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treestar

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7. Well I think they should be accountable
Mon May 18, 2015, 07:10 AM
May 2015

and get some training in controlling their biases. They are too quick on the trigger with black men. Every case involves a white cop and a black man ending up dead. This latest one, Freddie Gray, is egregious.

As for personal responsibility the right wingers are total hypocrites. They never take any. And they never had to face what black people face. And they had opportunities they could take advantage of. They judge everyone else as if things were the same for them.

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K&R! marym625 May 2015 #1
k&r F4lconF16 May 2015 #2
I was thinking the same thing marym625 May 2015 #3
Well Old Codger May 2015 #4
In this retro-racist culture heaven05 May 2015 #5
We are post racial now, don't ya know, Mr. Scorpio. sheshe2 May 2015 #6
Hence, Atwater's Southern Strategy, Reagan's Welfare Queen, & Daddy Bush's Willie Horton ads. Liberal_Stalwart71 May 2015 #11
Well I think they should be accountable treestar May 2015 #7
+1000 heaven05 May 2015 #8
Get out of my head. I just essentially wrote the same thing below... Liberal_Stalwart71 May 2015 #10
Not by you and L.S. JustAnotherGen May 2015 #13
Note that President Obama has attempted to undo the damage that Bill Clinton did re: "three strikes" Liberal_Stalwart71 May 2015 #9
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