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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 didnt 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/#
SCantiGOP
(13,878 posts)Insisted his name was Kunta Kinte.
Maybe its a generational thing but I surely think of him from his role in Roots before anything else.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)If t Weren't For Republicanism, Embarrassment Wouldn't Be A Word.
calimary
(81,608 posts)They ARE The Deplorables. Fits 'em like a glove.
Princess Turandot
(4,791 posts)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)As can anyone who doesnt 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)back in the 90s, explaining to right wingers how important PBS was.
It didnt matter what he said. They had already made up their minds. It was a good lesson for me.
It hasnt changed. Its all for show. Fuck them.