Race, lets make this serious! It is nearly 2013.

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Vrede too wrote:
rstrong wrote:... And we now know from General Wesley Clark that Bush II & Friends had a five-year campaign plan to invade a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan....
Hadn't heard that. Got a link to more details?
The first couple minutes are REALLY worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw


Salon, 2007: Seven countries in five years

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I guess I somehow slept through late 2007, or I was so disgusted by then that it didn't register as that big of a deal.

I will definitely concede that non-warrior Shrub's gang was extreme, but otherwise I haven't seen that much difference in foreign and military policy between POTUSes in my lifetime.
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Entire WNBA Team Kneels in Protest During National Anthem

... the first such protest involving an entire professional sports team....

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Grandstanding.
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Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality

Summary: "In a new report, EPI’s Valerie Wilson and Rutgers University professor William M. Rodgers, III write that racial wage gaps in 2015 were larger than they were in 1979. The report finds that racial wage gaps are growing primarily due to discrimination, along with rising inequality in general. The impact of growing racial wage gaps over the last 36 years has been especially detrimental to the economic wellbeing of African Americans since this was also a period of weak wage growth for the vast majority of workers."
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UNC Students Protest National Anthem With Raised Fists

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... The group of both black and white students, raised fists during the anthem, while University of North Carolina band members took a knee....

In July, North Carolina’s governor passed a law protecting police footage from being made public without a court order....
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They said despicable things about the Obamas but say not racists. Yes, they are

. . . and they're cowardly idiots for denying the obvious.
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When did we quit calling these people "white supremacists" and starting using "nationalist"? And why isn't every reference to any of them from Bannon on down including "racist" "bigot" anti-Constitutionalist" or some other equally accurate and descriptive term?

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That's what they call themselves in a lame and cowardly attempt to rationalize their porcine nature. Anyhow, the article doesn't white( ;) )wash:
... this is Revolutionary-era elitism drawn along racist lines ... KKK wizard David Duke ... neo-Nazi sites like American Renaissance and Stormfront ... racist ... white supremacists ... racism ... racist fan base ...
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44 years after conviction, Freedom Rider Sala Udin is pardoned by Obama

... Among the recipients was former Pittsburgh City Council member Sala Udin, a onetime Freedom Rider who was beaten up registering voters in 1960s Mississippi. But Udin had been haunted for decades by a criminal charge that grew out of his youthful activism: Driving fellow protesters home from the South, he was stopped for speeding in Kentucky and arrested after police found an unloaded shotgun and a jug of moonshine in the car.

... His assignment was to register black voters in the Mississippi Delta. In doing so, he faced intimidation from local residents and hostility from all-white police forces. “I was beaten up pretty bad and thought I was going to die,” Udin said last year, describing an incident in which he was pulled over and ordered to “get out of the car, n*****!”

In 1970, while driving back from Mississippi, Udin was stopped for speeding outside Louisville, Ky. An unloaded rifle was found in the trunk of his car (along with that jug of Mississippi moonshine.) He was charged and convicted in 1972 of carrying a firearm across state lines and spent eight months in prison....

Udin always acknowledged his guilt, but with a proviso: “At that point, although I was previously committed to nonviolence, I concluded that if I was trapped on some lonely, dark road in the South and confronted by Klansmen who threatened to kill me, I would be prepared to defend my life,” he wrote in his petition for a pardon to the Justice Department. “I concluded that I would rather be caught by the police with defensive weapons than to be caught by the Klan without them.”

Whatever the explanation, there was little dispute that Udin had gone on to live an exemplary life: He founded an African-American Culture Center in Pittsburgh. He served three terms on the Pittsburgh City Council (from 1995 to 2006), spearheading the creation of the city’s police civilian review board....
"eight months in prison". I've been stopped for speeding at least half a dozen times and have never been searched. I've also had guns and moonshine in my car.
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I don't want to sound racist....
...but all skinheads look alike.

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It's because of that eyes-close-together inbred look.

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Those aren't skinheads. They're just bald guys. But you have to wonder about just how bright you have to be to get that tattoo on your face or sport a soul patch.

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I don't know if Skinheads are still a thing in the US, but there were also:
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice

Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose neo-fascists and other political racists, particularly if those racists identify themselves as skinheads. SHARPs draw inspiration from the biracial origins of the skinhead subculture, and resent what they see as the hijacking of the "skinhead" name by white power skinheads (sometimes deriding them as "boneheads"). Beyond the opposition to racism, there is no official SHARP political ideology....
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I had no idea skinheads had such a history or the culture was so complex... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead

I had only mostly known them from the nazi bunch. Didn't know the Doc Marten wearing style from 90ish were also skinheads. :oops:

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