Republicans. No one will ever make me understand that phenomenon. Mia Love, Tim Scott, Allen West? It's almost as if they have to compartmentalize/minimize their blackness in order to fit in with a party that doesn't respect them. Why would anyone do that?

I don't get white republicans either.

they are racists- pure and simple. The ones I don't get are black or gay republicans. What the hell are they thinking?

It permeates their entire way of thinking

Even if they have to pretend the Republicans are laughing with them, not at them.

GOPers are betting on Citizens United, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and lazy voters.

Not this time GOP, na na na. LOL

reason the South hated America when Lincoln was president.

But so glad the White House is riding on point. This will swing the election to the Democrats because Republicans have become the party of relics of a day long gone.

I lived in PA all my life till I was 55 or so, and moved to Michigan. In PA (Pittsburgh area) I never saw a confederate flag. In Michigan, I was told that trucks were seen in Port Huron all the time with that flag on it, and I never saw them nor would have paid any attention to them had I seen them.

Michigan is where that guy Timothy McVeigh who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma lived, and I hav e heard that there are a bunch of folks up where he lived that don't like to obey laws because they infringe on their rights. And I'm really not sure who flies the flag up there or dorns their trucks with it.

If you look up "confederate flag in Michigan" in Search, you'll find the flag is still being used by some and neighbors hate it..

So, when the issue of the flag came up, I never connected it with black slavery, I thought it just meant that these folks hate the north, not blacks, just the north, and the Government. I think they're into survival and love their guns. It's still a symbol of hate, but I misunderstood who the hate was for.

I'm happy to see that the flag is going down in the south where it stood for selling babies of slaves, beatings, etc., but don't know if it'll ever come down up in middle/northern Michigan...

so with these ongoing, regular police murders of innocent civilians, the US is effectively authorising war crimes, although in this case, perpetrated deliberately, and by officers of the law. Not that dissimilar from the Nazi regime in Germany and its occupied countries, during the WWII.