and I left Mississippi for Arizona to see this?

SargeUNN

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Fri Apr-23-10 03:47 PM
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and I left Mississippi for Arizona to see this?

I grew up in Jim Crow Mississippi and lived there until 3 years ago. I can't believe I am now back in the Jim Crow Era again. Jim Crow was awful and here we go again, "Forward into the Past."

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 03:50 PM
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1. C'mon up to Maryland, Sarge;

civility along with civilization here.

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Warpy

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Fri Apr-23-10 03:52 PM
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2. Racist assholes are everywhere

I left the Jim Crow south for Boston, where racism again hit me like a brick wall.

In its way, it was just as bad as it was in the south. It was just a different flavor of the same poison.

The more of the rest of us we can get out to vote, the less chance the racists have of getting into or staying in power.

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bobbolink

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:31 PM
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3. And the only way you are going to get poor folk "out to vote" is to pay attention to us

and make life better for us, rather than only talking about the muddleclass!

I just read a DUers post saying that those on the bottom are ignorant.

Now, if that is the way that so many "progressives" chooose to see me, why in the hell would I bother to vote?

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Warpy

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:42 PM
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4. No shit, Sherlock

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 04:42 PM by Warpy

I spent my whole life in the working class, sometimes at pretty bottom of the barrel jobs.

The most ignorant people I have ever known, however, are the people who graduated with a 4 year degree in something or other, slid into middle management, and never opened a book for the rest of their lives except to find a phone number.

Educated and informed are two completely different animals, and I've found more informed people on the bottom of the economic heap than in the middle or on the top of it.

It's high time the more ivory tower leftists making policy realize it.

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bobbolink

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:44 PM
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5. Thanks, Warpy. I am sick to death of being treated like shit on the "progressive" underground!

I grew up in Los Alamos, with the highest level of Ph.Ds per capita of anywhere in the nation.

The highest level of I.Qs of anywhere in the nation.

I remember a neighbor when I was a kid saying, "You meet a physicist on the street and say Hello and he is stuck for an answer."

Thought you would enjoy that.

:hi:

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