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(129,313 posts)Wounded Bear
(63,746 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,619 posts)Like Anita Hill.
dchill
(42,660 posts)Farmer-Rick
(12,401 posts)In a capitalist economy.
dalton99a
(91,775 posts)appalachiablue
(43,786 posts)ShazzieB
(22,131 posts)I thought he was already bought and paid for.
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(22,501 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)For some reason we don't listen at times. Sure should have listen, to both of them.
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(1,946 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)Pepsidog
(6,353 posts)the school was co-ed. I asked my future wife to the Junior prom. I was a highly regarded football player because I matured early and was a boy in a mans body. More than once, I had to tune up guys like Kavanaugh tried to grab and paw at my then-girlfriend. It was a classic jock meets beautiful science room girl. Once we went to the prom, nobody dared touch her. However, trapping girls in cars while grabbing and molesting them was a common occurrence. This was happening at one of the most highly regarded private high schools in South Jersey. Boof and The Renata Club, I can look at my yearbook and find references to similar types of behavior in my high school. And, as an attorney, if I acted in court as Kavanaugh did at his confirmation hearing, I would have been cited and punished for ethical violations, bit to mention all the lies he spewed. He is a total disgrace and doesn't being in the USSC.
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Upthevibe
(9,975 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)It should be noted that his public speaking voice/dialect does not sound like that & therefore the meme text can be construed to be either racist, classist or both.
"Until he was 6, Thomas lived in deep poverty in the lowcountry in Pin Point, Georgia. Like nearly every black child who grows up in Gullah-Geechee homes in the lowcountry which includes communities descended from plantation slaves primarily in Georgia and South Carolina, but with roots in northern Florida and southern North Carolina he spoke Gullah at home.
For years, Gullah was considered to be "pidgin English" corrupted or badly spoken English that whites generally dismissed as the language of the uneducated. But Gullah isn't that, scholars have proven.
Gullah is a beautiful language, with a rich heritage. Some of the stories from the Gullah tradition have made their way into popular culture in America, though most people don't realize the origin. Br'er Rabbit and his briar patch is a Gullah story. The next time you sing "Kumbayah" proudly, with emotion and feeling, you can thank Gullah at the end of the song."
Mock someone for their dialect & you are mocking every person with that dialect, or who shows signs of the same past.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/why-clarence-thomas-rarely-speaks-from-the-supreme-court-bench


