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In reply to the discussion: "I don't see color. I was raised to treat everyone equal, Jane Elliott doesn't know what saying" [View all]NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)3. Some people see everyone as the HUMAN race.
I think that is what he was saying.
He is a wealthy Somerset County businessman who hired Black people in the 1970s and 1980s when it was unpopular, but he says that "critical race theory" is a problem.
He doesn't like critical race theory.
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"I don't see color. I was raised to treat everyone equal, Jane Elliott doesn't know what saying" [View all]
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
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He walked over glass to give Black people opportunities in ruby red NJ in the 1980s
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#9
I don't care what he thinks, he just spoke on the News NJ radio this morning
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#11
He is a racist asshole with a bad case of White Man's Burden syndrome it sounds like (n/t)
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2020
#16
He's not a racist. Dedicated his whole life to the NJ NAACP as a member.
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#19
I am just listening to what he said. He wants his name to be anonymous. He spoke for 15 minutes
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#18
I think he sounds like a racist using lame justifications to claim he isn't one
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2020
#12
He says that the NBA, etc. needs to work with white suburban communities to fix
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#21
You are expending a fuckton of energy explaining this one old racist dude.
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2020
#30
You should make a website of all your many discussion question in which you make a
Squinch
Sep 2020
#31
New Jersey is really a swing state---but the Dems run better politics than the GOP
NYCButterfinger
Sep 2020
#33