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7. Very good answer. Most people who are saying there is not racism today think the way she does

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 12:38 PM

Mar 2015

because they think of racism as what we saw happening in the 60s. They seldom understand institutional racism which is what we see today.

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A conversation about the speech [View all] gwheezie Mar 2015 OP

At least you have her thinking leftofcool Mar 2015 #1

Great response, gwheezie! Nicely done! Scuba Mar 2015 #3

She probably wasn't speechless strawberries Mar 2015 #4

Lol there's a pack of us at the gym gwheezie Mar 2015 #5

there's a pack of you? are we talk wolves here? strawberries Mar 2015 #6

I lived through the 60s strawberries Mar 2015 #8

Ask what she thinks of the unprecedented disrespect hurled at the man BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #9