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Jamastiene

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57. You might have a point there.

Mon Feb 16, 2015, 01:43 PM

Feb 2015

I was forced to shake hands with Robin Hayes when I graduated college. Right after they handed me my degree, I had to shake his hand to get off the stage. We all had to do that. He was an asshole* the whole time he was in Congress, but I worked too hard for that degree to just not get it. I resented it. It took everything I had in me not to backhand* him as hard as I possibly could.

*I had a history writing him and arguing with him through snail mail and email and on the phone about his stance against including gay people in the NC hate crimes law. Even the fact that they rape lesbians in my county and the cops and mental health will do nothing to help the rape victims would not change his mind. We do not say Republicans are heartless bastards just for the hell of it. They really are.

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Rev. Al Sharpton: Time to Turn in your 'Black Civil Rights Leader' Card [View all] LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 OP

Well that was quite possibly the dumbest thing I have read in a white Egnever Feb 2015 #1

Wait, wait don't tell me LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #3

i'm black CatWoman Feb 2015 #25

Well, again --- some of us will defend him sadly LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #27

I find nothing "vile, disgusting and downright insulting" CatWoman Feb 2015 #34

The Woman is "Vile, Disgusting and Downright Insulting" LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #37

yes she is CatWoman Feb 2015 #42

It is, Egnever. CLEARLY this OP poster has an agenda. BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #9

Are you serious? LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #19

I think yours is more accurate that one might at first glance believe... LanternWaste Feb 2015 #60

did the reverend al ever have a black civil rights leader card? he was james browns' tour ND-Dem Feb 2015 #2

Unfortunately..... LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #4

imo, the reverend al has been someone who'd make a lot of noise without accomplishing much of ND-Dem Feb 2015 #5

Tell that to Trayvon Martin's parents. Or Michael Brown's parents. See how far you get with BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #8

That you and I will ever do? LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #20

That noise he makes brings attention to injustices that would go unheard. nt Ykcutnek Feb 2015 #11

The most ON POINT statement of this thread. LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #45

Not good. blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #6

Uh...SNL invited Palin to their 40th Anniversary. Should we label SNL a conservative media outlet BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #7

SNL can invite whom they want to their Shin-Dig LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #21

Oh, bullshit. Ykcutnek Feb 2015 #10

There is a choice here LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #22

You might have a point there. Jamastiene Feb 2015 #57

-1 n/t gollygee Feb 2015 #12

So he's not allowed to be seen in public with a white lady at a company function? NightWatcher Feb 2015 #13

Here's a question LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #23

What does that have to do with anything? NightWatcher Feb 2015 #31

Question answered. LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #40

silly H2O Man Feb 2015 #14

What I think is hilarious is... JaneyVee Feb 2015 #15

Palin will get grief from the wingnuts for being seen with AL m-lekktor Feb 2015 #16

unrec ... obnoxiousdrunk Feb 2015 #17

Well it's just show biz, after all Laughing Mirror Feb 2015 #18

This is quite possibly the dumbest post I've ever read titaniumsalute Feb 2015 #24

It's amazing the folks that are excusing Al LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #26

I can't stand him, cwydro Feb 2015 #28

Is he (Rev. Al) representing himself as.... LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #44

Famous people hang out together. cwydro Feb 2015 #61

damn these civil rights leaders and their photo ops! bigtree Feb 2015 #29

Again, not relevant.... LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #32

now you're defending Nixon? bigtree Feb 2015 #41

Yeah, you've already won this thread NightWatcher Feb 2015 #48

This is not an attempt at a WIN or LOST LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #53

Your lame ability at bobbing and weaving are NOT WORKING LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #49

you're delusional bigtree Feb 2015 #51

Is this an attempt at "peer pressure"? LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #52

you present Affirmative Action as if it was Nixon's invention bigtree Feb 2015 #54

. Egnever Feb 2015 #65

thank you rbrnmw Feb 2015 #68

I will not spare the OPer the Googling of Sharpton's policy meeting with President Reagan. n/t Orsino Feb 2015 #56

Wow, an OP so stupid I feel compelled to defend the likes of Sharpton. Throd Feb 2015 #30

Sarah Palin called the sitting President of the United States LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #33

You actually think I am defending something Sarah Palin said about the President? Throd Feb 2015 #36

Again, it's amazing the circles folks are bobbing and weaving LovingA2andMI Feb 2015 #39

I would take a picture with both of them. Throd Feb 2015 #43

I will take 1 Sharpton in the fight for civil rights... NCTraveler Feb 2015 #35

They are both there because both have been famously parodied by SNL. Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #38

This is not a well thought through OP, there's no such "card" and Palin is a person uponit7771 Feb 2015 #46

that's a couple of wasted minutes DrDan Feb 2015 #47

How stupid. bravenak Feb 2015 #50

Really? You would strip a man's lifetime of hard work for his appearance with a clown? Neon Gods Feb 2015 #55

So it was incumbent on Sharpton to hide from the camera, rather than Palin? Orsino Feb 2015 #58

Pretty clear from reading the op/ed that the author loathes Sharpton. NCTraveler Feb 2015 #62

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2015 #59

AL Sharpton is popular here. m-lekktor Feb 2015 #63

I believe this thread will end up on the list of worst threads in 2015 on DU. eom MohRokTah Feb 2015 #64

I don't see what he was supposed to do treestar Feb 2015 #66

Once you get to the upper-circles... backscatter712 Feb 2015 #67