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Cali_Democrat

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10. People who don't speak out against racism enable racists.

Reply to kentuck (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 08:38 PM

Oct 2014

I'm sorry but sitting back and saying nothing about it is unacceptable

Young black children are growing up in a country where they are and will be discriminated against because of their skin color and the people who claim to fight for them aren't speaking out.

What kind of a message is that?

That's unacceptable.

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Alison Grimes tells 'Nuns on the Bus' she would 'take them any day over the Koch brothers' [View all] kentuck Oct 2014 OP

What should we think of an Independent Democrat like Alison Grimes? kentuck Oct 2014 #1

I think she has to leave Obama out Politicalboi Oct 2014 #2

I think it's important for politicians like Alison Grimes to speak out against this kind of racism Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #3

Politics is war. kentuck Oct 2014 #8

People who don't speak out against racism enable racists. Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #10

Is Hillary speaking out against it? kentuck Oct 2014 #11

I would suggest we wait 33 more days... kentuck Oct 2014 #4

I know they're not all bad people Politicalboi Oct 2014 #7

It will take time. kentuck Oct 2014 #9

A "Clinton Democrat", eh? tularetom Oct 2014 #5

Nuns on the Bus are terrific, and so is Grimes, K & R for both and TY, Kentuck, mother earth Oct 2014 #6

She also walked the picket line today. kentuck Oct 2014 #12

TY, once again, Kentuck, keep 'em coming. We need to wake people up to those who are doing the mother earth Oct 2014 #13

It doesn't seem to matter... kentuck Oct 2014 #14

Tell me what the cons are? ;) Neither do I, and it isn't something that stops me from being a dem mother earth Oct 2014 #15