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then again, maybe Hillary

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:21:32 +0000

In reply to Interesting quote from King

then again, maybe Hillary would've gotten more traction with a #BeBest like platform.
Give people the benefit of the doubt...

Relax and have several seats, Melania, as I proudly present your slogan. #BeBest pic.twitter.com/xQbxUBjFNy
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) October 15, 2018

Yeah, the groundswell of

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:42:05 +0000

In reply to Interesting quote from King

Yeah, the groundswell of disenchanted voters who've abandoned Trump and moved to the Dems as Ukraine et al become more obvious. Oh wait, that hasn't happened. The true "deplorables" were never going to vote for her. The angle was to go for those who didn't want Trump's taint, who still had a sense of shame & moral rectitude. But as Adlai Stevenson responded re: "all thinking Americans are with you", that's all good and well but she needed a majority (in swing states).

Interesting quote from King

Flavius — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:52:49 +0000

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Interesting quote from King but to win , you need to have the most of : fighters, voters, whatevers.

Reporting to headquarters in some early election , maybe Middlesex County DA, I made a disparaging remark about some group I 'd canvassed :maybe drinkers in front of a bar. Without even looking up from his tally sheet the pol said " They don't weigh 'em, they count 'em".

With a few more "deplorables" Hillary could have spared us this clown.

The optics are better, but

rmrd0000 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:56:42 +0000

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The optics are better, but the distrust remains.

http://feministing.com/2018/04/26/who-gets-to-be-naked-at-harvard-university/

It is interesting that Liberals are told to be civil even in the face of threats of civil war by Evangelicals, Republican Congressmen etc, if things don't go their way. King directly confronted the racists.He lamented about the moderates.

From the Letter From a Birmingham Jail

“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

There was a review of the situation

The situation at Gates' home quickly escalated when it shouldn't have, according to the review. The report suggests that Crowley could have more clearly explained what he was doing and why, especially after being shown Gates' license and university ID. For his part, Gates could have used a more respectful tone to address the officer.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/review-of-harvard-professor-arrest-finds-incident-was-avoidable

How many interviews have you seen where Trump supporters are really pressed about "Look her up.", or suggestions of violence at Trump rallies? What action do Trump supporters have to take when it comes to civility with Liberals?

I certainly don't know. I

Flavius — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 03:40:31 +0000

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I certainly don't know. I expect Henry Gates has a shrewd idea.

But not to miss an opportunity to repeat myself, the beers under a White House tree seemed a more useful tactic than ,say ,Obama's requiring a Federal review of Cambridge police bias.

After the Civil Rights Bills

rmrd0000 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 03:28:54 +0000

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After the Civil Rights Bills passed, the South was lost to the Democrats.

Thurmond was certainly not the only Southern Democrat to switch his party affiliation in the period following the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act – Jesse Helms made the change in 1970; Trent Lott, an aide to a segregationist Democratic congressman, ran for the House as a Republican in 1972; Virginian Mills Goodwn Jr., who The New York Times described as “a pillar of his state’s policy of ‘massive resistance’ to the racial integration of schools” during his years as a Democratic state legislator, was elected governor as a Republican in 1973. But Thurmond was the most prominent and the most influential of the party switchers. Over time, he evolved his rhetoric away from the crude language of his 1948 States Rights Democratic Party presidential run and his Senate filibusters to a more politically palatable critique of “Big Government.” The senator would eventually say that, “If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.”

https://billmoyers.com/2014/07/02/when-the-republicans-really-were-the-party-of-lincoln/

Yep, racists gonna race.

Edit to add:

The kneecapped BLM is working to elect Progressive DAs

https://apnews.com/38325cc86ec447c4a7db66734c4fe79b/St.-Louis-DA-victory-latest-for-Black-Lives-Matter-movement

2nd Edit to add:

Sorry to spoil the ending, but Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

I see the abstract, but would

rmrd0000 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:58:11 +0000

In reply to P.S. Mho, you need to check

I see the abstract, but would need to fork over $35.95 to get to how the study was done and the conclusions.

He had an internal change of

rmrd0000 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:52:54 +0000

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He had an internal change of heart. The Democratic alternative was already there. He rejected the stench of Trump.

P.S. Mho, you need to check

artappraiser — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:46:48 +0000

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P.S. Mho, you need to check this social science paper out!

What did you read this morning? Just out, on differences in negativity biases in news selection w/ @sbachleda @FabianNeuner @LGuggen @pat_fournier & Elin Naurin #PolComm @UM_CommStudies @umisrcps @CSDC_CECD https://t.co/q6D1C088gS
— Stuart Soroka (@s_soroka) November 26, 2019

Are you saying black Harvard

rmrd0000 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:44:03 +0000

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Are you saying black Harvard students have more trust in Cambridge police?