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Please explain the relevance of that remark. The slavery one.

I stand corrected.

Would that make you feel good? Are you a voyeur?

Yeah, it had slipped my mind that the Emancipation only applied to the states that were in rebellion. It gets so danged sticky sometimes. Semantically, “Lincoln freed the slaves” is pretty vague. Saying that he led the effort to Constitutionally eliminate it from our society is a more accurate way to state it. But it takes a lot more words.

Thank you for that edification.

Institutionalized racism right there. “They take up for their own”. There ain’t but one race. Homo Sapiens. So I take up for my own regardless of their color.

Ain’t got the right blood for the soil, huh?

Iyamwhatiyam. Can you be a little more specific on what an anti-white white is? I am pro people. Color has no bearing on my perception of people. How Western culture has influenced history does have a lot of warts to go along with its positives. Does that make me anti-white because I’m not afraid to point some of them out?

You ever read a dictionary? A word can have different meanings depending on context. It can be different parts of speech depending on use. Language is flexible. It can be used many ways. I interpret Trump’s use of thug based on the contexts he uses it in. What I hear him say, not what someone tells me he says.

You ever read a dictionary? Words can have multiple meanings depending on context. They can be nouns, verbs, or adjectives depending on how they’re used. Believe what you will. We all do that, anyway.

Where did I say semi-white? I said not white as rice, meaning I have a more Mediterranean skin tone as my paternal Grandfather was an immigrant. Greek. Supposedly a little Cherokee in there too. What you want to call me now?

Let’s see….that sounds like a euphemism for N-Lover. I’ve been called that too. You ARE a racist!

Charlie Kirk? You gotta be kidding. So, FOX is real news until it isn’t? Check out 538’s aggregate polling. Last I checked, it was 40.8 Trump, 40.3 Biden, with the gap closing. The felon is falling.

It’s so ingrained as to not be even realized when expressed. Institutionalized may be a bette me description.

I’m not arguing that. Has he called any of the vast Caucasian majority who trashed the Capitol thugs? Has he called any Proud Boys thugs? No. He reserves that term for minorities. A dog whistle.

I understand. It’s nice to talk about something else sometimes. Your last sentence implied that politicians are politicians, and that’s what they do. I was just throwing one out there who I believe adheres more to principle than power.

A dog whistle is a dog whistle.

We don’t quite see eye to eye on that one. I can give you an example of a politician who is driven more by virtue than gain. Do a little checking up on Sherrod Brown, the Democratic Senator from Ohio who won his state by 5 points when Trump was winning it by 10. He’s the best man in the Senate by my estimation.

I’m not blaming him. The full page ad he took out in the NYT two weeks after the arrests speaks for itself. And, if you’re paying attention, he uses the word thug when he talks about African Americans or Hispanic immigrants. Racist code word.

Thanks for making my point, Reagan.

You call it lying. I call it refusing to acknowledge anything he does as positive. He’s an effective leader. Infrastructure bill - bipartisan - that takes Presidential leadership. Trump never got it done, though he claimed monthly that it was gonna happen. Is that negative? I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s true.

The difference between the two is that Biden continually works to overcome the institutionalized racism he was born into. Trump pushes execution for the Central Park 5, refers to BLM as a bunch of thugs, pulls the “some of my best friends are black” card many racists use, then claims no one is less racist than him. One seeks continual improvement, the other believes he’s perfect.

You’re right on there, Smash. The only way it will be overcome is one heart at a time. That happens with one on one or small groups meeting to hear each other. The media needs to keep the friction up to generate the money machine. I don’t look to them to solve anything.

Don’t think that qualifies, Mat. You was just po’d because the bank was closed. Would’ve been the same if you had forgotten it was Presidents Day, right?

Here’s a new poll for you. [Hidden Content] Reoorted by The Hill, no less.