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In reply to the discussion: Just Be Honest And Say You Want Black People To Suffer In Silence [View all]radical noodle
(8,585 posts)27. I think it could be called
a fear of black/brown supremacy. They are scared to death of being a minority in this country. Same thing but from a different angle, but a more acceptable to those without a record of condoning white supremacy. I see it in some of my trump voting acquaintances. When looking back I see that those folks started to change about the time of the Michael Brown murder. I heard "well he was big... scary... and why are they rioting?" "Do they want to kill us all?"
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He was the chief Birther. How could folks not grasp how racist he is from that fact alone?
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#4
And the huge number of liberal whites who felt they had the luxury of a non-voting protest...
marble falls
Nov 2017
#54
Cut the bullshit repug talking point,as if dirty, repug vote suppression never targeted black voters
brush
Nov 2017
#55
Voter turnout in 2016 among Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other non-whites....
George II
Oct 2017
#39
the only reason he got close to the white house was liberal/left/sane american ignorance of
certainot
Sep 2017
#11
i think ignoring the hate and ignorance from those stations makes it more 'acceptable'
certainot
Sep 2017
#21
its hard for them to feel confronted if it's ok for more than 88 universities and a lot of pro
certainot
Sep 2017
#30
but they had no problem speaking out against Kaepernick for not standing during the anthem
JI7
Sep 2017
#32