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06-21-2015, 10:56 AM
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Perhaps "kept from the public eye more than 40 years ago" would have communicated my thoughts more effectively.
There are no longer public lynchings, State sanctioned segregation, or blatant attempts at voter suppression - those violations still occur, but the perpetrators attempt to cloak the "bile" either in tongue twisted attempts at moral and civic justification or simply keeping the offences from public view.
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This type of dissembling is often used by our modern day racists and it is just as often bought off on by people who are not racists in their own eyes. We here in the good old USofA are truly unique in one way in that we enslaved our fellow citizens and most of our founders knew this was wrong. SC was the source of the sedition that gave us the Civil War. I don't think I'm a racist, but there's no way growing up white in America did not impact my perceptions of African Americans. If I were an African American there's no way I'd trust white folk, at least not until I got to know them really well. This is not reverse racism, just good sense.
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06-21-2015, 11:19 AM
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This type of dissembling is often used by our modern day racists and it is just as often bought off on by people who are not racists in their own eyes. We here in the good old USofA are truly unique in one way in that we enslaved our fellow citizens and most of our founders knew this was wrong. SC was the source of the sedition that gave us the Civil War. I don't think I'm a racist, but there's no way growing up white in America did not impact my perceptions of African Americans. If I were an African American there's no way I'd trust white folk, at least not until I got to know them really well. This is not reverse racism, just good sense.
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Quite so.
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06-21-2015, 11:32 AM
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Dissembling? By me? How so?
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06-21-2015, 11:37 AM
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Dissembling? By me? How so?
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Don't think he meant you, I think he meant the 'perpetrators' you described.
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06-21-2015, 11:38 AM
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Don't think he meant you, I think he meant the 'perpetrators' you described.
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Ah - I AM getting up in years.
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06-21-2015, 11:59 AM
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Ah - I AM getting up in years.
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I don't care what anyone else says, getting old sucks.
My take on this flag thing: They celebrate the Battle Flag under which their misled ancestors, most of whom were fooled/coerced/forced into fighting, killed their fellow Americans.
It's no wonder the capitalists' were able to snow most of the working class and just about all of the middle class.
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06-21-2015, 12:03 PM
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I believe the flag will be on it's way to a museum very soon - they did it in Florida 15 years ago, needs to get done here.
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06-21-2015, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by nailer
This type of dissembling is often used by our modern day racists and it is just as often bought off on by people who are not racists in their own eyes. We here in the good old USofA are truly unique in one way in that we enslaved our fellow citizens and most of our founders knew this was wrong. SC was the source of the sedition that gave us the Civil War. I don't think I'm a racist, but there's no way growing up white in America did not impact my perceptions of African Americans. If I were an African American there's no way I'd trust white folk, at least not until I got to know them really well. This is not reverse racism, just good sense.
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+1. Excellent sense.
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06-21-2015, 12:13 PM
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I believe the flag will be on it's way to a museum very soon - they did it in Florida 15 years ago, needs to get done here.
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In some states that flag was retired long ago.........and dragged back out by nostalgic fools. Remember the whole "Heritage not Hate" meme?
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06-21-2015, 02:00 PM
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I don't care what anyone else says, getting old sucks.
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Tell me about it.
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