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The Clintons’ sordid race game: No one will say it, but the Clintons’ rise was premised on repudiati (Original Post) silenttigersong Feb 2016 OP
Good quote in here JudyM Feb 2016 #1
When I said the same thing a while ago I was nearly carted off as a racist. People don't thereismore Feb 2016 #2
Yep. On the other hand, try bringing anti-semitism up, and you're laughed/insulted out of the room. JudyM Feb 2016 #4
That is what is so tragically ironic Armstead Feb 2016 #3
+ a brazillion. kath Feb 2016 #6
K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2016 #5

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
1. Good quote in here
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:33 PM
Feb 2016

"I can’t believe Hillary would be coasting into the primaries with her current margin of black support if most people knew how much damage the Clintons have done – the millions of families that were destroyed the last time they were in the White House thanks to their boastful embrace of the mass incarceration machine and their total capitulation to the right-wing narrative on race, crime, welfare and taxes....". Michelle Alexander

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
2. When I said the same thing a while ago I was nearly carted off as a racist. People don't
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 06:15 PM
Feb 2016

listen anymore, they judge you first.

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
4. Yep. On the other hand, try bringing anti-semitism up, and you're laughed/insulted out of the room.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:09 PM
Feb 2016
 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
3. That is what is so tragically ironic
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 06:20 PM
Feb 2016

I remember that transformation very well.

"The Democrats are no longer the party of welfare queens, special interests (minorities) Liberal Entitlement Programs or rabble rousing leftists."

"We are the party of white Americans who play by the rules and worship God."


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