Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is getting blowback for her recent remarks at a left-wing Netroots Nation event where she said the United States criminal justice system is racist.
“Let’s just start with the hard truth about our criminal justice system,” Warren said at an event on Friday hosted by Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond at Dillard University in New Orleans. “It’s racist. It is.”
“And when I say our system, I mean all the way,” Warren said. “I mean front to back.”
“We’re talking about the front end on what you declare to be illegal; on how you enforce it, on who gets arrested,” Warren said.
On Sunday the Boston Herald published an editorial titled “Liz Warren keeps playing the blame game.”
The Herald wrote:
This comes on the heels of Sen. Warren’s call to abolish ICE a little more than a month ago. Then, like Friday, her rhetoric would reach the media’s standards of a “dark” speech if they used that barometer on anyone else but President Trump.
“President Trump seems to think that the only way to have immigration rule is to rip parents from their family, is to treat rape victims and refugees like terrorists and to put children in cages,” she said on City Hall Plaza in June. “This is ugly and this is wrong and this is not the way to run our country.”
“Now she is all in on the criminal justice system of the dastardly United States,” the Herald wrote.
“They shackle pregnant women. What kind of a country does this to people?” Warren said on Friday. “Our prison system is something that America should be ashamed of. What we do to other human beings is fundamentally wrong.”
The Herald pointed out that Warren has also trashed the president’s latest Supreme Court justice nominee, Brett Kavanuagh, calling his list of potential jurors a compilation made by “right-wing extremist groups” — the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.
According to Warren, the Herald wrote, the country is in dire straits.
“Democracy has its back against the wall,” Warren said. “The dark money. The rich and the powerful. The folks who think they can hold our country by the throat.”
“The folks who think that we are here just to continue to produce more and more profits for them,” Warren said.
The Herald continued:
Is there any hard-working American who Elizabeth Warren has not condemned? Starting with business owners, “You didn’t build that,” to everyone involved in the criminal justice system at every level, “racist,” she almost always defaults to excoriating group A for the failures of group B rather than coming up with practical solutions.
The “great American family,” the Herald concluded, is under attack by Warren and the Democrats.
And on Monday, Republican candidate Beth Lindstrom, who hopes to take Warren’s Senate seat, called on her to apologize.
“Sen. Warren needs to apologize to every police officer, judge, corrections department employee, probation worker and the many other honest and decent people in our criminal justice system who have been smeared by her alienating and careless rhetoric,” Lindstrom said in a statement, the Washington Times reported.
“Words like this are polarizing and divisive: completely used for personal political gain for 2020, without regard for how they sound to the many good people in Massachusetts and around the country who are punishing criminals, keeping us safe and administering justice,” Lindstrom said.
“Others pointed out that until recently, the Justice Department was headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who succeeded Eric Holder during the Obama administration,” the Times reported. “Both are black.”
source: breitbart.com
The only difference between Obama, Clinton and Clinton, and wannage Warren is that Warren may actually get into office.
What is more racist, calling someone black, or dark, because they are? Or claiming that you are a Native American and deserve to get a college degree based on your ethnicity, which you refuse to prove by a simple DNA test?
It may not be understood by everyone in America today, that genetics is the reason that very few people believe that a green eyed, blonde, woman could be Native American. And that is based totally on genetics and the dominant or recessive characteristics in every human in the world.
She has already ruled out talking with anyone in her family, old enough to know some thing about her genetic background, because the person she claims told her that she was of Native American heritage, happens to be dead. Convenient for Ms. Warren? You bet it is, because the dominant color of the eyes of Native Americans of any kind, is Black, or Dark Brown. This is not an issue of perjorative racial profiling, it is a fact of genetics. And the closer one is to being within the genetics of Native Americans, the more likely that the genetics would be the cause, NOT GREEN/HAZEL/BLUE!!!
And that doesn’t even come close to the truth, because there are enough Native Americans, that if just ONE TURNED UP WHITE WITH GREEN EYES AND WITH BLONDE HAIR, IT WOULD BE A GENETIC MIRACLE.
So, by simply saying she is of Native American Ethnicity, just doesn’t follow what we know is the case that genetics plays a role in, far more than any “family history story”, by someone long dead, so no facts are in Ms. Warren’s claims either.
In addition, it is NOT racism, to point out the statistics of criminal behaviors of any ethnicity. The facts are really against any claim of racial profiling, or racism, at least when it comes to the data collected on black crimes committed on black people. 98% of black men who are killed, are killed by other black men.
I would definitely be the first in line, to believe that the sentences are probably worse, but then the jury doesn’t set the time length of the sentence, the Judge does in most cases.
Prior to 1964, I feel that the Southern States were just looking for a reason to put any black person in jail, for anything at all. But strangers in town, or city (White or otherwise) were also improperly arrested, tried and sentenced by Democratic Judges and Jurors, of which NONE were Black)
And because for more than a hundred years after the Civil War, the Southern States were predominantly Democratic, if not totally Democratic, so were the leaders of the Southern Civil War. The Northern States, were heavily abolitionists.
Yeah, well as a congressman, she is part of that system.