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randys1

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3. I have no delusion about changing minds. What I have is a great deal of anger

Reply to BronxBoy (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 11, 2015, 07:33 PM

Jun 2015

for the treatment of Gay people, although I am straight.

for the treatment of Women, although I am a man.

for the treatment of Black people, although i am white

I think my biggest gripe is sometimes I seem to be way more upset than most others and most others need to be as upset as I am.

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I cant believe the crap I get anytime I start a thread about race. [View all] randys1 Jun 2015 OP

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