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kwassa

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15. Ta-nehisi Coates is covering this same ground ....
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 08:27 AM
Sep 2017

in statistical detail in his "First White President" article in The Atlantic. He basically destroys all the arguments that it could possibly be anything BUT racism.

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I thought it was and is pretty obvious that he is a racist BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1
!!! Alice11111 Sep 2017 #3
He was the chief Birther. How could folks not grasp how racist he is from that fact alone? emulatorloo Sep 2017 #4
+1. A Real BIC politicasista Sep 2017 #31
Fuck no. I do not want black people, or any minority, or Alice11111 Sep 2017 #2
I share this view. JNelson6563 Sep 2017 #5
!!! Alice11111 Sep 2017 #13
90 million non voters determined the election Mosby Sep 2017 #6
That's a true thing. stewrat Sep 2017 #8
trump won MI, WI and PA by a combined Mosby Sep 2017 #9
so heaven05 Sep 2017 #17
And the huge numbers of white people that actually voted for trump JI7 Sep 2017 #22
And the huge number of liberal whites who felt they had the luxury of a non-voting protest... marble falls Nov 2017 #54
Ditto heaven05 - did I read your response correctly? JustAnotherGen Sep 2017 #18
im not blaming minorities Mosby Sep 2017 #19
nah heaven05 Sep 2017 #25
Yeah. Mosby Sep 2017 #29
I prefer to blame those infamous "white working class men" who Hortensis Oct 2017 #42
HRC did lose a lot of middle, low income obama voters to trump Mosby Oct 2017 #43
Everyone understands what you're doing, Mosby. Hortensis Oct 2017 #44
voter apathy is just a term Mosby Oct 2017 #45
Bye. Hortensis Oct 2017 #46
do these posters have an "agenda"? Mosby Nov 2017 #48
I'll answer your question, no agenda here steve2470 Nov 2017 #49
yep, I think so heaven05 Sep 2017 #24
Let's be REALLY honest radical noodle Sep 2017 #26
I worked September and October 2016 in PA. lapucelle Oct 2017 #41
Cut the bullshit repug talking point,as if dirty, repug vote suppression never targeted black voters brush Nov 2017 #55
Many more of whom were not. LanternWaste Sep 2017 #35
im not pushing a narrative Mosby Sep 2017 #36
Odd that... because in your initial pos LanternWaste Oct 2017 #38
Voter turnout in 2016 among Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other non-whites.... George II Oct 2017 #39
Voter suppression mcar Oct 2017 #40
The media can kiss my ass. 47of74 Sep 2017 #7
Racism and Bigotry got Trump Elected thbobby Sep 2017 #10
it's the talk radio - see below certainot Sep 2017 #12
I am a 'white' second generation American sprinkleeninow Sep 2017 #28
the only reason he got close to the white house was liberal/left/sane american ignorance of certainot Sep 2017 #11
Haters gonna hate thbobby Sep 2017 #14
i think ignoring the hate and ignorance from those stations makes it more 'acceptable' certainot Sep 2017 #21
You are correct thbobby Sep 2017 #23
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
and trump got to the white house on the backs of certainot Sep 2017 #33
I would say it was because of millions white racists JI7 Sep 2017 #34
KQQQ Pullman, WA is one of those. We call it KKKQ. Pullman is where Washington State U. is. brewens Nov 2017 #53
Ta-nehisi Coates is covering this same ground .... kwassa Sep 2017 #15
That's exactly how I read this article MrScorpio Sep 2017 #16
I was not convinced of this right after the election ... kwassa Sep 2017 #20
I think it could be called radical noodle Sep 2017 #27
+++ heaven05 Oct 2017 #37
Ignorance is Bliss but Ignorance is also Taught. hoping4betterdays Oct 2017 #47
Welcome to DU irisblue Nov 2017 #50
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Give California an equal voice, and equal vote, in presidential elections, Sophia4 Nov 2017 #52
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