There’s no extortion like progressive extortion.
On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, America’s first Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, D-Minn., appeared on ABC’s “This Week” argued that raising the national minimum wage would reduce black and Hispanic hostility to the police officers patrolling their communities.
“This is gonna help the issue of racial justice,” he said. “Huge percentages of black and Latino people are making below the minimum wage and I believe this is fueling part of the problems we’ve been seeing in urban America with issues between bad interactions between police and community.”
Ellison mentioned Sandra Bland, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray, implying that somehow an increased minimum wage would have prevented their deaths.
“If you raise people’s pay, give them a livable wage, they are not gonna have all these negative reactions,” he said.
Bland, who committed suicide by hanging herself in a Texas jail three days after her controversial July 10 arrest, had just been hired as a student adviser at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University in Texas. It’s doubtful she was making the minimum wage.
It’s even more doubtful that the minimum wage came into play in Eric Garner’s illegal cigarette vending business on Staten Island before he died after resisting arrest
And Baltimore drug dealer Freddie Gray wasn’t punching a clock for the minimum before his death in police custody in April.
So what Ellison was really implying was that the kind of “black lives matter” unrest that followed the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officers who arrested Garner, or the riots that racked Baltimore after Gray’s death, could be bought off with a minimum wage increase.
Liberals call that logic. Honest people call it extortion.
The Twitterverse saw right through Ellison’s argument.
WTH! How will raising minimum wage prevent #SandraBland?! She HAD a job! Moronic racialist talking point from @keithellison unchallenged lol
— el Sooper ن (@SooperMexican) July 26, 2015
@SooperMexican @keithellison It’s like this. Gets pulled over Assaults Cop Goes to Jail Realizes she doesn’t make $15/Hr Commits Suicide.
— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) July 26, 2015
@SooperMexican @keithellison Don’t obscure the message with facts.
— fernando (@fxlozano) July 26, 2015
@SooperMexican @keithellison The dumbest man in Congress
— Soylent Greg (@Greg2412) July 26, 2015
@SooperMexican @keithellison The Left never saw a corpse they couldn’t exploit
— . (@Oldguyintheboon) July 26, 2015
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