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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI agree with Bill de Blasio.
Colored People Time is real and black people are always super lazy and late. But it's funny because he clearly didn't mean it so why is it a big deal??Fucking. Hilarious.
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I agree with Bill de Blasio. (Original Post)
DFab420
Apr 2016
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Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)1. Is the new Bernie supporter meme?
That Bill de Blasio is a racist?
Good luck with that.
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)2. It is all over the media today
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)8. Gosh, I saw nothing on google news or yahoo news
do you mean on teevee?
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)9. Yep I think she was on CNN and claimed it isn't her fault
Because it was DeBlasio's script, she was the victim
rachacha
(173 posts)10. She said she'll "defer to him" on that. That means "throw him under the limo"
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)11. She might want to have that suspension checked out...
She's thrown so many people under there I'm worried the shocks might be shot
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)3. Grr, why does Bill de Blasio hate black people so much?!
hellofromreddit
(1,182 posts)4. I agree with you
DFab420
(2,466 posts)5. It's not about hating black people. It's about re-enforcing racial stereotypes so engrained in our
culture that even a man who by all accounts is blind to race can make an offhand joke about an entire group of people that casts them as layabouts.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)6. Ding a ling.. Same with Bill C
I don't think he is racist, but he is tone deaf surely.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)7. If trump or cruz had said such a disgusting thing what would you be saying?
Will you be honest?
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)12. you post is almost identical to your other post
black folks aren't upset why are you?