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   JonnyBGood said, 10 months ago

   THAT is a good point.
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   JonnyBGood said, 10 months ago

   We’ve got to remember what we have in common, and give up the name-calling. Here would be a great place to start.
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   Harryfan said, 10 months ago

   I live in the middle. I have liberals yelling in my left ear and tea par-tier’s in my right. And if they don’t knock it off, I’m going to start yelling in the middle.
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   afficionado said, 10 months ago

   Most Maltese are divided into 2 tribes
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   BigChiefDesoto said, 10 months ago

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   The Democrats couldn’t live without lying!
   The only trouble is that the Republicans couldn’t either! At least not since Barry Goldwater!!
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   gmartin997 said, 10 months ago

   I suppose THAT type of discrimination is legal.
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   Dogsniff said, 10 months ago

   You can always count on Nabuquduriuzhur.
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   xsintrix said, 10 months ago

   Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to my right…
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   J. Short said, 10 months ago

   My father was military and probably politically right of Attila the Hun, We were stationed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. During the strike by blacks against the bus companies (due to discrimination procedures) he gave a black hitch hiker a ride. He told the man he was 100% behind what they were doing. Being so young, I didn’t realize what that conversation was about till many years later.
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    rshive said, 10 months ago

    Personally, i’m a Little Endian. Get tired of all those Big Endians shouting at me.
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    TexTech said, 10 months ago

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    Nab, you may need to read more history and read it more deeply. At the time of the Civil War, Republicans were the party of Hamiltonian activism while the Democrats were the Jeffersonian “small government” crowd. Somewhere in the late 18th and early 19th century, these positions flipped. I have not seen the reasons why. So by today’s standards, Lincoln would be a Democrat.

    The whole thing about Democrats in the south is an artifact of the Civil War. They are Democrats because Lincoln was a Republican. The truth is their political sensibilities align much more with the Republican party. And of course they would have been opposed to anything having to do with Civil Rights regardless of which party proposed it. At least the Texas “Democrats” had the courage to admit their true party allegiance and switch to the Republican party.
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    goweeder said, 10 months ago

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    And it seems that the conservatives wouldn’t mind those water fountains going back to the way they were 50 years ago: “Whites only” and “Coloreds only.”
    ……………………………………………………

    Pertinent thought! I remember back in the 30’s, seeing a sign above the side door of our local theater that read, “Colored Only.” I wondered why I couldn’t go through THAT door, since apparently they got to see the movies in color, and I could only see them in black & white!
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    goweeder said, 10 months ago

    @gmartin997

    I suppose THAT type of discrimination is
    legal.
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    There will ALWAYS be discrimination. I think the human animal is just designed that way.
    I remember an episode of Start Trek (Yes, I’M a dyed-in-the-wool Trekkie) that featured two tribes against each other: One tribe was while on one side of the body and black on the other side.
    The other side was white on the opposite side and black on the other.
    They warred on this difference, and each side thought they were superior
    Methinks we think too highly of ourselves ( and too little of everyone else.) The ultimate sin is having a different opinion.
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    davidh48 said, 10 months ago

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    The"rest" rooms were “His”, “Hers”, and “Colored.”

    We moved from the north and had a “Negro” maid. As far as us kids (and parents) were concerned, Louise was family. We all cried when we moved back north.

    Unfortunately, my belief is that underlying attitude about “people who are not us” will linger for a few more generations. Just ask a Native American.

    I’m VERY grateful for all the colors of people in my life! Did you notice we all share the same blood color?

    This is a funny stage for social commentary, but probably better than Twitter. 8<)
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    LingeeWhiz said, 10 months ago

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    See? There you go! Just perpetuating some kind of idea totally untrue! There are very many conservative “colored” people as well. Just ask Alan Keyes, Allen West, Herman Cain, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell to name just a handful.
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