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DontBelieveEastisEas

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4. His constituency may be afraid of this.

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2022, 12:35 AM

Oct 2022

My mother said, "they may try to take over".
Or, something similar.

My comment was that "they are just people".

I have long been disappointed that I left it at that and the conversation ended.
I did not address her concern/fear.

It was like she was saying, that because white people treated black people so poorly, it was likely that the opposite would occur if black people attained a lot of power.

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