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mobeau69

(11,128 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2019, 08:19 PM Mar 2019

This 2020 candidate learned about 'privilege' getting caught with marijuana at Harvard

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/03/11/pete-buttigieg-harvard-marijuana

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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This 2020 candidate learned about 'privilege' getting caught with marijuana at Harvard (Original Post) mobeau69 Mar 2019 OP

Wow. He'e really LIVED it. chimpymustgo Mar 2019 #1

smart people learn from their experiences. my busted with pot lesson msongs Mar 2019 #2

chimpymustgo

(12,774 posts)

1. Wow. He'e really LIVED it.

Reply to mobeau69 (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2019, 08:26 PM

Mar 2019

“Think about that: That’s a funny story to me,” he said. “That can be a funny story to me. And if I were not white, the odds of that having been something that would have derailed my life are exponentially higher. So that’s one of many moments when I learned a thing or two about privilege.”

Not a funny story to thousands of black men.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

msongs

(67,336 posts)

2. smart people learn from their experiences. my busted with pot lesson

Reply to mobeau69 (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2019, 08:32 PM

Mar 2019

taught me that when a record gets stuck in a grooove and repeats the same bit over and over for a half hour get up and lift the needle

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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