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  1. Orion Bailey

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    Nothing more than the same you are implying here when you say you support the larger groups. what are you implying there?
     
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    They recommend a 14 day quarantine when getting off an airplane before contacting the public....hope you've planned for that to protect the lives of innocent children and all.
     
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    I'm going to find a grassroots organization that says that is BS.
     
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    Why is it white people want to give you a nickname after only knowing you for a few days?
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    NO CLUE, BOSSMAN
     
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    Got it. Thanks for the great insights. By the way. I LOVE the NY Magazine.
     
  8. Chris Craig

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    What a terribly narrow minded thing to say. I see you are comfortable with corporately led "grass roots" organizations that would keep civil rights progress contained in a nicely wrapped package with a bow on top, so as not to disturb your privelage.


    Again, America is defined by its failures as much as its successes. America is also defined by how it answers for those failures.

    Simply, pretending that those failures have resolved themselves or became absolved over the years, simply because time passed or some progress was made is short sighted and unjust.
     
  9. ABM

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    Nice whiff. I've said far more in here than what you're alluding to. But, that's OK
     
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    Sure, when you're clearly proven wrong, just dismiss your way out of the debate. The more important point is that everyone else also understands the game you're playing when you invoke President Obama and falsely question why he didn't do anything.
     
  11. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Ya gotta admit, no matter how many times @ABM shoots himself in the foot, he keeps coming back for more. The poor guy has to be in a wheelchair by now, considering how many toes he’s already blown off.....but he has “grit”......for whatever that is worth.......
     
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  12. ABM

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    Sorry about being so hard on President Obama. What you're saying is, had racist Trump not gotten in the way, George Floyd would be alive today.
     
  13. ABM

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    Yep, sure. Really hurtin' over here. LOL

    Dang, it's time to trot out my hero again. For whatever reason, she makes me chuckle....

     
  14. Chris Craig

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    No. You have repeated the same thing over and over again. You don't support BLM because the prospect of an all out civil rights movement scares you.

    It is easy to to look around and say you will go with an organization that kind of supports black lives as long as it absolves white people and the racist system that we live in. That way you can signal that you support black people, but hold onto so called values that were built on a house of lies.

    It is not enough to celebrate the few successes and pretend the failures didn't happen. As white men, it is our responsibility to call out and to own the past atrocities committed by the white men that came before us, by a declaration that has failed to value all life equally as it was intended. For we have benefited from a lopsided racist system, not inclusive to all men (and women) and therefore we are complicit.
     
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    Oh Boy ABM.

    Oh boy....

    Damn founders shoulda just walked away too and let an overseas monarchy control everything.....
     
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    It's beginning to look more like anarchy. MLK was a great leader. Who's leading the charge today?
     
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    Probably

    Regardless, it's not just Trump. It's the racist system that has existed in our country since it's inception. Trump has only magnified and brought to the surface the worst of that systems byproduct.
     
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    The people
     
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  19. ABM

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    And BLM is fixing all of that....since 2013. Got it.
     
  20. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

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    Dude, you and I are very close in age. We went through this shit 50+ years ago. Why are we going through it again??? Because too many white people have no problem talking the talk. It’s easier than shit. But very few white people (until now) have been willing to walk the walk. All you are doing is trying to make yourself feel better about yourself for doing nothing. Classic “but some of my best friends are black” rationalization to keep from thinking too deeply. Ya wouldn’t want to make your head hurt, now wouldja??
     
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