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    #31
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    Edith and Gloria are a dying breed. No one wants to be or wants their wives or daughters to be "great again" like those ding bats.
    Really?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/o...ives.html?_r=0

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      #32
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      Awwwwww. Poor baby. You don't like how it feels to be so blatenly excluded for so silly a reason as skin tone?
      Just detest liars and folks that create problems that don't exist usually because they are lemmings incapable of independent thought.

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        #33
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Awwwwww. Poor baby. You don't like how it feels to be so blatenly excluded for so silly a reason as skin tone?
        Can't have it both ways. Can't demand integration and then not want to integrate.

        It's one or the other.

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          #34
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Just detest liars and folks that create problems that don't exist usually because they are lemmings incapable of independent thought.
          Just try to walk in another's shoes. Go to place today where you are judged negatively and denied opportunity because of your skin or your hair or your eye color some other meaningless characteristic and check it out.

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            #35
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Just try to walk in another's shoes. Go to place today where you are judged negatively and denied opportunity because of your skin or your hair or your eye color some other meaningless characteristic and check it out.
            Must be tough, and I'm not being sarcastic.

            So, your solution is to just not integrate? Isn't that what the racists want?

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              #36
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Denial even up to very recently used to be the thing, as in please stop with calling every slight, injustice, and inequity racist. Now folks have become much bolder, especially now that folks have Trump in the saddle to create and provide cover. Now folks are just coming straight out and daring others to challenge their RIGHT to be racist....because, after all, being racist and all that entails are how things are supposed to be. Now part of the cover are appeals to "free speech" with the rejoinder "if you don't like my free speech get the heck out of my country."
              Here's the "racist" email that resulted in a college campus being shut down.

              "I would encourage others to put phenotype aside and reject this new formulation, whether they have 'registered' for it already or not. On a college campus one's right to speak--or to be--must never be based on skin color."


              http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/p...#storylink=cpy

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                #37
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Just try to walk in another's shoes. Go to place today where you are judged negatively and denied opportunity because of your skin or your hair or your eye color some other meaningless characteristic and check it out.
                We understand all of that. What we don't understand is how doing what you've criticized makes things better.

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Bannon and MIller did not make that video and have nothing to do with what Josephine, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, is saying. Try to address her points.... if you can.
                  Ummm, the topic was Bannon and Miller, who unfortunately have a little more power right now than Josephine. Maybe it's possible for you to exploit Josephine's insights as you are so ready to do and ALSO hold Bannon and Miller accountable for being truly despicable human beings.

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    We understand all of that. What we don't understand is how doing what you've criticized makes things better.
                    It is an educational exercise done by lots of schools when learning American history. Usually eye color or hair length or some equally nonsensical characteristic is substituted for skin color but the lesson is the same - Master and slave were legal and race based.

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Just try to walk in another's shoes. Go to place today where you are judged negatively and denied opportunity because of your skin or your hair or your eye color some other meaningless characteristic and check it out.
                      Whose shoes would be walking in?

                      Please give some recent factual links to back up what you say.

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                        #41
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Whose shoes would be walking in?

                        Please give some recent factual links to back up what you say.
                        You already posted the link to the controversial campus event that has sparked this discussion. Did you read the contents of the link you posted? the fact that we are having a discussion about race was the point of the event.

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                          #42
                          It's tough being the hunter in this country:

                          http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/man...town/528647827

                          I agree that we need safe spaces. maybe even safe states!

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                            #43
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            You already posted the link to the controversial campus event that has sparked this discussion. Did you read the contents of the link you posted? the fact that we are having a discussion about race was the point of the event.
                            That story is about students demanding a 'no whites' day (not much media play. Wonder what would happen if white students demanded a 'no blacks' day)?. Still waiting for someone to post recent factual links describing an example of why it is difficult to be black in society today.

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                              #44
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              That story is about students demanding a 'no whites' day (not much media play. Wonder what would happen if white students demanded a 'no blacks' day)?. Still waiting for someone to post recent factual links describing an example of why it is difficult to be black in society today.
                              Don't wait for me. I am out. If you even read it quickly it mentions that every other year past they did it a blacks absent day. This is they first year they reversed it. At least skim it if you are going to post it.

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                                #45
                                https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurash.../#35b8c19835b8

                                28 year old single mother of four kids - ages 11, 7, 5, 4. Food stamps are not sufficient to feed her hungry family. She works part time at McDonald's. Will making $10 an hour help this woman climb out of poverty? I doubt it.

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