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In reply to the discussion: Just Be Honest And Say You Want Black People To Suffer In Silence [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)2. Fuck no. I do not want black people, or any minority, or
person egregiously wronged, to suffer in silence. I'm against war, generally. For this, I am a soldier, willing to die, in my private and professional life. Paraphrasing, but as, MLK said, if you don't have something worth dying for, you really don't have anything worth living for either. My father used to remind me of this when I was very young.
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He was the chief Birther. How could folks not grasp how racist he is from that fact alone?
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#4
And the huge number of liberal whites who felt they had the luxury of a non-voting protest...
marble falls
Nov 2017
#54
Cut the bullshit repug talking point,as if dirty, repug vote suppression never targeted black voters
brush
Nov 2017
#55
Voter turnout in 2016 among Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other non-whites....
George II
Oct 2017
#39
the only reason he got close to the white house was liberal/left/sane american ignorance of
certainot
Sep 2017
#11
i think ignoring the hate and ignorance from those stations makes it more 'acceptable'
certainot
Sep 2017
#21
its hard for them to feel confronted if it's ok for more than 88 universities and a lot of pro
certainot
Sep 2017
#30
but they had no problem speaking out against Kaepernick for not standing during the anthem
JI7
Sep 2017
#32