Thursday News Round Up – RFK Jr. Proposes Bold Eight-Point Plan on Civil Rights
“My objective over the next 13 months of this campaign and over the years of my presidency is to figure out the things that unite America.” – RFK Jr.
Kennedy proposes a bold eight-point plan on Civil Rights | Kennedy24. “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. believes that this unacceptable situation is the result of the unhealed legacy of racism in this country. We must take direct action to remedy it—not only for the sake of Black people, but for the wellbeing of the entire nation. He will appeal not to guilt and blame, but to the conscience of Americans of all races who want to repair the wounds of history. Here are some of the policies he will adopt to accomplish it.”
Media coverage of Kennedy’s Civil Rights initiative:
RFK Jr. comes out for reparations, forging lane to Biden’s left | NY Post
RFK Jr. Says He Supports Reparations for Black Community | Outkick
News from the campaign:
“The man’s foremost quality is that he knows what’s going on and he’s truthful about it and I believe that he will keep us out of war,” said Auberger. – Robert Kennedy Jr. campaigns as independent candidate | Spectrum News1
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits Greater Cincinnati on campaign tour | WLWT
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaigns for president in Miami | Miami Herald
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Speech Louisville, Ky Glenmary Farm Oct 16th 2023 | Gertie Music
More Kennedy news:
RFK Jr. Seizes Moment as Record Number of Americans Seek a Third Option | The New York Sun
RFK Jr. Is Very Bad News for Trump’s Election Chances, New Poll Says | The New Republic
RFK Jr. vows to respect Second Amendment and not ‘take away people’s guns’ | The Washington Examiner
President Biden still has not afforded RFK Jr. Secret Service protection:
Cruz demands answers from Mayorkas on denial of Secret Service protection for RFK Jr | Fox News
Cruz says Secret Service should offer RFK Jr. protection | The Hill
And now something completely different: The Suffolk Journal offers two different opinions!
“Due to the lack of support, even in his own family, Kennedy’s chance at winning is small: it’s more likely Biden or Trump will be reelected, in part because they have already held office before.” – OPINION: Robert Kennedy Jr. will not win the presidential race - here’s why | The Suffolk Journal
“Rather than electing someone who cannot unite a divided nation and is the oldest sitting president, voters should elect RFK, who has an actual goal of national unity.” – OPINION: RFK Jr is America’s last hope for national unity | The Suffolk Journal
In today’s batch of negative articles, we focus on this misleading Associated Press piece: RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here’s who gets hurt by Kennedy’s work | AP News. We feel for the parents in this article. It is awful to lose a child.
The book mentioned in the article is Cause Unknown by Ed Dowd, who works with the Kennedy campaign, and it addresses the clearly documented phenomenon of excess deaths in countries with high COVID vaccination rates.
This next piece came out two minutes (literally) after the AP story: Takeaways from AP’s reporting on who gets hurt by RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine work | The Independent. This is ‘staging’ negative articles to make it seem that something important is actually happening that requires media attention. I predict that we will see more negative articles like this targeting Kennedy over the next few days.
Hey, Associated Press, how come you have not focused any journalistic resources into examining the cause of excess deaths over the past two years? The AP has been nowhere on this troubling issue. The phenomenon of excess deaths in countries that used COVID vaccines extensively is real, as Dr. John Campbell explains here: Sad excess deaths – Dr. John Campbell.
Dr. John Campbell
Trump difficulties:
Trump Gets a Lesson in Civics With Latest Gag Order From Judge | Daily Beast
RFK Jr. skewing numbers, helping Biden stay in front #2024 #election #politics | Michael Smerconish
Another bad day for President Biden:
Home foreclosures are on the upswing nationwide | Fox Business
BOB RUBIN: The Stone-Cold Truth About Bidenomics | The Daily Caller
Donald Trump: Biden’s Weakness and Incompetence Strengthened Iran—and Hamas | Newsweek
Will Joe Biden stand up to Iran as it threatens Middle East chaos? | NY Post
We wrap with this video from Team Kennedy about how to create a housing boom: Robert F. Kennedy Jr on X: “John F Kennedy created a program that gave Americans access to 3% interest mortgages. I’m going to create a housing boom by doing the same thing.”
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Kennedy has stepped in the mud on this one. Reparations cannot help get votes as no matter what the amount, it will not be accepted as enough. Then he will lose votes as the people thinking they should get more - they will be angry. There is no winning on this issue. Maga voters he is courting, Hispanics he is courting and Asians will all have a different take and his ability to get their vote will lessen. What will the Japanese whose parents were in internment camps in WW2 think? Will hispanic immigrants want to pay taxes to fund decedents of slaves? How will American Indians feel? There is no way to win on this. My eastern European ancestors came long after the civil war - why should I pay? I am already paying as my top academic children were denied good schools due to racial preferences. Now I have to pay more. How is this fair?
Coming out in support of reparations, which is arguably one of the most divisive issues on the political playing field, is, let me be frank, pure idiocy. We are talking about something that over 60% of liberal Californians are against. In one swell swoop, RFK will lose support of the significant numbers of conservatives, libertarians, and independents who support him, along with a significant portion of anti-woke liberals who know what a disaster this would be. The winning recipe that MLK and Fred Hampton both hit upon before they were assassinated, was a working class coalition of blacks, Latino's, and whites. The key being helping working class and poor people, all of whom today are struggling to pay their inflated rent and food and healthcare. Not giving dubious handouts based on something that we dealt with when his Father was alive. Time to move on. We have to attend to our nation and planet being hijacked by predatory capitalists and techno-fascists.