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"Really? Wow what a coincidence." Non Sequitur today. (Original Post) hobbit709 Jan 2016 OP
Yep! n/t n2doc Jan 2016 #1
Yes indeed malaise Jan 2016 #2
A coincidence indeed! FailureToCommunicate Jan 2016 #3
Great cartoon Gothmog Jan 2016 #4
Nailed it liberal N proud Jan 2016 #5
Yeah, what a coincidence. mountain grammy Jan 2016 #6
These nut jobs... tikka Jan 2016 #7
You're correct NewJeffCT Jan 2016 #9
Yuppers. SoapBox Jan 2016 #8

tikka

(762 posts)
7. These nut jobs...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 09:43 AM
Jan 2016

were a problem before Obama was elected. The media and the government mostly ignored them. It was probably because they were white. Armed non-whites would have been shut down violently.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
9. You're correct
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 11:29 AM
Jan 2016

while there is no doubt racism is involved with some of this, these militia groups were all riled up under Bill Clinton as well, and if Hillary had won in 2008, we would have gotten much the same, only with sexism instead of racism.

And, I also agree that if this "militia" were black or brown skinned, they'd have been overrun the first day by the National Guard and/or some elite police units. Just have an armed million man march on Washington of black men and you'd suddenly see a lot of Congress shifting their positions on gun control as well - just like when the Black Panthers started carrying guns in the 60s, conservative icon Ronald Reagan signed into law restrictions on guns that he had opposed before.

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