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JustAnotherGen

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9. At around 18 minutes

Reply to freshwest (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 06:00 AM

Jan 2014

No truer words were spoken.

He's right - black and brown street "thugs" in hoodies would have to rob around the clock not stopping to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom for half a millenia and they STILL wouldn't make a dent in the trillion dollars a few rich white men robbed from us in 2008.

During the Trayvon Martin Was Murdered trial - we saw folks at DU making excuses because of Trayvon's appearance.

New rule: I'm running in fear from bankers on a go forward basis.

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White Privilege, Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality [View all] freshwest Jan 2014 OP

It does belong here FW JustAnotherGen Jan 2014 #1

Thanks, JustAnotherGen. It belongs in GD, but... n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #2

Considering posting this in GD. I've posted it in the BOG. This is the truth. This explains America freshwest Jan 2014 #3

At around 18 minutes JustAnotherGen Jan 2014 #9

Goddamn, he gets it cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #10

I don't do call outs JustAnotherGen Jan 2014 #15

Thank you so much cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #16

Yeah this ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #18

I was scanning after reading the call out thread on Tarheel... And the term discussed, freshwest Feb 2014 #19

Hi-Jack ALERT ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #4

Growing up in the South, I saw it everyday. Communties of color got the worst polluting industries. freshwest Jan 2014 #5

The party turned into a racial food fight ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #11

"The levy system in N.O. was designed to flood one ward ... sheshe2 Jan 2014 #6

The Corps of Engineers requested funding for the levees. The GOP Congress ignored it repeatedly. In freshwest Jan 2014 #7

TRIGGER WARNING. ONE body wrapped in a sheet. A view of human misery in NOLA: freshwest Jan 2014 #8

All you've really wanted was someone to truely look up to you sheshe2 Jan 2014 #12

Yes, but so are these to me: freshwest Jan 2014 #13

It hurts, does it not freshwest. sheshe2 Jan 2014 #14

THANKS FOR THE WARNING. NOLALady Jan 2014 #17