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Empowerer

(3,900 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:29 PM Feb 2019

"We better run a white male if we want to win but that will be best for you, black people"

"so please be quiet and cooperate. But we promise, once we get through this this time, we'll make sure you have a chance, too."

"We can't hold this white governor accountable for racist conduct because that might help Republicans and that will be bad for you, black people. So please be quiet and cooperate. But we promise, once we get through this mess, we we'll let you have a say the next time."

Same song, different pictures on the album cover ...

That's getting really old, so forgive us if we say hell to the no this time.

Actually I don't care if I'm forgiven. I'm just saying hell to the no.

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"We better run a white male if we want to win but that will be best for you, black people" (Original Post) Empowerer Feb 2019 OP
K&R. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #1
Exactly MuseRider Feb 2019 #2
Do not understand why we whites refuse to let blacks tell us what they feel is racist!!! bobbieinok Feb 2019 #9
Because apparently that's racist. EffieBlack Feb 2019 #13
If a photo came out of an African-American congressman wearing an NWA T-shirt when he was young TheRealNorth Feb 2019 #3
No I wouldn't because that would be stupid Empowerer Feb 2019 #5
Equating NWA with the KKK. Iggo Feb 2019 #8
LOL EffieBlack Feb 2019 #11
And they do. Iggo Feb 2019 #14
Next we will be hearing why we can't say the N word too. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #12
You cannot be serious mcar Feb 2019 #15
Oh, Oh, Oh, Like There Never Was An Afro-American Governor Of Virginia Vogon_Glory Feb 2019 #4
Post removed Post removed Feb 2019 #6
Successfully play me for a fool once, shame on you Vogon_Glory Feb 2019 #16
And what do you call it when someone keeps treating black Dems like we're too stupid Empowerer Feb 2019 #17
So now African-Americans are 'purists'!?!? Thanks for the 'update' bobbieinok Feb 2019 #10
What are the Dems doing for Africans Americans? HipChick Feb 2019 #7

MuseRider

(34,139 posts)
2. Exactly
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:44 PM
Feb 2019

I am getting tired of people saying that to you and to any of us who are not white men.

The stretch to keep this guy in office is killing us. Whatever happened he handled it wrong and he looks very guilty so he has got to go. You should never have to suffer through this again. Never. If he is not the guy in the picture he would have handled it better right from the start. If there is a question he is out of there afaic.

TheRealNorth

(9,500 posts)
3. If a photo came out of an African-American congressman wearing an NWA T-shirt when he was young
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:25 PM
Feb 2019

or maybe attended a NWA concert in his youth, I presume you would be calling for his immediate resignation? Because, they should be immediately cast out if they ever listened to music that glorified misogyny (among other things).

Empowerer

(3,900 posts)
5. No I wouldn't because that would be stupid
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:52 PM
Feb 2019

And only someone who hasn't a clue of the difference between the Ku Klux Klan and a rap group would say something that ignorant.

Or maybe someone with a different purpose here.

Or both.

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
11. LOL
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 11:19 PM
Feb 2019

But if you think that Trayvon Martin can turn a sidewalk into a deadly weapon, I can see why you'd be absolutely terrified of NWA.

Vogon_Glory

(9,137 posts)
4. Oh, Oh, Oh, Like There Never Was An Afro-American Governor Of Virginia
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:48 PM
Feb 2019

But wait a minute, there WAS an Afro-American Governor of Virginia—Douglas Wilder. Not during Reconstruction, not during the heady days of the Civil Rights era, but in the early 1990’s. And, Divine Providence smiling and the oligarchs thwarted in their efforts to undermine the popular vote, there will be another one.

Purists whining about Northam not resigning immediately should grow up. Stamping their feet and holding their breath until their faces turn blue really doesn’t become them.

Response to Vogon_Glory (Reply #4)

Vogon_Glory

(9,137 posts)
16. Successfully play me for a fool once, shame on you
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 12:37 AM
Feb 2019

Successfully play me for a fool twice, shame on me

Successfully play me for a fool multiple times, and I’m either a Trumpkin or a Democratic purist progressive.

Empowerer

(3,900 posts)
17. And what do you call it when someone keeps treating black Dems like we're too stupid
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 12:48 AM
Feb 2019

to understand what's best for us and sneer at us with such terms as "purist" when we expect our fellow Democrats to do more than give lip service to our party ideals?

I have my own name for it, but I'm interested in hearing yours.

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