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Judi Lynn

(160,684 posts)
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:40 AM Nov 2017

RACIST TRUMP SUPPORTERS SLAM LEVAR BURTON AFTER CONFUSING HIM FOR LAVAR BALL


NY MAGEE NOVEMBER 24, 2017

*Actor LeVar Burton, best known for his work in Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation, is getting bombarded with racist and angry tweets from miserable Donald Trump supporters who have mistaken him for LaVar Ball.

As you know, Ball is the father of UCLA basketball player and thief LiAngelo Ball, whom Trump helped free after he got caught shoplifting in China. Ball and Trump have been engaged in a public feud for the past several days because 45 is enraged that Ball didn’t personally thank him for helping his son avoid a potentially lengthy prison sentence.

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http://www.eurweb.com/2017/11/racist-trump-supporters-slam-levar-burton-after-confusing-him-for-lavar-ball/#
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RACIST TRUMP SUPPORTERS SLAM LEVAR BURTON AFTER CONFUSING HIM FOR LAVAR BALL (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2017 OP
He was one of those BLM guys SCantiGOP Nov 2017 #1
Typical Cons, ... Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #2
So let me get this straight: we're NOT supposed to call them deplorable? calimary Nov 2017 #3
This happened a few days ago... Princess Turandot Nov 2017 #4
Reading can go fuck itself! Nevernose Nov 2017 #5
I remember LeVar Burton in front of congress, me listening on the radio, rusty quoin Nov 2017 #6

SCantiGOP

(13,878 posts)
1. He was one of those BLM guys
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:51 AM
Nov 2017

Insisted his name was Kunta Kinte.
Maybe it’s a generational thing but I surely think of him from his role in Roots before anything else.

calimary

(81,608 posts)
3. So let me get this straight: we're NOT supposed to call them deplorable?
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:58 AM
Nov 2017

They ARE The Deplorables. Fits 'em like a glove.

Princess Turandot

(4,791 posts)
4. This happened a few days ago...
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:59 AM
Nov 2017

Other twitter users smacked these idiots down quite forcefully. And happily, Mr Burton seemed to take it with a grain of salt.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029875164

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
5. Reading can go fuck itself!
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 01:10 AM
Nov 2017

As can anyone who doesn’t love whichever billionaire the GOP tells me to! And rainbows, too! And especially rainbows which what knows how to read letters betters then i canz! Coluje edumacated dummiecrates! Dummerz iz me wuth trump maga! MAGA!!!!!!

I think that sums up the devolution of the last twenty years of thirty percent of the American electorate quite nicely.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
6. I remember LeVar Burton in front of congress, me listening on the radio,
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 01:41 AM
Nov 2017

back in the 90s, explaining to right wingers how important PBS was.

It didn’t matter what he said. They had already made up their minds. It was a good lesson for me.

It hasn’t changed. It’s all for show. Fuck them.

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