are more likely to be untreated due to access or poverty preventing them from being able to meet their health care needs.
" Black and African American people living below poverty are twice as likely to report serious psychological distress than those living over 2x the poverty level. "
With the statistics showing people with untreated mental illness at 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter and black Americans being twice as likely to report a serious psychological distress it's no wonder than many of those fatal police encounters involve black Americans which is why it's so important to fund mental health professionals to respond to those calls and not just what often amounts to "the brute squad" to handle persons with mental illness or psychological distress.
Are you unaware of the current costs incurred to maintain local, state and federal law enforcement? The money has 'been thrown' at law enforcement for decades upon decades.
Your comment is-------not well informed.
The police force almost reminds of teachers and teachers unions.
They are their own force (pun not intended).
How is this woman in government?
anti-Semitism plays well with Democrats, no doubt about it.
It played so well with me that I chose an Orthodox Jew to be my daughter's godfather. @!@
WTF?
When she starts talking about Jewish Space Lasers, get back to us.
I typed this into Bing Search
"a letter Clarke once wrote to the Harvard Crimson that Americans became aware of what she was. It seems that Clarke claimed that Blacks had "superior physical and mental abilities" due to their higher levels of melanin!"
this was the result
a letter Clarke once wrote to the Harvard Crimson that Americans became aware of what she was. It seems that Clarke claimed that Blacks had "superior physical and mental abilities" due to their higher levels of melanin! - Bing
virtually all of these results , at least on the first few pages, are from far right websites, some of them very fringy, and at least two of them are white nationalist or white supremacist sites
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In 1994, Miss Clarke , then president of the Harvard Black Students Association, wrote a letter t
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I looked at Kristen Clarke's wikipedia page, and it is true that she appears to have been quite involved with civil rights causes. I see nothing wrong with that, within reason.
The key portion of the seeded article is the letter Clarke wrote to the Harvard newspaer The Crimson in which she makes statements that appear to be in support of "black supremacy" such as that melanin gives blacks superior mental, physical, and spiritual abilities. Today, I think Clarke would consider that letter to be a big mistake.
However, Clarke's letter claiming black superiority in Nov of 1994 was a retort and "answer" to the (then) new book (written by a former Harvard professor) The Bell Curve, which posited that blacks were of lower intelligence than other races. In other words Clarke was saying "two can play that game" as a means of dismissing The Bell Curve.
Here are relevant passages from a Harvard Crimson editorial at the time
I think Clarke made a big mistake in making racist statements to a student newspaper, even though she had a legitimate purpose in doing so (to ridicule the premise of The Bell Curve) , however, she was 21 years old at the time and has surely learned much since then.
Which is probably why Biden has appointed her to her new position.
Once a racist always a racist. But slap a D behind their name and all will be forgiven by the left.
If you just read the biased report Vic seeded, you don't get the context.
I took the time to find something else about Clarke's letter to the Harvard student newspaper in 1994. It was as a response to people who were praising the then new book The Bell Curve, which was a racist argument that blacks are less intelligent than other races. So Clarke went 180 degrees in the other direction. It is a rhetorical tactic, although obviously in retrospect a foolish one.
Speaking of biased, you have a seed claiming that Tucker Carlson said he "speculates that the vaccine doesn't work" which is an outright LIE. Carlson questioned why Fauci wants people who were vaccinated to proceed as if the vaccine is meaningless, Something Fauci still hasn't answered along with why Texas is doing so well. Last night you told us that democrats announcing plans to pack the court was "ridiculous" simply because The Intercept was first to report it. For four years you posted Trump/Russia conspiracy theories. And you talk of bias?
How is she a racist? Explain Don't include 'leftist brown shirts'
Really? Listen to the answers she gave Senators. I don't hear her saying, I've changed my position. As far as the Bell Curve goes, it was reasonably challenged by the book "Guns, Germs and Steel." A black woman claiming blacks are superior is every bit as racist as you claim the Bell Curve was.
Which is probably why Biden has appointed her to her new position.
She was appointed because Biden's leftist handlers want to change society.
If the letter was" satire" why did she also invite another notorious racist to speak on campus and defend the racist as a "an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information of [sic] indisputable fact."
No one at the time believed it was satire. Here's context:
It's an affront that someone in an academic position should have published a work of racism, even one cloaked in scholarly research. But it's also sad that a Harvard student would think that one race is genetically superior to others. And it is almost inconceivable that this student would be an elected leader of Black students on campus. Nonetheless, this is the situation with which we are confronted.
We searched in vain for a hint of irony in Clarke's letter (which was coauthored with Victoria Kennedy '97, who does not hold any elected position in the BSA). But truth be told, such indications would be irrelevant. In such a circumstance, any irony short of unambiguous sarcasm is unacceptable coming from the pen of a student leader.
I didnt say it was satire, I said it was a tactic to rebut The Bell Curve. I think it was a big mistake on her part at the time, but it does not mean she is racist.
I posted part of that same editorial in one of my earlier comments above.
I didnt say it was satire,
That's what being argued today by Clarke and her surrogates at Vox and MSNBC.
but it does not mean she is racist.
If a Republican defended an author of a book called the "Jewish Onslaught" about how Jewish leaders attack and hold white people down, as someone whose work is based on "indisputable fact" and wrote letters to the editor proclaiming white genetic superiority, you wouldn't be calling the Republican a racist?
I havent seen or read anything else about this and I'm not even sure I have heard of Kristen Clarke before I read Vic's seed this morning.
If Clarke says it was satire then I guess that is what she intended. Either way, the "black supremacy" points were made as a rebuttal to people praising The Bell Curve, according to the Harvard Crimson editorial we both linked to. To remove that context from Clarke's comments in 1994 is just silly.
Spin Spin Spin watch Johnny spin.
Don't forget Clarke dismissing it all as "satire." Vanita Gupta simply lied under oath about her past statements. Can you imagine appointing such people?
Is that all you got?
Not too interested in the truth I guess.
Time to clean up this jaded crap:
Why Tucker Carlson Is Obsessed With Kristen Clarke
well done
She smeared herself. She is a racist.
You are smearing yourself with seeds such as this which whether you like it or not make you the topic. There is no escape other than an act of hypocrisy.
Don't forget to give yourself a vote.
I'll wait until I'm dead and give myself several.
At which time you'll be out of my jurisdiction.
If the world turns as it is wont to that time will not be long, Seed something from Arron Copland in my honor. 'Hoedown' will work.
Ok, I'll keep it in mind.
PRICELESS! THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!
I think defunding the police is an ignorant and in fact dangerous idea. Use more of their financial support for better training, and cull the bigots from the force.
They're not 'defunding the police'.
I have read here ad nauseam that the label 'racist' is meaningless because they allege that everyone on the left claims everyone on the right is 'racist'.
After reading years of RW posts here on NT, I posit that the label 'radical' is now meaningless because the RW claims that everyone on the left is 'radical'.
This is a woman who claimed the author of a book called the "Jewish Onslaught" about Jewish racism towards blacks based his book on "indisputable fact," and shills for Farrahkhan supporters.
Anti-Semitism remains fine and dandy with the left.