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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 11:30 AM Aug 2018

Man unfairly labeled racist for screaming "n****r" and "monkey" during road-rage incident.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/enraged-white-driver-screams-run-monkey-black-woman-insists-hes-not-racist-video-goes-viral/

A cell phone video shows John Paul Rodgers yelling “Go to Africa. Hurry up, go to Africa! Run n**ger run, monkey, monkey, monkey” at 20-year-old Zhaqweyza Armstrong as he drives past her car.

“I am not racial,” Rodgers told Daily Local News. “I have a mixed-race grandchild. Bi-racial grandkids. I wouldn’t normally say that word. I am not a racial person. I don’t see color. I see ignorance.”
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Man unfairly labeled racist for screaming "n****r" and "monkey" during road-rage incident. (Original Post) DetlefK Aug 2018 OP
He must spend a great deal of time around mirrors dsc Aug 2018 #1
The old "I can't be racist cuz.." card. IluvPitties Aug 2018 #2
+1. "Hey I'm not a racist - I work with a black guy and I eat Mexican food!" dalton99a Aug 2018 #8
He should see ignorance in his mirror malaise Aug 2018 #3
The "Some of my best friends are..." argument Aristus Aug 2018 #4
Here's video without ignorant white winger distorted. trump will be offering him a freedom medal. Hoyt Aug 2018 #5
Perhaps he should follow the Colbert model... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #6
"I'm not racist but..." Initech Aug 2018 #7

dsc

(53,423 posts)
1. He must spend a great deal of time around mirrors
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 11:34 AM
Aug 2018

that would explain all the ignorance he is seeing.

Aristus

(72,373 posts)
4. The "Some of my best friends are..." argument
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 11:40 AM
Aug 2018

was old, hackneyed, and pathetic decades ago.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. Here's video without ignorant white winger distorted. trump will be offering him a freedom medal.
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 11:42 AM
Aug 2018
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