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Senate "Race" Relations (was "U.S. Society and Black Men")

Discussion in 'Community' started by Jedi Merkurian , Aug 11, 2014.

  1. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    It's my imagination that people are talking about the left wanting to destroy the country?
     
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  2. gezvader28

    gezvader28 Chosen One star 6

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    the left , the right , Ender , the complacent middle , Ender , N Korea , Russia . (but mostly Ender )
     
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  3. darth-sinister

    darth-sinister Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Trump hesitated to denounce Duke right off the bat. He lied and said that he didn't know, nor ever met him, when there is ample evidence that he did. This is Trump's method of lying. Even when it is right in front of him that he lied.

    Ah, but we do know what is in Trump's heart. We've known since the Central Park Five, that he was bigoted. From the moment when took out the full page ads in all the New York newspapers in 1989. Then his reaction when they were cleared. We have statements about not wanting black people touching his money, but Jews were acceptable. We've known since people who were applying to be tenants in his father's apartments who were turned down because they were black. We've known since he started going on about Obama's birth certificate being faked. We've known since he called Mexicans bad dudes and rapists. We've known since he appointed Steve Bannon to his campaign and later to a position in the White House. We've known since he trashed the judge in the Trump University lawsuit for being biased. We've known since the Paris attacks in December 2015. We've known since he refused to denounce David Duke and then tried to pretend that he didn't know who he was. We've known since Saturday and yesterday, how he really feels.

    No, we cannot know what is in our hearts here, though most of us wear them on our sleeves. But when there is repeated evidence of it, you can bet there's something to it.
     
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  4. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    but omarosa and ben carson
     
  5. vin

    vin Chosen One star 6

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    [​IMG]
     
  6. blackmyron

    blackmyron Chosen One star 7

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    Still have quite grasped the first statement, have you?

    All you've shown so far is that he's a hypocritical opportunist.
     
  7. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Yes, but morons across the USA and beyond love the fact the President is as mouthwateringly stupid as they are.
     
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  8. Jedi Merkurian

    Jedi Merkurian Future Films Rumor Naysayer star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Profanity warning

    If you've have seen that documentary piece from Vice about Charlottesville, you'll recognize this guy, and probably understand why I feel precious little sympathy for him...

     
  9. rumsmuggler

    rumsmuggler Chosen One star 7

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    He talked all sorts of **** until things don't go his way. Now he wants to cry...he should probably lay off the cocaine as well.
     
  10. yankee8255

    yankee8255 Force Ghost star 6

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    In his press conferences on the subject, has he even mentioned Heather Heyer? He was sure to plug his vineyard, though.
     
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  11. yankee8255

    yankee8255 Force Ghost star 6

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    In his press conferences on the subject, has he even mentioned Heather Heyer? He was sure to plug his vineyard, though.
     
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  12. DANNASUK

    DANNASUK Force Ghost star 7

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    All about white powder...
     
  13. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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  14. Jedi Merkurian

    Jedi Merkurian Future Films Rumor Naysayer star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Saw this as a meme on teh bookface:

    All those people worried about the erasure of history when the Confederate monuments come down will be thrilled to learn about the existence of books.
     
  15. Drac39

    Drac39 Force Ghost star 6

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  16. darth-sinister

    darth-sinister Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Only once and it was very brief. He went on more about everything else.
     
  17. Valairy Scot

    Valairy Scot Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I saw this headline/blurb on either CNN or MSNBC.com (at work, hence only the headline and didn't delve into the story) that started off something like, "If white people ran the country..." It seemed fairly clear that it was at the least a believer of the view that white folks are getting dinged on - you know, what with those BLM folks and all, and focus on everyone but the whites, etc. -

    My thought: "They pretty much do, you idiot, and that is why everything is so messed up and folks trying to fix it..."
     
  18. Jedi Merkurian

    Jedi Merkurian Future Films Rumor Naysayer star 7 Staff Member Manager

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  19. Rew

    Rew Chosen One star 5

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    I'm holding out a slight modicum of hope that this headline you saw was for a very subtle bit of satire. (I would actually love to read a satirical piece along these lines!)
     
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  20. tom

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  21. MarcusP2

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    That monument seems fairly distinguishable from the 'Confederate hero' monuments. It marks the graveyard of soldiers that died in a prison camp in Illinois, and isn't intended to lionise the Confederate cause. The statue itself is of a generic Confederate soldier, and all it has is the names of the soldiers that died there. It was erected in the late 19th century, and even has the names of the Union guards that died in the camp. It has nothing to do with the 'Lost Cause'.
     
  22. CT-867-5309

    CT-867-5309 Chosen One star 7

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    Yeah, soldiers died in large numbers, as they often do, and at first they were buried in Chicago City Cemetery, which closed due to flooding. They were then buried en masse in Oak Woods Cemetery. They didn't even get headstones, so they put up a memorial for them all. The memorial was paid for by private funds. It seems more like just giving them a decent burial. Everyone, certainly random soldiers who died in prison, deserves a decent burial. It's part of basic human dignity. What else were they going to do? Leave the bodies in the flooded Chicago City Cemetery, like in Poltergeist?

    It's a mass grave, they're often necessary. I don't actually know, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that there are Nazi mass graves in Russia, and all kinds of situations where people have buried the hated enemy in their own backyard. Maybe even put up some small memorial for posterity.

    It seems more like respect for the dead than anything.

    Perhaps it is distasteful to have Confederate soldiers buried somewhere near Jesse Owens and Harold Washington, but we all end up in the same place, anyway.
     
  23. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    I agree that this seems to be an example of the better way to remember the Confederacy and the Civil War.
     
  24. SergeyX2017

    SergeyX2017 Jedi Knight star 3

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    Wow, that face is just asking for a fist. Like, there are some people who you look at them and just want to punch them. This idiot looks just thusly to me...
     
  25. Harpua

    Harpua Chosen One star 9

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