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 Not really. |
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Jan 20th 2024 | 1
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 RE: Not really. |
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Jan 20th 2024 | 2
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| when I was 6 or 7 I was at the movie theater |
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Jan 21st 2024 | 3
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| RE: when I was 6 or 7 I was at the movie theater |
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Jan 21st 2024 | 5
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| My school hated seeing my mom walk into the front office |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 11
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| RE: My school hated seeing my mom walk into the front office |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 23
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| 16 years old, got invited to a "white party" |
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Jan 21st 2024 | 4
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| yeah but it was a more realistic approach |
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Jan 21st 2024 | 6
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| RE: yeah but it was a more realistic approach |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 24
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| yeah i think i was in the 4th or 5th grade |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 33
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| RE: yeah i think i was in the 4th or 5th grade |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 38
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| nope. |
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Jan 21st 2024 | 7
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 RE: nope. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 25
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 he hasn't had a good life. |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 27
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| Thats sad. |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 37
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| wtf? why did she say that shit? |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 30
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| All THE time. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 8
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| This. I grew up around mostly black people, and that shaped my outlook |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 13
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| RE: All THE time. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 26
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| They would school me on a situational basis. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 9
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| I got that book for my birthday. Just started it. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 12
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| RE: They would school me on a situational basis. |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 94
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| Yes, from as early as I can remember too |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 10
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| RE: Yes, from as early as I can remember too |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 39
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| (White) |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 14
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| What was the conversation(s) like? |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 15
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| Don't trust whitey? |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 16
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| LOL |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 17
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| That's dope - for real. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 18
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| Yea I was very lucky. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 19
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| Yeah that's pretty cool. |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 20
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| Yea for sure. |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 28
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| RE: Yea for sure. |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 40
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| how racist was he? |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 36
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| From a scale of Archie Bunker to David Duke? |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 56
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| Definitely Archie Bunker |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 61
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| this was my first thought. like, how do these 2 ppl meet and link? |
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Jan 26th 2024 | 84
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| Only After I Encountered It Firsthand |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 21
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| Man, every story I hear makes it sound like "Bussing" was just a bad ide... |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 29
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| We Earned Those Educational Opportunities |
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Jan 28th 2024 | 90
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| Port Richmond or Richmond, VA? |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 82
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| RE: Port Richmond |
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Jan 28th 2024 | 89
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| not really but |
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Jan 22nd 2024 | 22
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| I’m looking at MSC cruises and Black folk keep talking about racism |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 32
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| I quit teaching at a school |
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Feb 18th 2024 | 113
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| My wife was hit by a latino kid in HS. |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 116
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| first time it really hit home. 5th grade |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 31
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| RE: first time it really hit home. 5th grade |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 41
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| they were not friends |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 44
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| yep, total wake up call |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 45
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| I grew up in a segregated Austin |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 34
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| "I didn't have to have a talk about racism. I lived it." |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 47
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| I guess its different if you lived it and dont talk about it |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 49
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| Wasn't nothing to talk about really |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 51
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| I think everyone had a first time |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 52
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| My childhood wasnt like that |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 54
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| my kids were doing geometry at 18 months |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 59
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| Homie theres VHS Im not on a Katt Williams |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 62
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| Look how he swipes YOUR life experience away bc HE cant understand it |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 64
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| RE: Look how he swipes YOUR life experience away bc HE cant understand i... |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 68
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| RE: Homie theres VHS Im not on a Katt Williams |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 74
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| RE: Homie theres VHS Im not on a Katt Williams |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 75
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| i have a friend who intentionally has very little discussions about raci... |
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Jan 28th 2024 | 91
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| From reading stories that folks posted looks as if things happened |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 50
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| But wasn't every body here immersed? |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 53
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| Who would be smug about being aware of race early? |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 55
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| Fam, you could have just said your Folks didn't talk to you about race. |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 69
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| It woudlve ended with the same paragraph |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 70
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| Also I think you misunderstand me about intelligence |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 71
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| I’m reading his post in a Ronnie Mathis voice |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 60
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| Lol, bruh |
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Jan 28th 2024 | 86
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| maybe its not intentional |
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Feb 14th 2024 | 110
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| yep but my father told me to never focus on it |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 35
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| RE: yep but my father told me to never focus on it |
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Jan 23rd 2024 | 42
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| RE: yep but my father told me to never focus on it |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 58
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| Is your dad Carribean or African? |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 46
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| no he's from rural Georgia |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 57
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| this is pretty dope. |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 97
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| Sounds like Condeleeza Rice’s parents |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 48
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| I took the subway and 2 busses to school. Plenty of time to listen to PE |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 43
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| good stuff |
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Jan 24th 2024 | 63
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| The expat adventures are so valuable |
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Jan 28th 2024 | 87
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| I'm Black & born in 76, so yes...but here's the thing: |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 65
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| Good post.. my daughter is 8 and will speak on folks skin color |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 66
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| Here's the current "struggle" for us. Going back home to NC to visit... |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 67
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| lmao.. see, that sounds like normal convo for a Black household |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 72
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| Yeah I'm not saying it wrong, but I recognized long ago it was the root |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 73
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| word. I wonder if this is a southern thing |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 77
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| Possibly; it's not as pronounced on my wife's side. They from the D. |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 78
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| ahhh, the new negro argument. I respectfully disagree |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 76
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| Its a balancing act. My kids are too young for Black ish |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 79
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| Two things: |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 81
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| *shrugs* not an argument for me. This is how we've chosen to raise |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 80
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| IDK. I see this "doesn't diminish her self impression" talk though |
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Jan 25th 2024 | 83
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| Indeed |
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Jan 28th 2024 | 88
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| How you put Nat Turner, Black Panthers and Bernhard Goetz in the same |
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Jan 29th 2024 | 92
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| Goetz??? You mean Colin Ferguson right. |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 98
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| Goetz was NYC subway in the 80's, Ferguson was LIRR in the 90's |
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Feb 13th 2024 | 103
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| Why doesnt Ferguson belong? |
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Feb 18th 2024 | 114
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| Yes, and.... |
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Jan 26th 2024 | 85
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| Im taking a wild guess |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 99
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| WAF |
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Feb 13th 2024 | 104
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| RE: WAF |
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Feb 18th 2024 | 115
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| My mom was a Black Panther in Chicago in the 60s. |
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Jan 30th 2024 | 93
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| RE: My mom was a Black Panther in Chicago in the 60s. |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 100
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| Basically you can't do what your white friends do, |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 95
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| This brings a second post to mind |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 101
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| My mom told me not to trust ofays lol |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 96
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| RE: My mom told me not to trust ofays lol |
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Feb 12th 2024 | 102
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| RE: got called a nigger so much by the time I went to school |
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Feb 13th 2024 | 105
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| Damn, bro. Where'd you grow up? |
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Feb 13th 2024 | 106
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| NC |
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Feb 13th 2024 | 107
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| umm.. where do you live in NC? |
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Feb 14th 2024 | 109
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| I don't live there anymore |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 117
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| whew, drive by there on my way to Southport on 74. |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 120
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| RE: 74? oh you know all about it then |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 121
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| I know to get food and gas and get back on the highway.. lol |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 122
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| RE: oh its super segregated like that |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 123
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| Yikes...my wife is from down there (Nakina right outside Whiteville) |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 124
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| RE: never been there but I've heard about it |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 125
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| Yeah...when we dated in college in the 90s/00s, I'd drive down there |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 126
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| RE: you ain't kidding |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 127
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| RE: NC |
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Feb 18th 2024 | 111
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| RE: that I don't know |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 118
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| RE:EDIT 2014 not 2017 |
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Feb 19th 2024 | 119
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| Not really |
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Feb 13th 2024 | 108
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| RE: Not really |
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Feb 18th 2024 | 112
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