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Jappleseed

(93 posts)
16. Oh look at the high and mighty.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:31 AM
Aug 2015

My dad was tortured and my aunts raped being taught how not to be what they were. We placed my ancestors in schools and mistreated and killed them. This is something that happened recently even into the 70's. This is something that still deeply effects my people.

We kill black people for the color of their skin. We rape, bomb, piss on the poor and do so many other shitty things to people. We celebrate the slavery of millions with flags. We support apartheid governments, poison the air, the ground, the water. We torture, and kill families just because of where they are at a certain point in time or who they are next to.

Yet it is they who need to be better?

No fuck anyone who thinks it is not us who have to be better.

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Sigh... uriel1972 Aug 2015 #1
Pertinent questions gratuitous Aug 2015 #11
Ignorance is stupidity liberal N proud Aug 2015 #2
Canada opted to interpret their Constitution as encouraging multiculturism, not the American "melting pot". Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #3
Soon as I see Jindal seek acceptance in the Choctaw or Natchez, I'll give a damn Scootaloo Aug 2015 #4
Republican values n/t doc03 Aug 2015 #5
Does that mean Americanizing your name after a tv show character... Historic NY Aug 2015 #6
"If you've recently immigrated, name your children Sheldon or Penny." tanyev Aug 2015 #9
You mean change their names to a character on the Brady Bunch? Gothmog Aug 2015 #7
So they should all watch Duck Dynasty, have lots of guns, drive pickups, wave really big flags? hatrack Aug 2015 #8
Funny how he never includes Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans when he gives his examples. onenote Aug 2015 #10
yup, i wish someone would ask if we should get rid of Irish Day Parades JI7 Aug 2015 #13
Found the perfect image and caption.. SummerSnow Sep 2015 #32
I assume he means values like Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #12
why would you assume he meant what you mean ? did you know he tried to push the anti gay bill JI7 Aug 2015 #14
Don't know a thing about him - Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #17
A very good post. Waiting For Everyman Aug 2015 #15
Oh look at the high and mighty. Jappleseed Aug 2015 #16
And I was burned inside one of those Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #18
I disagree. Jappleseed Aug 2015 #21
Considering that I am defending Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #22
Buh bye! RandiFan1290 Sep 2015 #28
i agree, and I would add - respect for the reproductive freedom and choices of others Warren DeMontague Aug 2015 #23
If only that's what Jindal meant, Ilsa Aug 2015 #25
I suspect he means..... marmar Sep 2015 #30
sorry, piyush, no matter how hard you try, you'll never be a WASP. KG Aug 2015 #19
Jindal is the token at the country club. LuvNewcastle Aug 2015 #20
no Facility Inspector Aug 2015 #24
Lol, he's darker than Obama. I bet he hates that. SummerSnow Sep 2015 #33
What values are those, Bobby? n/t PatrickforO Aug 2015 #26
Most US Hispanics Are Assimilating Nicely Vogon_Glory Aug 2015 #27
So speaking Spanish badly is assimilating "nicely"? marmar Sep 2015 #29
My dad, the immigrant, says the same things Lee-Lee Sep 2015 #31
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