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struggle4progress

(118,294 posts) Mon Jul 27, 2015, 08:36 PM Jul 2015

Indiana man shot after defending Confederate flag with a machete isn’t a racist!

MONDAY, JUL 27, 2015 03:36 PM EDT
SCOTT ERIC KAUFMAN

An Indiana man who was shot while flying a Confederate flag in a predominantly black South Bend neighborhood is not a racist, his friend wants the world to know.

The South Bend Tribune’s Erin Blasko reports that Cally Baker, a friend of the victim, insisted that “I’ve never known him to use any racial slurs.”

“Unless someone provoked him,” she added, “I can’t imagine him just blurting out the N-word” ...

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/indiana_man_shot_after_defending_confederate_flag_with_a_machete_isnt_a_racist_friend_insists/

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Indiana man shot after defending Confederate flag with a machete isn’t a racist! (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

“He had absolutely no weapon on him,” Baker said, “except the machete.” johnp3907 Jul 2015 #1

And he only blurts out the N word when provoked. valerief Jul 2015 #2

That's where racism begins and ends for a lot of people; "racial slurs"... I don't think Lincolns... uponit7771 Jul 2015 #3

johnp3907

(3,732 posts)

1. “He had absolutely no weapon on him,” Baker said, “except the machete.”

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 27, 2015, 08:46 PM

Jul 2015

“I just don’t want it to become a huge racial thing.”

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. And he only blurts out the N word when provoked.

Reply to johnp3907 (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 27, 2015, 08:57 PM

Jul 2015

The cognitive dissonance is deafening.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

3. That's where racism begins and ends for a lot of people; "racial slurs"... I don't think Lincolns...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 27, 2015, 09:02 PM

Jul 2015

... succsessor used any racial slurs but he was an ardent racist.

He didn't "hate" blacks either, he just thought lower of blacks because that's all he knew

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