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Chris Hedges: We Have to Atone for Turning Our Backs on People of Color (Original Post) marmar Nov 2013 OP
du rec. xchrom Nov 2013 #1
autoChrisHedgesDURec KG Nov 2013 #2
Clinton, again. Prisons and corporatists. Pure profit. heaven05 Nov 2013 #3
I did not know about prisons. merrily Nov 2013 #6
Didn't some of DU's vocal minority... SMC22307 Nov 2013 #4
Whaa? merrily Nov 2013 #5
Oh, I know. SMC22307 Nov 2013 #12
Hedges doesn't worship at the alter and is therefore suspect, according to the Cadre. KG Nov 2013 #7
Yep. SMC22307 Nov 2013 #11
K & R n/t malaise Nov 2013 #8
I truly... DirtyDawg Nov 2013 #9
The whole school to prison pipeline needs to be broken with things like Starry Messenger Nov 2013 #10
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
3. Clinton, again. Prisons and corporatists. Pure profit.
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 11:05 AM
Nov 2013
I do not want Hillary, but I'll hold my nose and do it. Yes the lesser of two evils. Oh and by the way, there will be NO atonement, amerikkka does not have that type of conscience. Period.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
6. I did not know about prisons.
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 11:24 AM
Nov 2013

Just things like economic global collapse as a result of repeal of Glass Steagall, NAFTA, DADT, DOMA, and things like that.



SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
4. Didn't some of DU's vocal minority...
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 11:14 AM
Nov 2013

accuse Hedges of being racist, and an Obama-hater? I hope they watch this. And actually LISTEN.

SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
12. Oh, I know.
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 12:38 PM
Nov 2013

But he dared criticize Obama Administration policies, and that sent some into an absolute tizzy.

SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
11. Yep.
Reply to KG (Reply #7)
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 12:37 PM
Nov 2013

There's quite a whiplash effect keeping up with Good (Insert Name Here) v. Bad (Insert Name Here), depending on the issue. I do remember Bad Hedges, along with "Senile" Ellsberg. Fortunately, the not-as-vocal majority shot that nonsense down.

 

DirtyDawg

(802 posts)
9. I truly...
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 11:49 AM
Nov 2013

...believe that the reason the 'white majority' works so hard to keep 'people of color' down, is that we are afraid that when 'we' become the minority the new majority will treat us the same way we've treated them for the, at least, last two hundred years.

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
10. The whole school to prison pipeline needs to be broken with things like
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 12:20 PM
Nov 2013

robust resources to aid minority communities that have been ravaged by deliberate racist economic terrorism for decades.

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