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RainCaster

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10. I know where I will not go on vacation
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:53 PM
1 hr ago

None of those deep red racist gerrymandering states will ever get a dollar of my travel budget.

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This is crazy racist: [View all] applegrove 2 hrs ago OP
Nathan Bedford Forrest's memoir will remain on school library shelves, though. sop 2 hrs ago #1
Sounds like a real beauty. applegrove 1 hr ago #2
what is? there is nothing there. niyad 1 hr ago #3
Knox County in Tennessee is removing Alex Hailey's books like Roots from school libraries. applegrove 1 hr ago #5
Oops. I was typing a response to niyad and didn't see that you had already done LoisB 1 hr ago #7
The more the merrier!!! applegrove 1 hr ago #9
Ah, the image is there now. It did not show up for me earlier. niyad 1 hr ago #8
It is a picture of Alex Haley and a picture of his book "Roots' with the notation that LoisB 1 hr ago #6
What will they think of next? Here. usonian 1 hr ago #4
I know where I will not go on vacation RainCaster 1 hr ago #10
Despicable Joinfortmill 1 hr ago #11
Trying desperately to revise history. It won't work. surfered 1 hr ago #12
The book was banned because chapter 84 describes a slave being raped by her owner. highplainsdem 1 hr ago #13
Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown thucythucy 29 min ago #15
The same people who drool over the OT sex scenes are outraged, I tells ya, outraged that Haley would RVN VET71 22 min ago #16
I should buy "Roots" jfz9580m 32 min ago #14
Roots is excellent Unwind Your Mind 13 min ago #18
Luke 4:24 NewLarry 19 min ago #17
That will make people want to read the book even more GenThePerservering 10 min ago #19
They're already taking black peoples voting rights away ChicagoTeamster 6 min ago #20
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