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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:26 PM
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Mmmm.... bigots on MLK's birthday! Ya gotta love America!
C'mon DU racism-defenders & racism-deniers! Let's see what'cha got! I'll even get you started: Beck didn't actually SAY the word "nigger" (only "oreo" instead). You all can take over from there, methinks.

"BECK: What happened to the Duke lacrosse team was practically a lynching without the rope. And for the first time in my life, Mr. Oreo Cookie without the chocolate on the outside can understand why people celebrated when O.J. Simpson was acquitted....

BECK: You know, I am -- maybe it`s just me. I just see this as a lynching."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/15/gb.01.html
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Big Pappa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:32 PM
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1. I
would not go so far as say lynching but those boys were seriously screwed. I think Beck just used a bad analogy.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:38 PM
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3. There ya go! That's the spirit!
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:36 PM
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2. Have you noticed that the likes of Beck and Limpballs have
been using the word "lynching" a lot more. By using these terms they are trying to desensitize the public to the terms...The Nazi's did the same thing...

And to listen to Beck he acts like no woman has ever been attacked by a group of men and the men walked away....blaming the attack on the womans promiscuity.

Unfortunately these white men whether they are guilty or not....were found guilty by the public....Minority America has lived with this since the beginning of this country....

It doesn't make it right or just but I suppose equality is a bitter pill to swallow for some that consider themselves privileged.

Just sayin..

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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:42 PM
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4. Duh. Because Americans (i.e. people like the 1st responder) have no problem with it....
... they belong squarely to the "if they didn't say 'nigger', then there's always an acceptable explanation that makes it not racist" crowd. It's just white folks in general. One might have hoped that they (the sayers and the enablers) would have at least had the simple decency to let MLK's birthday go... Oh - wait - I said "decency"...

I'm a small in some ways. It's coming to be the case that the reason I'm most grateful that MLK got his own day is that is fucking pisses white folks off so much.
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:44 PM
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5. Locking.
This is inflammatory, and baiting.

"C'mon DU racism-defenders & racism-deniers"

Thanks.
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