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YoungDemCA

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3. I'm pretty sure that he is aware of that fact

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 01:37 PM

Jul 2016

I think he's saying that that fact doesn't make much of a difference in the present-day context in which we find ourselves; namely, a thoroughly racist/white supremacist society.

Being part of the original people of this world hasn't stopped police shootings of unarmed black teenagers and other hate crimes against people of color. That's the point that I believe he is making.

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Poor man. He's broken. Doesn't know he is the original man. brush Jul 2016 #2

I'm pretty sure that he is aware of that fact YoungDemCA Jul 2016 #3

I'm African American and I don't share his feelings at all. I'm proud of my people having . . . brush Jul 2016 #4