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Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:55 PM Mar 2015

Dave Agema sticks his foot in mouth again...

I've been told the GOP wants to get rid of him, but they don't know how.

RNC Member Dave Agema: Obama Is Only '6.26% Black'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 3/10/2015 12:20 pm In a winding and grammatically challenged Facebook post yesterday, Michigan Republican National Committee member Dave Agema lashed out at President Obama for his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights march, suggesting that Obama was unqualified to give the speech because he is only “6,26% [sic]” black.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-member-dave-agema-obama-only-626-black#sthash.na25JvoB.dpuf

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2015/02/1300-dave-agema.html

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Dave Agema sticks his foot in mouth again... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2015 OP
He is using the blood quantem process that is often used for membership in tribes - to my jwirr Mar 2015 #1

jwirr

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1. He is using the blood quantem process that is often used for membership in tribes - to my
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 01:12 PM
Mar 2015

knowledge that process has never been applied to black people. Definitely it was not used to determine who was a slave and was not used in Jim Crow either. If you had a black ancestor then you were black. In order to pass for white one had to hide any black ancestry.

Hey those are rules you haters created and now you want to say you are not discriminating using a blood quantum?

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