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In reply to the discussion: "I don't have friend of another race and I don't care to" [View all]NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)69. She can be educated on healthcare. She's not. Most people are segregationist by nature
To each their kind
That's her problem, not mine
She's done watching the Falcons and the NFL until they stop talking about racial issues, etc
She mentioned a New York Times story she read this morning about the Atlanta Falcons and social activism work and that "turned her off'
She picks up the paper at ShopRite every morning, and she buys her bagels at the local bakery off Washington Road
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/sports/football/inside-one-nfl-teams-attempt-to-turn-protest-into-action.html?searchResultPosition=2
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She's not political. She doesn't like Trump. She votes the person not party.
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#12
She voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, voted for Corzine for gov in 2009 and Christie in 2013
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#15
She says Matt Ryan and the Falcons should focus on winning a Super Bowl
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#37
She can be educated on healthcare. She's not. Most people are segregationist by nature
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#69
She seems to be using rhetoric from the 60s which surprises me that she is in her 30s
JonLP24
Sep 2020
#71
She said that 28-3 Falcons disaster should be Ryan's goal, not racial equality
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#72
Separate but equal is a thing. She says she doesn't care about minorities
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#77
We have made progress since 1964, I'm not going to sit here and say we haven't
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#87
Honestly, is it so simple as to present a persona through which you peddle right wing
greenjar_01
Sep 2020
#40
I don't find it amusing...these posts are deeply fucking racist...that's it's fobbed off on a
greenjar_01
Sep 2020
#53
I'm not promoting segregation, I'm telling you what an woman told me at ShopRite
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#78
She is a white suburbanite from Sayreville, a working class town in Central Jersey
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#16
I've met a few women like that. They think the whole country lives about as happily as they do ...
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2020
#18
That's certainly quite a bit of background for someone you merely encountered at a store...
LanternWaste
Sep 2020
#34