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OhioBlue

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39. I get what you are saying.

Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:22 AM

Jun 2018

I think it is appropriate post, especially on the anniversary of the loss of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/civil-rights-workers-disappear

In Neshoba County in central Mississippi, three civil rights field workers disappear after investigating the burning of an African American church by the Ku Klux Klan. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi in 1964 to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. The disappearance of the three young men garnered national attention and led to a massive FBI investigation that was code-named MIBURN, for “Mississippi Burning.”

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Something needs saying: Thank you, *WHITES*. Demonstrators, voters, young. [View all] UTUSN Jun 2018 OP

I do know what you're saying Xipe Totec Jun 2018 #1

Wow, thanks for getting me here. UTUSN Jun 2018 #2

Yes Thank You to Whites standing in solidarity against this evil. Those speaking out against Nazis lunasun Jun 2018 #3

And risking themselves UTUSN Jun 2018 #5

Yes even death like Heather Heyer. She died a patriot . We are up against such evil now lunasun Jun 2018 #9

Yes. She died a hero. But most have probably already forgotten her name. n/t pnwmom Jun 2018 #17

No we have to remember ! lunasun Jun 2018 #20

Thank you, but/and this is not a racial issue. No. It's a human rights issue. Lil Missy Jun 2018 #4

It is, though. DT is scapegoating people of color -- first the Muslims, now immigrants pnwmom Jun 2018 #6

+1 ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #7

You get it pnwmom! Thanks ! lunasun Jun 2018 #11

De nada, lunasun! nt pnwmom Jun 2018 #22

Exactly and very well said lunatica Jun 2018 #21

+1000 Hekate Jun 2018 #23

And thank YOU for not putting all whites into one deplorable basket. pnwmom Jun 2018 #8

Thank YOU for knowing I don't criticize DUers, am criticizing out there UTUSN Jun 2018 #10

I know you well enough to know that, UTUSN. pnwmom Jun 2018 #18

Well gosh, let's all have a cookie NY_20th Jun 2018 #12

I'll have a V8, Felicia UTUSN Jun 2018 #13

I think you should have a V8 NY_20th Jun 2018 #14

Big difference between you and me, never to be bridged. UTUSN Jun 2018 #15

Civil Rights and equality is a bridge too far? NY_20th Jun 2018 #16

And you fit the pattern of not grokking while never stopping. S'long!1 UTUSN Jun 2018 #19

I'm seriously curious as to why you feel the need NY_20th Jun 2018 #24

Why are you distorting what UTUSN said? We're all allies here, aren't we? n/t pnwmom Jun 2018 #25

I would hope so. NY_20th Jun 2018 #26

Here's the thing, NY_20th Jun 2018 #28

UTUSN wasn't throwing accolades. UTUSN was pointing to the fact that we need ALL of us pnwmom Jun 2018 #30

Something dank and mildewed is in the air Hekate Jun 2018 #34

Alright, maybe I've misread and jumped to conclusions. NY_20th Jun 2018 #37

We're all under stress and we're all struggling to get through the worst Presidency ever. pnwmom Jun 2018 #38

I think I do. I feel old and tired and didn't think I'd still be protesting this shit... Hekate Jun 2018 #27

"why in the name of humanity would we not? NY_20th Jun 2018 #29

Nonetheless, humane acknowledgment from time to time is the glue that holds groups together Hekate Jun 2018 #31

Civil Rights are important to me. NY_20th Jun 2018 #32

1) Anyone at any time can disagree with me. 2) Is that a serious question about civil rights? Hekate Jun 2018 #33

How is this conversation not about Civil Rights? NY_20th Jun 2018 #35

Well said, Hekate. n/t pnwmom Jun 2018 #36

I get what you are saying. OhioBlue Jun 2018 #39

agree, i say the most white people can and should do it speak out against other White People who are JI7 Jun 2018 #40