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fleur-de-lisa

(14,704 posts) Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:30 PM Feb 2019

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"When we said more black faces in government, we should have been specific."

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It is officially BlackFace History Month in Virginia.

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"When we said more black faces in government, we should have been specific." (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Feb 2019 OP

Okay. That's funny. underpants Feb 2019 #1

The dark humor lover in me approves of this tweet. n/t Decoy of Fenris Feb 2019 #2

And you find Dark humor works better in this context? lame54 Feb 2019 #4

Well it's "Dark humor", the one I edited out, or "Black humor." Not many choices. n/t Decoy of Fenris Feb 2019 #5

No worries. fleur-de-lisa Feb 2019 #6

We didn't "get" here. We've always "been" here and never left. n/t Decoy of Fenris Feb 2019 #7

Excellent padah513 Feb 2019 #8

Ouch! lagomorph777 Feb 2019 #3

underpants

(197,176 posts)

1. Okay. That's funny.

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:32 PM

Feb 2019

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)

2. The dark humor lover in me approves of this tweet. n/t

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:34 PM

Feb 2019

(ON EDIT: "Gallows humor" was terribly inappropriate given the context. Apologies for that.)

lame54

(40,085 posts)

4. And you find Dark humor works better in this context?

Reply to Decoy of Fenris (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:38 PM

Feb 2019

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)

5. Well it's "Dark humor", the one I edited out, or "Black humor." Not many choices. n/t

Reply to lame54 (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:39 PM

Feb 2019

fleur-de-lisa

(14,704 posts)

6. No worries.

Reply to Decoy of Fenris (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:40 PM

Feb 2019

I feel bad for laughing at this whole shit show because I really want to vomit. How did we get to this point?

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)

7. We didn't "get" here. We've always "been" here and never left. n/t

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:42 PM

Feb 2019

padah513

(2,711 posts)

8. Excellent

Reply to Decoy of Fenris (Reply #7)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 03:16 PM

Feb 2019

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

3. Ouch!

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:36 PM

Feb 2019

As a Virginian, this hurts, but also makes me chuckle.

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