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stui magpie wrote:
Jezza wrote:Next time I visit the supermarket I'm buying 'Coon Cheese' and 'Coco Pops' ;)
Get some Chicos and Redskins from the lolly aisle, some Uncle Ben's microwave rice, some Stubbs BBQ sauce and some Aunt Jemimah pancake mix and syrup while you're there.
Then he can brush his teeth using Darkie toothpaste:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXS9qTsb3U
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Oh Wow. :shock:

Something else the Chinese have to answer for. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-w ... -favourite

And it ironically took a US company to buy the company and change the name and packaging, 30 years ago.
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The world.
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Can you narrow it down a tad? :P
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Only in NASCAR country.


https://www.cbssports.com/nascar/news/n ... immediate/
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Considering the prevalence of hate crime hoaxes I'll wait for the wash up on this before getting outraged.
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Hate crime hoaxes in the US - a short list:







Please feel free to add additional details and links (memes not accepted).
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http://fakehatecrimes.org/

https://quillette.com/2019/02/22/hate-c ... you-think/
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What'sinaname wrote:Only in NASCAR country.


https://www.cbssports.com/nascar/news/n ... immediate/
judging by the people lining up to support him , i doubt its fake. thats really bloody disgusting. nascar is definitely redneck city, and i confess i love it! but thats just not on
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think positive wrote:
What'sinaname wrote:Only in NASCAR country.


https://www.cbssports.com/nascar/news/n ... immediate/
judging by the people lining up to support him , i doubt its fake. thats really bloody disgusting. nascar is definitely redneck city, and i confess i love it! but thats just not on
I highly doubt he did it himself like Jussie Smollet but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if it's a BLM person stirring shit up.
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gees...... it would certainly do that

this really makes me sad.

I have a friend in Georgia, some of her posts are really scary, on a photography page another lady asked for prayers for her and her hubby, both police members in Navada, on the same page so many amazing BLM photos, (not violent ones) none of them want this. i just dont know where it ends
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It ends with lynchings by the Klan. That, of course, is the memory that this latest incident is intended to invoke.
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Pies4shaw wrote:It ends with lynchings by the Klan. That, of course, is the memory that this latest incident is intended to invoke.
oh really? i never would have guessed, thankyou so much for that insight! i mean ive never watched Mississippi burning, Django, A time to kill, just off the top of my head! (no pun intended)

but hopefully thats not where it ends anymore.
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There are about 3000 Klan 'members' nationally out of a population of 330,000,000. It's an insignificant nothing.
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think positive wrote:
Pies4shaw wrote:It ends with lynchings by the Klan. That, of course, is the memory that this latest incident is intended to invoke.
oh really? i never would have guessed, thankyou so much for that insight! i mean ive never watched Mississippi burning, Django, A time to kill, just off the top of my head! (no pun intended)

but hopefully thats not where it ends anymore.
And here we are, come full circle - they do it with guns in Minneapolis and Atlanta, now.
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