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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 06:17 PM Jun 2012

I have decided...

to say this whenever a bagger brings up F&F:




This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate *Congress* rather than hung from a tree


I've already done it, the first response was that I was playing the race card. Then I told them those were Clarence Thomas' words, and asked if he was playing the race card. Still waiting for an answer.

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I have decided... (Original Post) one_voice Jun 2012 OP
funny rufus dog Jun 2012 #1
And another touche! BumRushDaShow Jun 2012 #2
Excellent Tsiyu Jun 2012 #3
I bet you're right... one_voice Jun 2012 #8
kick (nt) NYC_SKP Jun 2012 #4
K and R nt. thanks for posting Stuart G Jun 2012 #5
thanks! I'm gonna use this. Bluerthanblue Jun 2012 #6
well done! K & R nt abelenkpe Jun 2012 #7
I would have voted against Thomas just for not knowing what "deign" means cthulu2016 Jun 2012 #9
Nicely done!!! Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2012 #10
K&R tosh Jun 2012 #11
Substitute . . . aggiesal Jun 2012 #12
Whites are now the minority Mosaic Jun 2012 #14
WOW! Perfect. Thanks, will use that one. freshwest Jun 2012 #13
NICE CATCH! CanOfWhoopAss Jun 2012 #15
Excellent!!! one_voice Jun 2012 #16
Thanks for the inspiration... CanOfWhoopAss Jun 2012 #17

aggiesal

(8,964 posts)
12. Substitute . . .
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:55 PM
Jun 2012

Black American and Uppity blacks with
minority (as in Uppity Minority) it would work universally.

Thanks!

Mosaic

(1,451 posts)
14. Whites are now the minority
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 05:51 AM
Jun 2012

So uppity minority works for me. Minority in births, soon to be a total minority.

CanOfWhoopAss

(841 posts)
15. NICE CATCH!
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 10:44 AM
Jun 2012

I hope you don't mind my borrowing this...

Make no mistake, Thomas would never speak in support of Eric Holder. Nevertheless, Uncle Thomas' words apply more to Holder today than they ever did to Thomas 20+ years ago. H/T to One_Voice-DU

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
16. Excellent!!!
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 11:04 AM
Jun 2012

Please make this it's own op....it deserves it! Nice work! It needs to be on the greatest page.

Hopefully you'll do it before I have to run out, I'd like to be the first to rec

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