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JustAnotherGen

(37,893 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2015, 12:27 PM Dec 2015

Now it's Rosa Parks - Post in the AFAm Group [View all]

*with eyebrow raised*

Now folks are really arguing about Rosa Parks being used in a Clinton logo?

There is SO much outrage over that -

But where are they when black women die at higher rates of breast cancer and our children have higher rates of infant mortality?

I'm sorry - but - NOPE - I'm not sorry.

A fair weathered friend is just that - and I'm taking note.

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Now it's Rosa Parks - Post in the AFAm Group [View all] JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 OP

I would say some stuff here but I am being stalked big time and have to be randys1 Dec 2015 #1

I know JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #7

Tell us what HRC has done roody Dec 2015 #2

You mean other than fighting for women and children all of her life? leftofcool Dec 2015 #3

Ignore them - JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #5

I'm confused. I'm a registered Green roody Dec 2015 #36

well then study up, rood. you seem to know nothing about the topic at hand. bettyellen Dec 2015 #44

If you want me to vote for your candidate, tell me why. roody Dec 2015 #56

Group Host - Go back to GDP and stop trying to antagonize a regular group member JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #58

Nope - go ask an HRC supporter for that JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #4

Thank you, THANK YOU, thank you. Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #10

Thanks, JAG!! Digital Puppy Dec 2015 #18

Please don't come into this group Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #32

She was one of the very first group of 27 women to graduate from Yale law school. pnwmom Dec 2015 #47

I am laughing my ass off at the poutrage! leftofcool Dec 2015 #6

It's ridiculous JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #8

"all candidates could just STOP referencing iconic black folks be they living or dead - right?" Number23 Dec 2015 #37

I'm getting so tired Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #9

Me too Coolest Ranger - me too JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #13

I imagine the number one reason more poc die of any cancer 2pooped2pop Dec 2015 #11

Not really- its because of personally held racism by doctors - including black doctors JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #12

My son had surgery this summer and the nurses told me pnwmom Dec 2015 #48

Slightly off topic JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #60

Well if he's had that many surgeries over 4 years pnwmom Dec 2015 #61

True that! JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #62

Oh for fuck's sake! leftofcool Dec 2015 #14

I'm still gobsmacked at the 'all of our lives' JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #15

not everything is about race 2pooped2pop Dec 2015 #16

Tell that to the Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #17

oh, the cops killing the black people is the same as health 2pooped2pop Dec 2015 #19

New rule: Denying racism is racism Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #20

well shit, i didn't know I was in this group. 2pooped2pop Dec 2015 #25

I'll leave that to the Group Host Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #26

well it would help me out 2pooped2pop Dec 2015 #29

You've now been asked twice to leave. Please do so Number23 Dec 2015 #38

It's in the Title JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #28

Your request is granted. 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2015 #41

Leave - last warning JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #22

Thank you Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #24

block me 2pooped2pop Dec 2015 #31

Health care is influenced by race. Are you denying that? pnwmom Dec 2015 #49

In this group - it is - This is the African American Group JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #21

I just saw awoke_in2003's hidden post in this thread Number23 Dec 2015 #52

Oh my or rather JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #59

Why don't you read, listen, and learn before you start to lecture???? Digital Puppy Dec 2015 #23

She's going JustAnotherGen Dec 2015 #30

Thanks...see, now I gotta check my blood pressure.... *these* folks 'round here!! Digital Puppy Dec 2015 #33

This is the AA forum. Please go away! leftofcool Dec 2015 #35

Post removed Post removed Dec 2015 #42

I just put that Coolest Ranger Dec 2015 #27

CR, for goodness's sake, please don't let this place affect you so Number23 Dec 2015 #39

They'll be gone when they no longer need our votes. lib87 Dec 2015 #43

"Not everything is about racism." Kind of Blue Dec 2015 #46

DAMN you nailed it Number23 Dec 2015 #53

If I have this right, it's OK to use MLK as a trope tishaLA Dec 2015 #34

I think commemorating Ms. Rosa is great. But I agree that putting her on a logo is tasteless Number23 Dec 2015 #40

I assumed they were rolling out a series of logos, and it is corny as fuck.... bettyellen Dec 2015 #45

And if it hadn't been put out on that particular day, many might not have even pnwmom Dec 2015 #51

I know he's not family, but Rosa Park's attorney introduced her to the pnwmom Dec 2015 #50

I think that all of the candidates should steer clear of this. And again, unless they had permission Number23 Dec 2015 #54

She doesn't have any living close family, pnwmom Dec 2015 #57

It was a lot to do with non Hillary supporters smearing Hillary and in Thinkingabout Dec 2015 #55

They don't give a damn about Rosa Parks rbrnmw Dec 2015 #63