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jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:50 PM Mar 2016

Another explanation of the Trump rise...

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice that you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B. Johnson

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Another explanation of the Trump rise... (Original Post) jaysunb Mar 2016 OP
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This message was self-deleted by its author Jackie Wilson Said Mar 2016 #2
I know some of those people very well. brer cat Mar 2016 #3
Alot of them don't need to be "convinced" Number23 Mar 2016 #4
+1 n/t jaysunb Mar 2016 #5
Since they have muzzled him - I'm thinking I'm going to give him props for that! JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #6

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Number23

(24,544 posts)
4. Alot of them don't need to be "convinced"
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 11:43 PM
Mar 2016

It's like that quote that 1SBM was so fond of saying, mainly because it's true:

Want to make a white man with $1 mad? Show him a black man with $2.

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