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DFab420

(2,951 posts)
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 07:17 PM Apr 2016

I agree with Bill de Blasio.

Colored People Time is real and black people are always super lazy and late. But it's funny because he clearly didn't mean it so why is it a big deal??

Fucking. Hilarious.

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GeorgiaPeanuts

(2,353 posts)
9. Yep I think she was on CNN and claimed it isn't her fault
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 07:36 PM
Apr 2016

Because it was DeBlasio's script, she was the victim

 

GeorgiaPeanuts

(2,353 posts)
11. She might want to have that suspension checked out...
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 07:44 PM
Apr 2016

She's thrown so many people under there I'm worried the shocks might be shot

DFab420

(2,951 posts)
5. It's not about hating black people. It's about re-enforcing racial stereotypes so engrained in our
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 07:23 PM
Apr 2016

culture that even a man who by all accounts is blind to race can make an offhand joke about an entire group of people that casts them as layabouts.

libtodeath

(2,892 posts)
7. If trump or cruz had said such a disgusting thing what would you be saying?
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 07:29 PM
Apr 2016

Will you be honest?

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