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2016 Postmortem

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still_one

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Thu Dec 15, 2016, 11:59 AM Dec 2016

White man taunts black comedian: Trumps victory entitles me to call you a ni***r [View all]

"Comedian Jon Laster was performing at the Gotham Comedy Club in Chelsea, Manhattan just a week after the election when he reached “a boiling point” of personal frustration, Rolling Stone reports.

Laster recounted how at the end of the night’s sets, a white middle-aged individual approached him at the bar and said, “Man you were really funny, and you’re black!”

The man continued, “Since Trump won the election, there’s a lot America needs to reconsider. We need to put that ‘politically correct’ stuff to bed; now I should be able to call you ‘n-word.'”

Laster then recounted how he had to hold himself back from punching the man. After the incident, he wrote on his Facebook, “I’ve spent the entire weekend disgusted that we have to deal with this and disgusted that I didn’t break his jaw [and] it’s not an Alabama problem.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-man-taunts-black-comedian-trumps-victory-entitles-me-to-call-you-a-nir/

This is becoming more common place.

To borrow a phrase from the New York Sun editorial of September 21, 1897,

Yes, Virginia, racism is alive and well in America

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Trump got votes from 20% of the population so, yeah, EVERYTHING changed underpants Dec 2016 #1
Amazing what crawls out when you lift up a rock, and Trump lifted up a big one. Hekate Dec 2016 #2
It is really disgusting and depressing still_one Dec 2016 #12
Another stupid thing connected to the right's "political correctness" strawman ck4829 Dec 2016 #3
and I should be able to call that ignorant white asshole a racist piece of filth and a complete niyad Dec 2016 #4
They wear the label "deplorable" with pride. n/t progressoid Dec 2016 #5
it is really going to piss them off when people start fighting back now that their leader looks niyad Dec 2016 #7
second city here is sick of their shit. mopinko Dec 2016 #6
That's is sad they have a diversity outreach program and have been around for ever lunasun Dec 2016 #27
A lot of this came out in the open brer cat Dec 2016 #8
Wow. A drunk dude at a bar, speaking obnoxiously. mac56 Dec 2016 #9
I don't call it being "Politically Correct" tom_kelly Dec 2016 #10
Well then I can call him White Trash. sheshe2 Dec 2016 #11
How about asshole? world wide wally Dec 2016 #14
That would be too "politically correct" resistance2016 Dec 2016 #32
Call Someone The N-Word erpowers Dec 2016 #13
"It's not an Alabama problem." NCTraveler Dec 2016 #15
yup, the most important sentence from the report still_one Dec 2016 #16
If people wanted change from a anti-establishment candidate kacekwl Dec 2016 #17
The level of aggression and hate is disturbing. It can't be easy to have to put up with it. JCanete Dec 2016 #18
It's a truly pathetic group of people whose greatest aspiration is to call people Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2016 #19
This is repulsive and... 3catwoman3 Dec 2016 #20
How about being just plain civil & polite? I learned good manners from my parents Raine Dec 2016 #21
Taught them to hate and be racist. Parents probably installed the we don't have because they do lunasun Dec 2016 #28
This message was self-deleted by its author lunasun Dec 2016 #29
The new normal?? ailsagirl Dec 2016 #22
That is the most troubling still_one Dec 2016 #23
Gleeful racists are coming out of the woodwork ailsagirl Dec 2016 #24
yes, just as Trump's bigot attacks were equal to Clinton and emails JI7 Dec 2016 #31
I guess that makes him powerful now.. coco22 Dec 2016 #25
But if we call that person a mother fuckin racist bitch Buzz cook Dec 2016 #26
Call him the n-word then, coward! resistance2016 Dec 2016 #30
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