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MBS

(9,688 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 07:20 AM Sep 2012

Ayanna Presley on Scott Brown staffers' racist taunt

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755822/vp/49187980#49187980

Her remarks start about 1/3 of the way in. Really good. One excerpt (guess which senator she's talking about : ))

I was an aide to a US senator, and it is fair to say that your staff is not only a reflection of you, but a reflection on you. . .
Scott Brown isn't just a candidate. He is a sitting US senator. And I want someone in that seat who subscribes to E pluribus unum, out of many, one


If there is any justice out there, this woman should go far.
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Ayanna Presley on Scott Brown staffers' racist taunt (Original Post) MBS Sep 2012 OP
That is a wonderful... YvonneCa Sep 2012 #1
Watched it. politicasista Oct 2012 #2

YvonneCa

(10,117 posts)
1. That is a wonderful...
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 01:20 PM
Sep 2012

...statement. As a person who also grew up with stories about my Cherokee heritage on my father's side of the family...unsubstantiated, but what I was told by my family...I empathize with her situation.

How dare any person...who has no clue about my family...use my family's heritage against me? Scott Brown AND those staffers need to go...

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