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Alabama

Fluke a Snooker

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2. Keep in mind the founding of the US was steeped in the SAME amount of white racist oppression

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Thu May 25, 2017, 03:00 PM

May 2017

While the process of defining the vile nature of the white oppressionist south is being enacted through legislative and municipal means, keep in mind the country was founded by whites who oppressed non-white males at the ballot box and kept slaves JUST LIKE THE SOUTH. That conversation is not yet above the radar, but it's definitely on the horizon.

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Confederate monuments offend, but there is something much worse in Alabama [View all] yallerdawg May 2017 OP

I was thinking the racists are still in Alabama and other states as well liberal N proud May 2017 #1

Keep in mind the founding of the US was steeped in the SAME amount of white racist oppression Fluke a Snooker May 2017 #2

Exactly. I laugh at white wingers when they bow down to "founding fathers," who talked of liberty Hoyt May 2017 #3

The point is... yallerdawg May 2017 #4

Mayor Landrieu said something else brer cat May 2017 #5