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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts) Sat Feb 2, 2019, 01:08 AM Feb 2019

Earl Butz had to resign as Secretary Of Agriculture in 1976 for making racist comments

I will just provide a link so you can read them for yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz

And not copy and past them because they are so demeaning.

So don't try to blow smoke up my a-- by telling me blackface was not verboten by 1984.

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Earl Butz had to resign as Secretary Of Agriculture in 1976 for making racist comments (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 OP

In 1976 the public schools were more integrated than they are now. delisen Feb 2019 #1

Oh this is a great podcast to listen to MrGrieves Feb 2019 #2

Not posting what he said, but I think this is interesting ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #3

delisen

(6,044 posts)

1. In 1976 the public schools were more integrated than they are now.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 02:11 AM

Feb 2019

It was done by busing.

May of my white progressive and liberal friends don't send their kids to integrated schools today, nor do they live in diverse neighborhoods They will undoubtedly be telling me tomorrow that Northam is a racist.

Yet I wonder if perhaps they are just not making the changes in their lives that would allow us to become a more egalitarian society, and instead are pointing fingers elsewhere.

MrGrieves

(315 posts)

2. Oh this is a great podcast to listen to

Reply to delisen (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 02:14 AM

Feb 2019

Share it far and wide....

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-one

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

3. Not posting what he said, but I think this is interesting

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 02:17 AM

Feb 2019

No one would publish what he said, so...

The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal said the original statement was available in the newspaper office; more than 200 stopped by to read it. The San Diego Evening Tribune offered to mail a copy of the whole quotation to anyone who requested it; more than 3,000 readers did.

And yet we publish every damned word spoken by the orange shitstain.

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