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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:37 PM Mar 2016

Robert Reich on Facebook: Bullies

"I have a particular relationship to bullies. When I was a kid – and a very short one at that – older boys used to threaten me, and sometimes beat me up. Occasionally I was protected from the bullies by kinder older boys, like Mickey Schwerner. Years later, in the summer of 1964, Mickey was trying to register voters in Mississippi when he and two other civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman and James Earl Chaney, were abducted, tortured, murdered, and buried in an earthen dam by members of the local White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office, and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department.

When I heard that the young man who had protected me from my bullies had himself been killed by truly monstrous bullies, my life forever changed.

Donald Trump is a bully who’s stirring up other bullies to rage against Latinos, blacks, Muslims, and other convenient scapegoats – channeling the fears and resentments of the white working class into hatefulness and violence. He deserves to be condemned by every decent American."



https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/photos/a.404595876219681.103599.142474049098533/1172012549478006/

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Robert Reich on Facebook: Bullies (Original Post) Hissyspit Mar 2016 OP
I condemn him! PatrickforO Mar 2016 #1
Yup! Reich is right! longship Mar 2016 #2
It's such a shame that we can't see smart, inspiring people like Robert Reich on TV. Nyan Mar 2016 #3
Well said! DLnyc Mar 2016 #4
KNR.n/t DirkGently Mar 2016 #5
Amen.... daleanime Mar 2016 #6
Only had to read the first paragraph Punx Mar 2016 #7
^ Wilms Mar 2016 #8

PatrickforO

(14,559 posts)
1. I condemn him!
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:40 PM
Mar 2016

And I and my family will fight tooth and nail against his ignorant, violent 'movement' and will oppose him every step of the way.

Nyan

(1,192 posts)
3. It's such a shame that we can't see smart, inspiring people like Robert Reich on TV.
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:02 PM
Mar 2016

Just because he doesn't toe the line for the Clintons.
He should be interviewed in front of bigger audience. This needs to be heard.

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