Andrew Young: Don’t blame the Klan or ‘uneducated white people’
Jim Galloway
August 21, 2017 Andrew Young, Civil Rights Movement, Donald Trump, KKK, Stone Mountain.
Former Atlanta mayor and U.S. ambassador Andrew Young. AJC/Phil Skinner
If you watched NBC’s “Meet The Press” this morning, you saw former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young address President Donald Trump’s self-made crisis over race and symbolism:
But if you relied on the video alone, you missed much of what Young said. Some 20 minutes before the Atlanta broadcast, MTP released a transcript of Young’s entire interview with Chuck Todd. Much of it was the 85-year-old Young’s trademark, stream-of-consciousness style. Some of it was also a reflection of what the former U.N. ambassador said last week. The choice bits are below:
ANDREW YOUNG: Most of the issues that we’re dealing with now are related to poverty. But we still want to put everything in a racial context. The problem with the – and the reason I feel uncomfortable condemning the Klan types is – they are almost the poorest of the poor.
They are the forgotten Americans. And, um, they have been used and abused and neglected. Instead of giving them affordable health care, they give them black lung jobs, and they’re happy.
And that just doesn’t make sense in today’s world. And they see progress in the black community and on television and everywhere and they don’t share it. Now it’s not our fault. We’ve had a struggle from slavery.
Continued: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/20/andrew-young-dont-blame-the-klan-or-uneducated-white-people/
It looks like he is largely calling the unite the right types, "white trash". That's true for the vast majority I'd say.
