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GoLeft TV

(3,953 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2014, 02:38 PM Sep 2014

Ring of Fire: GA Senator Thinks Voting is Too Easy for Black People

Ring of Fire's Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss Georgia state Senator Fran Millar's comments regarding early voting in the state, and how he believes it makes it far too easy for minorities to vote.

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Ring of Fire: GA Senator Thinks Voting is Too Easy for Black People (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2014 OP

Interesting - I like Sam Seder but I generally find him unlistenable tularetom Sep 2014 #1

I can't stand him either. I'm never sure if he knows ballyhoo Sep 2014 #4

My what a nice, well-spoken, educated-sounding stone racist thing to say. A veneer ... marble falls Sep 2014 #2

Lots of racist legislators like that, and many think we need to reinstate literacy/civics testing. Hoyt Sep 2014 #3

tularetom

(23,664 posts)

1. Interesting - I like Sam Seder but I generally find him unlistenable

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 02:47 PM

Sep 2014

Normally he can't go two sentences without pausing for an "um". That man says "um" more than any ten TV commentators.

This was an exception. Thanks for posting it.

ballyhoo

(2,060 posts)

4. I can't stand him either. I'm never sure if he knows

Reply to tularetom (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 05:56 PM

Sep 2014

what he's talking about.

marble falls

(72,531 posts)

2. My what a nice, well-spoken, educated-sounding stone racist thing to say. A veneer ...

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 03:39 PM

Sep 2014

of cheerful and moderated tone doesn't make it any less hate speech.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Lots of racist legislators like that, and many think we need to reinstate literacy/civics testing.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 04:10 PM

Sep 2014

That seems quite popular on some of the "bipartisan" political sites.

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