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brer cat

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4. Clearly you are not.

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 05:09 AM

Jul 2016

People get involved when it hits home, and then it is "omg, everybody, we have to do something." Generating a sense of urgency when it is someone else's ox being gored is difficult to achieve, as we have seen repeatedly for generations.

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*** Posted to the African-American Group *** [View all] 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 OP

Yes radical noodle Jul 2016 #1

All lives matter you see La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2016 #2

All the animals are equal YoungDemCA Jul 2016 #6

Excellent and truthful observation. Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #3

Clearly you are not. brer cat Jul 2016 #4

No You Are Not BronxBoy Jul 2016 #5

The white (my) community, including many progressives just cannot come to grips with what's real.. GitRDun Jul 2016 #7

never make an unnamed, unidentified and unsourced individual of anecdotal myth late for work LanternWaste Jul 2016 #8

You're right. Quayblue Jul 2016 #9

LOL ... Not justified; but, approved! 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #10