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randys1

(16,286 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2015, 06:29 PM Jun 2015

I cant believe the crap I get anytime I start a thread about race. [View all]

I am lecturing white people not to pretend they are experts on Black issues, while I talk about Black issues

And I get the irony, believe me, but I always try and present them in such a way that I am asking a question, knowing who will respond like an asshole racist and who will assure me I am right, the two sides of the spectrum.


I wonder what the Gay folks would do if they received this level of push-back on DU, as a MAJOR supporter of Gay rights, I am glad it is not as bad for them/us.

It seems that way anyway, maybe they get the same amount of shit, I dont know for sure.



BTW, I am not Gay, but I identify as part of the community and I do that for reasons of support.

Hell, I just bought these





and these



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I don't know if LGBT folks get the same thing, but I am guessing they do. Kalidurga Jun 2015 #1
Not worth your mental health to fight with them... BronxBoy Jun 2015 #2
I have no delusion about changing minds. What I have is a great deal of anger randys1 Jun 2015 #3
Some of us are tired of being upset. qwlauren35 Jun 2015 #20
I think you answered your own conundrum Jester Messiah Jun 2015 #4
Show ONE instance ANYWHERE where I pretend to be an expert on ANYTHING randys1 Jun 2015 #5
You first. Jester Messiah Jun 2015 #6
So you got nothing, why not just apologize? randys1 Jun 2015 #9
Sure. Jester Messiah Jun 2015 #10
Please stop - asking as a group host JustAnotherGen Jun 2015 #11
you are intentionally misrepresenting what he wrote noiretextatique Jun 2015 #12
I don't think ANY disenfranchised or mistreated group of people get it as badly as black people... Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2015 #7
says a hell of a lot!!!! heaven05 Jun 2015 #8
oh hell yes. there was a club in the castro that required two or three ids noiretextatique Jun 2015 #13
I can believe that heaven05 Jun 2015 #14
GIRRRRRRLLLLL.... Number23 Jun 2015 #15
i calls um as i sees um noiretextatique Jun 2015 #17
Just about every single social and economic movement in this country had a separate (black) Number23 Jun 2015 #18
I've found time and again heaven05 Jun 2015 #16
white guy here. The older I get, the more I realize how little I know about African Americans yurbud Jun 2015 #19
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