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cdwag14Michael Harriot
2/06/19 3:06pm
The mailbag this week should be something. For real I think we need a break from white people for a while.
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  Squib308cdwag14
  2/06/19 7:58pm
  Ah yeah. I wouldn’t be surprised to find a mention of this article by Tucker Carlson dude, supporting some racist dickhead idea someone gave him. There are actually some really diverse (racist as shit, Q-anon, KKKish, white supremacist folks that glance at the articles on this site from time to time) folks on here from time to time.
  I was looking for a year or so old article one time on the Root, and I Googled some of the relevant terms (I don’t know what it was, it was funny though). First hits I got were from some crazy white supremacist forums talking about how racist black folks are, and here’s proof, “that (pick up your basket of racial slurs and dump it on the screen) said blah blah blah...”
  That the article was satire, sarcasm, was supposed to be, and was funny went right over their head. Honestly though, finding those forums & knowing they at least read the headlines & knew the names of the staff over here creeped me out.
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Not Enough Day DrinkingMichael Harriot
2/06/19 3:02pm
I’ve thought about building a border wall too. But I’d frame it as ‘preserving the heritage’ of the United States. Don’t think of it so much as a wall as much as a monument shaming those who thought keeping people as property was a good idea. We can even paint the south side of the wall white which is not only their favorite color, but also the color of their battle flag.
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  El-DebeigeNot Enough Day Drinking
  2/06/19 3:10pm
  Your sacrificing ATL and Durham for that. Listen I’ve been living in Durham Nc and it’s pretty alright. At NC has the Aggies and Bennet (maybe). I suggest we have those guys pack up and move to MD. Then we build that wall. Though I think some Midwest states could be included.
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  BlakeBortlesandJaymes: Thanos Won Because of NebulaNot Enough Day Drinking
  2/06/19 3:14pm
  They can DEFINITELY HAVE MISERY, North Kentucky (Ohio) and actual Kentucky too. Cause white people love being from Ohio or having Ohio roots, apparently
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JonsLegionMichael Harriot
2/06/19 2:55pm
Nah. Everyone knows that the Wall ain’t gonna happen, and if it happens, it won’t last. Because everyone knows that if there’s one thing that white people won’t ever stop doing, it’s wanting what they don’t have.
Every time we put a division between what “they” have and what “we” have, the whites spend all of a hot minute before we decide we want what “they” have too.
It’s all a song and dance and the only people fooled by it are the ones looking to benefit the most when we swarm over it. White people.
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  Gameface doesn`t play nice with othersJonsLegion
  2/07/19 4:48am
  This shit is the most truest shit I have read on the Root this week.
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jystadMichael Harriot
2/06/19 5:11pm
Ahem. Why don’t we stop playing cute, and call a spade a spade. Much of the interior of America is populated with backwards hot messes, just like if you travel just outside of New York City proper.
Why not just have our large, coastal cities break away from their stately overlords? Albany holds NYC back just as much as Tallahassee holds Miami back from being as lit as it wanna be. ATL should just be its own thing. Same for New Orleans, because Baton Rouge may as well be in the 50's. Let our great coastal cities be walled city-states!
We are the economic vehicles, we have the brilliant minds, the good schools, the best hospitals, we have the culture, the transit, the everything that matters. I propose, we just have a loose constellation of city-states, who are sovereign, like the Vatican. Just like when you go to a club and the DJ only calls out cities of importance on the dancefloor, so too can our cities be great again!
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  Amfojystad
  2/06/19 5:34pm
  Ahem. Why don’t we stop playing cute, and call a spade a spade.
  Um...
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  send_in_the_dronesAmfo
  2/06/19 6:41pm
  The idiom originates in the classical Greek of Plutarch’s Apophthegmata Laconica, and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in Nicolas Udall’s translation of the Apophthegmes, where Erasmus had seemingly replaced Plutarch’s images of “trough” and “fig” with the more familiar “spade.” The idiom has appeared in many literary and popular works, including those of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, W. Somerset Maugham, and Jonathan Swift.
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  The phrase predates the use of the word “spade” as an ethnic slur against African Americans,^[9] which was not recorded until 1928; however, in contemporary U.S. society, the idiom is often avoided due to potential confusion with the slur.^[16]
  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade for more details.
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Hyperbolic Idiot ChamberMichael Harriot
2/06/19 4:33pm
This just made me think of the “peace” walls in Northern Ireland which were built during the troubles and are still up. Most of them are still only open during daytime and have guards stationed at the entrances.
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Beit Hisda AlephMichael Harriot
2/06/19 5:27pm
Yes! If White people would become as upset by white drug dealers, gang bangers, murderers, rapists, etc. as they do so when black & brown people commit such crimes, America will be a safer place to live. If they stop making excuses & denying the crimes occurred (ex. calling Newton families “crises actors” & “liars because their babies were not murdered by a white guy”), America will be a safer place to live. If White people insisted on the same level of punishment & “Justice” for white criminals, America will be a safer place to live. Instead, they choose fear of those who do not share their skin tone while those who do share their skin tone invokes no fear. So sad!
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onecockringtorulethemallMichael Harriot
2/06/19 3:14pm
So I conducted my very own peer-reviewed, scientific survey: I found a random group of black people and screamed, at the top of my lungs, “MS-13 is coming!”
One guy replied that he wasn’t really a Microsoft fan—he had a MacBook Pro. Two Tom Cruise fans separately offered me $10, assuming I was talking about the new Mission Impossible sequel.
As I collected my $20 for the bootlegs DVDs, I yelled, “Oh shit, the police are coming!”
Everyone took off running.
That’s it... I just wanted to highlight this. LMAO
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BlackTromboneMichael Harriot
2/06/19 3:50pm
And white foke should pay for it!
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JadeMichael Harriot
2/06/19 6:00pm
Lol, You are so right about the police thing. If I saw a group of MS-13 members approaching me, I probably wouldn’t be too phased by them at all, but I always cross the street when I see a gang of cops hanging out on the corner.
I’m not about to take that risk.
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