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My President Was Black
The Atlantic ^ | January/February 2017 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on 12/13/2016 6:21:55 AM PST by artichokegrower

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To: Dr. Pritchett

Totally agree with you, and know what you mean by “enough said”. Yet again in this thread I read conservatives touting the myth of St Martin Luther King (what a travesty that he took the name of one of the giants of Christianity in place of his own name, Michael King). He was a man whose own friends admitted to him hiring prostitutes and beating them. Just ponder that-he’s a secular saint even though he beat women, but Donald Trump is excoriated as a woman-hater because of some locker room talk that almost all men have indulged in, at least in their youths. Affirmative action double standards.


81 posted on 12/13/2016 9:04:35 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: nikos1121

Entertainer? Maybe.

Quota! Definitely!

Done with that EEOC Crap for a LONG while now!


82 posted on 12/13/2016 9:05:46 AM PST by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: Night Hides Not

>>I doubt he thinks as highly of a fellow brother, Clarence Thomas.<<

Or Ben Carson.

Both who are completely black and not mulattoes.


83 posted on 12/13/2016 10:07:18 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: cotton

Very sad that this supposedly “transformative” person is so vacuous & such an empty suit that to explain his failures & the earned label of “America’s worst president”, he has to throw in the face of the country the one thing that should matter least - the color of his skin. He had every opportunity to be a great president; however, he could not overcome his hate for America and her people, nor did he respect the foundation of this country as enshrined in the Constitution & Bill of Rights. He fooled the black community (& to be fair, many others) into believing his empty words with a devotional fervor & voting for him while he truly was not of the ‘black’ community in anything other than skin color and he abandoned them in his quest for all things Muslims, the perversion of homosexuality, the mental illness of transgenders, the immorality, crudeness & violence of hip hop/rap & ‘being cool’ & the golf course.


84 posted on 12/13/2016 10:11:44 AM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: oblomov

Miles Davis once said that if he had one hour to live he’d spend it strangling a white man.


85 posted on 12/13/2016 10:28:13 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
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To: Qiviut

You are 100% correct.


86 posted on 12/13/2016 10:31:48 AM PST by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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To: Toespi
The ONLY thing Obama has accomplished for his black half black race is he became their first black president. FIXED IT!!!
87 posted on 12/13/2016 1:56:54 PM PST by rhubarbk (I have great stamina . . . not tired of winning yet.)
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To: artichokegrower
Quite the shindig.

I hope these miserable bigots never gain such influence ever again.

Enough with the race baiting haters.
America has had it's fill.

Race does not equal character.

88 posted on 12/13/2016 2:13:28 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Qiviut

Just one lifetime left of turd polishing to go!


89 posted on 12/13/2016 2:21:20 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: artichokegrower

I won’t read anything by a person called Ta-Nehisi.:-)

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90 posted on 12/13/2016 2:22:41 PM PST by Mears
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To: artichokegrower

Only in the leap years, Te-Nehisi, only in the leap years ...


91 posted on 12/13/2016 2:26:59 PM PST by x
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