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mountain grammy

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40. Agree, zero tolerance.

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Wed Jul 17, 2013, 10:41 AM

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Very revealing post from another board I frequent. [View all] MoonRiver Jul 2013 OP

Thanks. bvar22 Jul 2013 #1

+ reusrename Jul 2013 #2

Kind of like Christopher Columbus "found" America. tclambert Jul 2013 #4

They were all just a bunch of ignorant savages until Chris showed up Orrex Jul 2013 #14

perfect! MoonRiver Jul 2013 #8

yahoo news heaven05 Jul 2013 #9

how do you know the woman in the left photo is white? She looks a lot like one of my closest KittyWampus Jul 2013 #13

Really? 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2013 #17

Yes, really. She moved away to D.C. in 11th grade. KittyWampus Jul 2013 #39

I also know someone whose skin is white as white can be Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #21

Is that you Juror 37? Tutonic Jul 2013 #25

Now why would you want to paint me as a racist rube? Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #34

Doesn't matter. The person in the back is white Gormy Cuss Jul 2013 #32

um ... wooosh! Kali Jul 2013 #51

excuse me? do you have some relevant comment to make? KittyWampus Jul 2013 #52

your comment about the woman who might be black yet looked white Kali Jul 2013 #53

Sorry, but that photo gets used with the assumption both people are white. You can make a secondary KittyWampus Jul 2013 #54

+1000 Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #28

I talked to a guy loyalsister Jul 2013 #33

Many people who were stranded NOLALady Jul 2013 #55

The same guy talked about standing on a roof of a high rise with helicopter flying over loyalsister Jul 2013 #57

I have not doubt that "looters" kept them alive loyalsister Jul 2013 #58

Nailed it. ctsnowman Jul 2013 #37

Wow! tofuandbeer Jul 2013 #48

If you want a good laugh, check the archives and see what some DUers were saying then... Blue_Tires Jul 2013 #49

From Snopes oberliner Jul 2013 #56

zero tolerance hopemountain Jul 2013 #3

Yes, I just wish I knew how to combat this monster better. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #6

we combat this by making sure we do not tolerate hopemountain Jul 2013 #11

exactly... Bully Taw Jul 2013 #24

Patience.. SomethingFishy Jul 2013 #59

if we do something about it now hopemountain Jul 2013 #62

I so agree, especially with you last clause. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #63

Agree, zero tolerance. mountain grammy Jul 2013 #40

that's heaven05 Jul 2013 #5

Perhaps in the years since the author has come to understand how the judge could ask that, jtuck004 Jul 2013 #7

jtuck004, it wasn't me who had this experience. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #10

I realized that after I posted it. But yeah. Although the one that I think persuaded most of jtuck004 Jul 2013 #15

Yeah, there is. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #16

No mystery to me Warpy Jul 2013 #12

yep grasswire Jul 2013 #60

Telling, indeed. snort Jul 2013 #18

I've been asked that question by ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2013 #19

this shit makes me angry Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #27

And I am sad to say nadinbrzezinski Jul 2013 #20

I had the same reaction while watching Levar Burton on CNN talk about 'when [he] get's pulled over' apnu Jul 2013 #22

Omg. To think Levar Burton needs to act in such a way.. RedCappedBandit Jul 2013 #29

Right!? apnu Jul 2013 #30

In his speech yesterday at the NAACP convention, Holder mentions it happening to him MoonRiver Jul 2013 #35

And while he was a federal prosecutor no less!! nt 2naSalit Jul 2013 #44

I don't see how any man kalisto2010 Jul 2013 #23

Are you serious? Tutonic Jul 2013 #26

WTF?!? No male in my family has ever been arrested Raine Jul 2013 #61

It is very easy. Just obey the law. Just thge opposite is true, few are arrested. Coyotl Sep 2013 #64

2 teen boys, one white, one black tblue Jul 2013 #31

There's a lot of research about how racism takes hold in the subconscious. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #36

K & R ctsnowman Jul 2013 #38

Maybe the judge is aware daybranch Jul 2013 #41

That's what I would have wondered as well, reflection Jul 2013 #45

I believe this story oldandhappy Jul 2013 #42

the insidiousness of racism, and its acceptance noiretextatique Jul 2013 #43

What judge is really asking .... zentrum Jul 2013 #46

We are all filled with these perceptions zipplewrath Jul 2013 #47

We've got to be carefully taught locks Jul 2013 #50