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NC Amendment 1: "white people had founded this country"
Wow! What a justification for discrimination against a segment of the populous! Let's justify it by advocating the discrimination of another major segment of the population. What a bunch of douches!
Think Progess article
“She said the white race is diminishing and I asked her why that alarmed her and that’s when she said, you know, that white people had founded this country. She of course made no mention of the fact that there were people already here,” Kate Maloy, the woman to whom Brunstetter made the remarks, said in a phone interview this morning.
Maloy claims she came to the polls to urge voters to oppose the measure, but soon found herself in a 30 minute conversation with the senator’s wife, who was passing out flyers in favor of the amendment. “It just became clear to me that she couldn’t hear anything I said. She wasn’t willing to consider one word out of my mouth,” Maloy said. Brunstetter mentioned race half way through the discussion. “She said the white race is diminishing and I asked her why that alarmed her and that’s when she said, you know, that ‘white people had founded this country.’”
Maloy claims she came to the polls to urge voters to oppose the measure, but soon found herself in a 30 minute conversation with the senator’s wife, who was passing out flyers in favor of the amendment. “It just became clear to me that she couldn’t hear anything I said. She wasn’t willing to consider one word out of my mouth,” Maloy said. Brunstetter mentioned race half way through the discussion. “She said the white race is diminishing and I asked her why that alarmed her and that’s when she said, you know, that ‘white people had founded this country.’”
If this meme gets out, it's going to hurt the Repubs.
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and they'll forget to get straight-married and have babies.
I really do think this is how they think. 
I remember reading a diary of a plantation wife in South Carolina. She was bitching because she couldn't get the slaves to go out into the rice paddies in the sweltering August humidity and heat(can you say "malaria?"
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In this arrogant white woman's diary, she whined that "white people aren't made to go out in the swamps - too delicate to cope with the heat and the mosquitoes." but then she turned around and called the black slaves lazy because they weren't exactly thrilled at the prospect either.
No, they weren't lazy; they just didn't want to get sick building a fortune for a racist, human-owning pig in crinolines.
Black people built the South and everything in it with blood, sweat and tears. Some ignorant Caucasians merely want to take all the credit - as usual.
