confederate flag?
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MAKAVELI
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Really? Wtf does your ignorant post have to do with the Confederate flag and its representation of America's history of slavery?
tourists24
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Why? It's ok to be divisive if you agree with it?
MrFedEx
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It gives him the opportunity to regurgitate the Republican narrative concerning Black people. You see, to the GOP, most Black people are either rappers, thugs, or criminals. They don't see the vast majority of Blacks working hard, living law-abiding lives, and wanting the same things for their families and children that "we" do. They'd prefer to focus on problem urban areas like Oakland, Detroit, and, of course, Ground Zero for everything bad about Black people...Chicago.
Any opportunity to associate bad things with Obama is snapped-up and twisted into their narrative.
MrFedEx
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Dude, this fool is the definition of a "Tom". Besides being obviously delusional, he is Whitey's boy all the way. Of course, the fools and tools on the Right seize upon this nut case and extrapolate the "fact" that a lot of Black people think like Step and Fetch It in his silly-ass uniform.
What a dumb POS. Not you...him.
MrFedEx
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I haven't seen a Che or Commie shirt/poster in years. More BS from the right. Besides, neither of those symbols have anything to do with oppression or racism is this country. Of course, you don't realize that.
Babagounj
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For many black Americans, Confederate flag debate a distraction
As calls grow to remove the Confederate flag from public spaces across America's South, Vanessa White says she questions whether that would mark real progress for black Americans like her.
The 57-year-old Compton, California construction worker has seen and endured too much, she says, to be excited. Over the years, five members of her family have been killed by guns: her two brothers, at the ages of 28 and 38; her nephew, at 19; her niece, at 16; and her niece's mother, at 28. All of them had dropped out of school in their teens.
"We never felt like we were allowed near normal life," said White, speaking from the tidy, two-story home she purchased last year in the struggling suburb south of Los Angeles.
Across the country, African Americans are applauding a fast-growing movement to remove the Confederate flag from public life after last week's racially charged massacre of nine black worshipers in a Charleston church. But even many of those who support the effort suspect it will do little to address what they see as fundamental racial injustices - from mass incarceration of black men to a lack of economic and educational opportunities.
White’s view, she says, was shaped by exposure to racism as a child and also by a family she describes as dysfunctional. Her single mother was an alcoholic, and her brothers began committing crimes at an early age. She says she grew up never feeling like a real person because of her race.
In South Los Angeles, residents interviewed said that while they welcomed the prospect of the Civil War-era flag finally being purged from public grounds, they did not see its removal as a watershed moment for race in America.
As calls grow to remove the Confederate flag from public spaces across America's South, Vanessa White says she questions whether that would mark real progress for black Americans like her.
The 57-year-old Compton, California construction worker has seen and endured too much, she says, to be excited. Over the years, five members of her family have been killed by guns: her two brothers, at the ages of 28 and 38; her nephew, at 19; her niece, at 16; and her niece's mother, at 28. All of them had dropped out of school in their teens.
"We never felt like we were allowed near normal life," said White, speaking from the tidy, two-story home she purchased last year in the struggling suburb south of Los Angeles.
Across the country, African Americans are applauding a fast-growing movement to remove the Confederate flag from public life after last week's racially charged massacre of nine black worshipers in a Charleston church. But even many of those who support the effort suspect it will do little to address what they see as fundamental racial injustices - from mass incarceration of black men to a lack of economic and educational opportunities.
White’s view, she says, was shaped by exposure to racism as a child and also by a family she describes as dysfunctional. Her single mother was an alcoholic, and her brothers began committing crimes at an early age. She says she grew up never feeling like a real person because of her race.
In South Los Angeles, residents interviewed said that while they welcomed the prospect of the Civil War-era flag finally being purged from public grounds, they did not see its removal as a watershed moment for race in America.
wkmac
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Both flags can be symbolic to people who equally have the capacity to suppress the free thoughts of others.
MrFedEx
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Your earlier post read like a FOX News script about stereotyped blacks. This sounds like the opinion of one black woman, who happens to live in Compton, which isn't a great place. If you've ever been there, you'd know. Go 40 miles south and talk to a suburban black homeowner in Orange County and ask the same question(s). Same goes for the rest of the country.
You can't make blanket statements about blacks based on what happens in Compton, Oakland, Richmond, Chicago, or Detroit. These are all inner city crap areas, and don't represent the big picture.
DriveInDriveOut
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realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
wkmac
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And Bull Connor should be lionized next to Rosa Parks too!
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
wkmac
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I didn't realize thinking was involved. I was just following your lead.
As for quoting someone, with thinking not involved, that was the reason I quoted you!!
rod
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DriveInDriveOut
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