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The Democratic vice-mayor of Charlottesville has publicly said he hates white people. Racism goes both ways and some people in both parties are guilty of it.

zimpenfish 9y ago
Whilst I can't defend him saying that, I will point out that it happened in 2009 and it's possible his opinions have changed since. (Also mildly amusing that the person highlighting these tweets was one "Jason Kessler", a local Charlottesville bloggerm and now presumably the same one enjoying worldwide fame for organising a Nazi-themed march which left someone dead.)
- leereeves 9y ago
  > the person highlighting these tweets was one "Jason Kessler" I saw it on CNN's website, where Bellamy said he'd grown since 2011 (that's the year he mentioned). http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/13/charlottesville-virginia-vice-mayor-racist-tweets-protests-newday-weekend.cnn http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/13/charlottesville-virg...
  - zimpenfish 9y ago
    Yeah, he did say plenty of stupid things 2009-12 but the "I hate white people" was 2009. Not that I'm giving him a pass for any of this - they were legitimately dumbass idiot things to say anywhere, much less in public.
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eli_gottlieb 9y ago
>The Democratic vice-mayor of Charlottesville has publicly said he hates white people. Ok. How many white people have been beaten by police under his vile, racist vice-regime? Oh. Zero, you say? How many white people have had guns pointed at them by Black Panthers under his vile, racist vice-regime? Oh. Zero, you say? Then I think there's a difference. One side says mean things on Twitter, the other side infiltrates police departments and burns down churches.
- leereeves 9y ago
  Zero, I did not say. According to the ACLU and ABC, police allowed the violence at the march to happen. > [ACLU Tweet:] Clash between protesters and counter protesters. Police says "We'll not intervene until given command to do so." > Video replayed over the weekend on cable news and social media appears to show long brawls between protesters and counter-protesters that went uninterrupted by police. http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-face-criticism-eruptions-violence-charlottesville/story?id=49192837 http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-face-criticism-eruptions-vio...
- TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
  Fighting racism with racism will just make the racists even more racist.
js2 9y ago
He has since apologized for and disavowed those tweets. He wrote them before he was in public office: “I sincerely apologize for the inappropriate things I posted to social media many years ago,” Bellamy said in his Facebook post. “Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and while I was not in office at the time, in this instance I came up short of the man I aspire to be.” He attributed the tweets to an immature phase of his life. “At the time of the tweets that I saw posted on the website, I was a young man in my early 20s living outside the Deep South for the first time,” Bellamy said. “In the course of trying to mature and find my way I came to some false conclusions about the world around me and made them known.” http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/11/wes-bellamy-charlottesville-twitter http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/11/wes-bellamy-cha...

zimpenfish 9y ago

Whilst I can't defend him saying that, I will point out that it happened in 2009 and it's possible his opinions have changed since. (Also mildly amusing that the person highlighting these tweets was one "Jason Kessler", a local Charlottesville bloggerm and now presumably the same one enjoying worldwide fame for organising a Nazi-themed march which left someone dead.)

leereeves 9y ago
> the person highlighting these tweets was one "Jason Kessler" I saw it on CNN's website, where Bellamy said he'd grown since 2011 (that's the year he mentioned). http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/13/charlottesville-virginia-vice-mayor-racist-tweets-protests-newday-weekend.cnn http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/13/charlottesville-virg...
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  Yeah, he did say plenty of stupid things 2009-12 but the "I hate white people" was 2009. Not that I'm giving him a pass for any of this - they were legitimately dumbass idiot things to say anywhere, much less in public.

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eli_gottlieb 9y ago

>The Democratic vice-mayor of Charlottesville has publicly said he hates white people. Ok. How many white people have been beaten by police under his vile, racist vice-regime? Oh. Zero, you say? How many white people have had guns pointed at them by Black Panthers under his vile, racist vice-regime? Oh. Zero, you say? Then I think there's a difference. One side says mean things on Twitter, the other side infiltrates police departments and burns down churches.

leereeves 9y ago
Zero, I did not say. According to the ACLU and ABC, police allowed the violence at the march to happen. > [ACLU Tweet:] Clash between protesters and counter protesters. Police says "We'll not intervene until given command to do so." > Video replayed over the weekend on cable news and social media appears to show long brawls between protesters and counter-protesters that went uninterrupted by police. http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-face-criticism-eruptions-violence-charlottesville/story?id=49192837 http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-face-criticism-eruptions-vio...
TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
Fighting racism with racism will just make the racists even more racist.

js2 9y ago

He has since apologized for and disavowed those tweets. He wrote them before he was in public office: “I sincerely apologize for the inappropriate things I posted to social media many years ago,” Bellamy said in his Facebook post. “Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and while I was not in office at the time, in this instance I came up short of the man I aspire to be.” He attributed the tweets to an immature phase of his life. “At the time of the tweets that I saw posted on the website, I was a young man in my early 20s living outside the Deep South for the first time,” Bellamy said. “In the course of trying to mature and find my way I came to some false conclusions about the world around me and made them known.” http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/11/wes-bellamy-charlottesville-twitter http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/11/wes-bellamy-cha...