Frederick Douglass

[heaven05]

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http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html

[sheshe2]

1. +1000

[heaven05]

2. you know the deal

[sheshe2]

3. Yep.

[brer cat]

4. This should be read not as history,

but for the meaning it has for us still today.

[heaven05]

5. and the trumpturd

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can't stand that affirmative action has helped thousands, maybe hundreds of thousand "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" without wypipo boots on their necks. Now the trumpturd is looking to shut down President Obama's efforts to keep affirmative action as a way for thousands more to find success in this now, again, extremely hateful and racist country. We are going to be in a bad place again. Soon. The ugly hateful faction of white people called wypipo has a leader in the trumpturd, the Congress and the Supremacist Court. I just am at my wits ends on how to deal with these hateful types. It's mean out in society today in a way I haven't seen in a long, long time. Keep your powder dry, seriously.

[brer cat]

6. Affirmative action is one of the very few ways that this country

has even attempted to make reparation. As small a step as it is vis a vis the obligation we owe, it is still too much for those who harbor nothing but hatred.

It's mean out in society today in a way I haven't seen in a long, long time.

Yes, it is, and I am old enough to remember the Jim Crow south.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Funny thing about affirmative action we have to remember

is that white women are the biggest beneficiaries of all disenfranchised groups though 67 percent of them oppose it now and most white people think it benefits PoC the most...lol, funny how the wealthy take the lion share and we fight over slim pickings. I think we can only fight the hateful types with making facts great. I hesitate to say make facts great again because they've never really been where we're concerned. But we still have to keep drumming the truth until enough of us exclaim "wrong" loud enough and vote.

But I do worry about what happens when 45-turd administration is done. This isn't the first, second or third time, since the end of the Civil War that there's been a big call for unity with PoC shafted after things settle, the status quo/"normalcy" continues, and the process starts all over again within another 30 to 50 years in this pirate culture. But can't focus on tomorrow when there's so much to do today.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/affirmative-action-still-matters_us_5981d9b6e4b0353fbb33e1bb

http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/17/affirmative-action-has-helped-white-women-more-than-anyone/