re: Identity Politics are being used to divide this Country like no other time

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Grow some balls and at least act like man you pussy.

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Coming from liberals who still have not stopped reeeeing about Trump.

I'll take that as a compliment. And you live in Albany according to your profile. That's punishment enough.

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1) Defund the police
2) Reparations for slavery
3) Guaranteed income for minorities
4) Free college and open admissions
5) Political prisoners in jails to be released
6) Voting age lowered to 16

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This has to be a brilliant maneuver of some sort to get all the militia sleeper cells of jimbo's and Billy joes to out themselves. Bravo, black panthers. I see you

Crime creates a lot of poverty. Businesses in areas of high crime face higher rates of shoplifting which cause higher prices for everyone there. Some insurance policies don't cover "domestic violence." That means when your store gets burned down, the owner eats it. If the business is located where "domestic violence" has a much higher rate of happening, even if you can buy insurance it will cost more. The net result of this is businesses stay away, jobs aren't there.

If poverty caused crime the rural South almost anytime in the last 150 years would be the most crime-prone place in the country, but it is not.

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I have never dated anyone of the same race since I was 19 years old and my father and my brother have loved every person that I've ever dated like they were their own son or brother. 
'These are people that I have brought home, that my sweet mama has cooked for and given everything to'.

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Her name is Lindsay McMichael btw. That took longer for me to figure out than finding the article

And btw sonny, full disclosure, this is the same daughter that caused all hell to break loose posting a pic of Arbery's dead body on IG several weeks ago. And her excuse was weird as frick. Something to the tune of "I'm a huge crime CSI buff and just found it interesting". Im paraphrasing but thats pretty close

So again, im firmly in the "wait till all the info is out" camp too

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Your racist commander in chief is the most divisive president in history, and the biggest abuser of identity politics, even if both sides are guilty. If you can't understand why people are upset that the police murdered an unarmed, handcuffed black man in the streets, and this being a far too common occurence, then I don't know what to tell you. I realize almost all of you here worship at the feet of Donald Trump and he can do no wrong, so anything I say won't matter, and I'll be called every name in the book. So be it. This country is already divided, in how blacks and whites experience life and in the incredible inequality between the elites and everyone else. Unless things change, this country is f**ked.

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Donald Trump isn’t divisive, he’s the result of an already divided nation created by Barack Obama. You can’t present any real evidence to prove Trump is divisive or racist. All you have is tv told you so.

The frick are you babbling about. 50% of this country would cheer for North Korea if trump engaged them in conflict. When he had the economy on fire and checking off his campaign promises like a man possessed they wanted him disgraced and removed from office for a bullshite joke of a reason. And tried to convince the country he was shredding the constitution. Now he's supposed to coddle these unwashed assholes??

Trump's claim that "MAGA loves black people" is both a lie and a tacit admission that MAGA doesn't include black people. With Trump everything is always us vs them.

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You can’t present any real evidence to prove Trump is divisive or racist.

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Saying that some neo-Nazis are "very fine people."

Saying that Jews who don't vote for Republicans are "disloyal."

Saying that he doesn't want immigrants from Haiti, but instead wants immigrants from Norway.

Retweeting someone who said "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat."

Banning all non-citizen/resident Muslims from traveling to the United States.

Calling Mexicans rapists.

Telling Rep. Ayanna Presley to "go back to her country."

Saying that the judge presiding over the Trump University lawsuit must recuse himself because he is a Latino.

Saying "what you are seeing and reading is not what's happening."

Telling our allies to go frick themselves while he licks and sucks on Xi, Putin, Kim, Erdogan, and the Taliban's balls.

But then again, you probably agree with every single one of these items and don't see them as divisive to begin with.

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I absolutely agree that Trump is not a rhetorical healer. I absolutely agree that Trump is not a voice of calm when it comes to race relations. But do you think the media would let him if he honestly tried?

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Dude, you have to read this to yourself out loud. In what other walk of life is this a logical way to evaluate anyone?

Josh is an a-hole to customers. It's hard to please these people, though. They wouldn't appreciate it even if he was polite (aka did his job). Josh gets a pass!

Coach Joe widens divisions between his players and now the team is ripping itself apart and can't function, but those kids would probably still hate each other even if he tried to unify them (aka did his job). Coach Joe gets a pass!

Ms. Robinson spends half of class watching television or publicly airing her feuds with other teachers. She doesn't know the lesson plans, and grades students almost exclusively by how they talk about her. Honestly, though, those children don't really care about learning so they wouldn't appreciate it if she tried. She gets a pass!

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I think he was quiet for the first 2 days because there wasn't anything that he could say which wouldn't be twisted as insensitive.

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Everyone knows that Trump is divisive

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The media would never lie. Amiright?

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This one is not on the media. It just isn't.

Know why even the most fiery presidents almost exclusively used muted language when it came to contentious issues? Because peace and harmony are good for the country. Treating the office with respect prompts others around the world to treat the nation with respect. Go find the most racist president in our history and check out his language in public - especially the words he wrote. Almost all of it is calm, erudite, planned out, and unifying.

The President of a corporation or a country can not talk like the average Joe. You lose that right because it's counter productive, and the country is more important than one man's whims or ego.

Is it too much to ask that we judge the President of the United States of America by at least the standard we have for the 16 year old kid at the drive through? Don't publicly air out your feuds. Don't use this job to settle scores. Behave with respect and dignity.

It's one thing to slip up a couple of times, but this guy is incapable of finding a frick to give about anything but himself and his poll numbers even with literal disease, destitution, and division everywhere.