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Binkie The Clown

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4. The only thing that comes close in my memory...

Reply to Evolve Dammit (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 07:26 PM

Nov 2020

... was the rioting and violence of the school segregation battle in the South. I remember US Marshalls escorting little first graders to their classes while crowd gathered around the school shouted insults and hateful slurs. It broke my heart.

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I grieve for our country. I have never witnessed anything close to this devisiveness in my lifetime. [View all] Evolve Dammit Nov 2020 OP

I'm 72 and have never been so ashamed to be American. sinkingfeeling Nov 2020 #1

Same. NurseJackie Nov 2020 #5

I feel the same CanonRay Nov 2020 #9

The GOP is completely devoid of integrity and morals. CentralMass Nov 2020 #2

It is NOT divisiveness ... Eliot Rosewater Nov 2020 #3

The only thing that comes close in my memory... Binkie The Clown Nov 2020 #4

I don't remember the Vietnam protests exboyfil Nov 2020 #6

Oh God. Not Roseanne grab her crotch while singing the anthem Barr. Daaaann! The show sucked too. Evolve Dammit Nov 2020 #8

Good point. And the bombings, and the lynchings, and the assassinations..WTF are we underneath? Evolve Dammit Nov 2020 #7

I never thought I'd see anything as bas as 1968 CanonRay Nov 2020 #10