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2. I have seen this 3-4 times already and EVERY TIME it gives me the freaking shivers

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 04:53 PM

Oct 2015

He NAILS it. He goes by the "evidence," not pie in the sky fancy rhetoric and lovely, sweet words. He judges by actions.

I don't know if the labor orgs hate me, but I know I'm NOT in their union.
I don't know if the realtors hate black people but I know they keep me in the ghetto.
I don't know if the board of education hates black people, but I see the books they give my children (and of course black folks are hardly a mention at all beyond a couple of paragraphs on slavery and MLK) and the schools that we have to go to.

You want me to risk my life, my woman, my children on some idealistic version of America that you assure me exists which I have never seen.

Lord Have mercy....

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