What Nick Cannon said is exactly how misinformation spreads.
Yes, the KKK was tied to Southern Democrats in the 1800s. That part is true.
But leaving out what happened next changes the entire meaning.
In the 1960s, after Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the racists who supported segregation did not just disappear…
They left the Democratic Party and shifted politically. That is a huge part of the story that keeps getting left out.
AND THAT MATTERS.
Because when we, especially Black voices with big platforms, repeat half stories, it does not just stay a conversation. It spreads and it can be used against us.
We cannot afford to be loud and wrong at the same time, especially right now.
@SenFettermanPA@POTUS Trump campaigned as a “never war president”, that’s what MAGA voters wanted.
We listened to MAGA slam Biden relentlessly for dragging us into two wars that we were never a part of. We never fired a single shot.
So here we are. At war with Iran.
As expected, Bloody Donald opens his 2020 re-election campaign with a 'wag the dog' act of war against encircled Iran. All without Congressional authority going back to Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003. -R
Trump promised to get the US out of “stupid wars.” But now he and John Bolton are on the brink of launching us into a very stupid and costly war with Iran. Join me in sending a strong message to President Trump: The US must NOT go to war with Iran. #TULSI2020
Trump's shortsighted foreign policy is bringing us to the brink of war with Iran and allowing Iran to accelerate nuclear program—just to please Saudis and Netanyahu. This is not America first.