Tagged: Jimmy Carter

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few, but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend upon it.” — Jimmy Carter

Source: Inaugural Address as Governor of Georgia, January 12, 1971.

Jimmy Carter — the former president of the United States of America — spent more than 3 minutes talking about racism in America with the Huffington Post. he stated that following the events in Ferguson and Staten Island, he hoped that America took “another look to correct the problems that still exist [and] have not been resolved with the civil rights movement,” AGREED with the interviewer’s statement that “the country is still undergirded by racism,” but at the end of his conversation on issue of ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬, refused to explicitly admit that America as a whole, is STILL racist. instead, he said our nation has “a very heavy race issue.” that’s a nice way to put it Jimmy!

Watch the interview here: “Jimmy Carter on #BlackLivesMatter: We Need ‘Absolute Equality.’ Huffington Post. January 13, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/13/jimmy-carter-black-lives-matter_n_6463406.html?ir=Politics&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013.