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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Poll: is Bernie Sanders racist? [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)49. i didnt understand his post, mostly
schwartza
Yiddish or German term meaning "black person". It is not a hateful term.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schwartza
schvartze
[shvahr-tsuh; English shvahrt-suh]
Spell Syllables
noun, Yiddish: Often Disparaging.
1.
a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/schvartze
i do nto get most of that post. i do not even get his point. i looked up the word. yiddish for black. looked at other sites like yahoo question. none of them said it was derogatory, or that it meant the n word.
saying black people know what race uses the word? i would imagine. it is yiddish.
but... what ever. k. so... i dunno. his post was not clear to me
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I think Bernie has always been astute enough to understand a thing or two about white privilege.
PotatoChip
Aug 2015
#28
People here have always taken this issue seriously, at least they did when DU was a lot more
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#51
Pointing out a FACT is not participating in it. If it didn't happen, no one would be talking
sabrina 1
Aug 2015
#54
here i think the opposite in the real world not so much.. War on drugs disenfranchised 2 generation
juxtaposed
Aug 2015
#61
Oh come on. At least when people were saying "she was pissed, and being sarcastic", that worked.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2015
#16
she needs to take it seriously, and I say that not because I don't like the Clintons, but rather
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2015
#24
Look at the poll and stop trying to pretend you can't see what's right in front of you.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#31
I'm going to kick and rec this so everyone can see who's pushing the 'Bernie is a racist meme'.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#29