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In reply to the discussion: Jonathan Wall (14-year-old Black boy electric chair, deathbed confession shows he was innocent) [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)and opening up an opportunity for every racist in this country to create yet another 'other' in this society. We WERE making progress in race relations where at least bigots had to keep their bigotry to themselves, occupying the fringes where they belonged.
Now it is perfectly fine to use terminology, on the media and elsewhere such as 'raghead' 'camel jockey' 'cave dweller' and to label all one billion Muslims on the planet as 'terrorists'. And that's the printable version of where Bush led this country backwards. Every bigot in the country jumped on the opportunity, now without fear of consequences, to regress once again to the old free for all against a segment of the population of this country and the world.
To mention Bush in the same breath as FDR, whose administration did address the issue of racism btw, is simply stunning.
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