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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think I may be going to a Trump re-education camp or
something. Me and a friend (another Democrat) are having coffee at McDonald's. This other guy (a Trumpster) comes up and starts mouthing off about the damn n----s taking a knee for the National Anthem. He said he would never watch another Steelers game and
Mike Tomlin was a racist asshole. He calls Tomlin a racist asshole after talking about n-----s himself. I told him they have a constitutional right to peacefully protest and my friend told him Trump never said a word about the Nazis and KKK carrying guns at their protest. He said Trump was going to take care of people like us and stormed away red faced. LOL
murielm99
(30,745 posts)Complain to the people working. Get a manager.
That must have been very disturbing.
doc03
(35,346 posts)easy when you say something anti Republican. Wasn't anyone really close by.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Once. Mom had just gotten back from Selma to Montgomery.
Ever eaten a bar of ivory soap?
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)dial soap shoved in his mouth.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)My Dad was a liberal GOP and Mom was a Democrat. Both had grown up with diversity.
doc03
(35,346 posts)and older people in the Eastern Ohio and West Virginia area. I swear people around here are more prejudiced than most
places in the south. If you are a Democrat in this area you don't have many people you can talk to. I hear this shit and when a black person comes around they act like they are buddies. Sometimes I get an urge to say you know they call you a n---- behind your back.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Awful.
I knew very young that I wanted to get out of that area.
The ignorance is staggering.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Yes, you obviously did! <<<<<<<<<<HUG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)haele
(12,660 posts)Because I heard a bunch of people on the news yell that at Civil Rights protesters when I was 6.
It took me 20 year to be able say that word just as a reference without grimacing and feeling like I had to rinse my mouth out...made it pretty difficult when I had to recite old writings or was playing certain parts in historical recreation.
Haele
raven mad
(4,940 posts)I probably would still be regrowing my tongue.
Dad had just gone to work for NASA, and I can tell you the number of times I heard him use that word.
None.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I've got neighbors who will undoubtedly turn me in.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)I have some.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)us from other states will be moving there...if this extreme RW destruction of democracy continues.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)if California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska decided heck with all y'all, we'd have a heck of a new nation and a great time!
maveric
(16,445 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)I hope you laughed at him. That really pisses them off.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Sometimes, when I am filled with despair at the fact that there are so many of them, I have to remind myself of the fact that most of these people don't know what it is like to have a moment of peace or joy in their lives.
They are so miserably bitter and unhappy because they don't take any responsibility for their lives or how they feel. They just point the finger and everything is somebody else's fault. Most of them have never really matured into adulthood.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)are filled with hate because their secret dreams never came true for their lives
usually because they didn't pursue them, but that's not a valid reason to them
They just know they aren't CEO's or "rich" or "famous" or the QB of the Bears or a TV star or something.
And it's someone's fault who isn't them.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)expected everything to just be handed to them on a silver platter without having to work for it. Meanwhile, all of the people they condemn have been working their asses off and it's finally paying off for them. Yet, it never occurs to these bitter racists and sexists that they actually have to DO SOMETHING to get ahead.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)smarts, or just desire.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)They *haven't* experienced the kind of joy we have. They can't want good things for other people, so it's impossible for them to rejoice in health coverage for the poor or free tuition at community colleges or all the good things most of us want, not for ourselves but for our country and the world.
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)If they go to the Super bowl, he'll watch for sure.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)doc03
(35,346 posts)McDonalds doesn't have a TV. Every McDonalds I was ever been in that had a TV it was tuned to Fox News.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Save me some space
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)I always ask if they truly believe Mexico is actually going to pay for a wall. You'd be surprised how many don't really want to discuss this topic. Somewhere in the backs of their minds even they know it's a ridiculous notion.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Should be a lot of familiar people there.
PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)If we don't want that; if we don't want our country to 'move on' to become a dictatorship; if we don't want another Holocaust; if we don't want the entire civilized world against us in a world war; if we don't want those allied against us to pick their way through the ruins of our cities after we lose such a war, then we need to stand up now and challenge Trump every single step of the way. Don't give him or the Republicans or the billionaire freaks who own them an inch.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)He probably figures Trump is going to use Obama's FEMA trailers to lock us up with Hillary. hahaha
yardwork
(61,650 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)You and I might be next.