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Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:24 PM Jun 2019

Biden is just so "hurtful"

The way he hugs people makes me uncomfortable and his big leering smile. It’s also hurtful that he said it was okay to mock gay people. In fact he actually mocked a gay waiter five years ago plus he believes in segregation and worked with segregationists to keep schools separate and unequal. And I am black and when I was four my first real friend friend, Anna Campanella wasn’t allowed to play with me after her dad got home from work cuz I’m black ( that part is true). So you see he is very, very hurtful.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Biden is just so "hurtful" (Original Post) Dream Girl Jun 2019 OP
Great post...haha Demsrule86 Jun 2019 #1
Post removed Post removed Jun 2019 #2
Not me. This is my third time at the open primary DU rodeo wyldwolf Jun 2019 #5
Cool Story, Bro , ! stonecutter357 Jun 2019 #6
This post doesn't help Biden bluewater Jun 2019 #3
Exactly!!! LovingA2andMI Jun 2019 #4
K&R stonecutter357 Jun 2019 #7
My grandfather was a sharecropper videohead5 Jun 2019 #8
Well said DG. Sorry what you had to go through growing up still_one Jun 2019 #9
It wasn't hurtful back then. My parents who were both from Alabama let me know it was just Dream Girl Jun 2019 #11
It was personal, and you rolled with the punches, which I admire you for. Growing up in Iowa still_one Jun 2019 #14
You forgot the "snowflakes" part. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2019 #10
I thought about it. Dream Girl Jun 2019 #12
I believe it. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2019 #13
You are mocking a POC who shared her memories and feelings? mcar Jun 2019 #15
She is a tough cookie. Would she have said the same to Trump? Dream Girl Jun 2019 #16
She scripted the use of her memories and feelings for political gain and to wound Biden madville Jun 2019 #17
 

Demsrule86

(68,689 posts)
1. Great post...haha
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:34 PM
Jun 2019
Sorry about your friend...I was married young and had a child...my oldest daughter was not allowed to play with some of the kids in the small Connecticut town I lived in at the time because we were divorced...crazy now right? but it hurt her, and I still hate those peopl.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

Response to Dream Girl (Original post)

 

wyldwolf

(43,870 posts)
5. Not me. This is my third time at the open primary DU rodeo
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:41 PM
Jun 2019

Here’s a general rule. It may be Biden’s time right now. But in a matter of days Negative attention will be sent towards Harris or Warren or Booker or whoever, and
there will be a new round of spinning
and pouting.

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bluewater

(5,376 posts)
3. This post doesn't help Biden
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:38 PM
Jun 2019

Mocking fellow Democrats by misrepresenting their positions is not a good look.

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LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)
4. Exactly!!!
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:41 PM
Jun 2019

Sarcasm or not -- this is a highly questionable post.

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Undecided
 

videohead5

(2,181 posts)
8. My grandfather was a sharecropper
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:51 PM
Jun 2019

He and my grandmother were very poor during the depression. My mother told me there was a black lady that knew how to help people if they had a minor medical problem. Like one of my uncles would not nurse when he was a baby and the lady came up with something that worked. My mother told me that my grandmother wanted the black lady to come in and eat with her but she would always refuse because back then that's the way it was.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Joe Biden
 

still_one

(92,404 posts)
9. Well said DG. Sorry what you had to go through growing up
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 02:55 PM
Jun 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
11. It wasn't hurtful back then. My parents who were both from Alabama let me know it was just
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:07 PM
Jun 2019

How some people were, so I didn’t take it personally. Anna would play together all day and then around 5 or 6 hem mom who was Italian and spoke no English would come and get her. It was time for dinner anyway so wasn’t that big a deal. In the scheme of things it would not count as racism that I internalized but was my first lesson in racism. I think at the time we both just found it confusing. Anna was a little bit older than me and she explained that he dad didn’t like “colored”people. This was in Cleveland, Ohio in the mid 60s.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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still_one

(92,404 posts)
14. It was personal, and you rolled with the punches, which I admire you for. Growing up in Iowa
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:55 PM
Jun 2019

as a Jew, there were some very personal encounters I had with the neighborhood kids, and while eventually things did smooth over somewhat, it left a mark that carries through to this day.

That you remember the details so vividly, tells me you were impacted by what happened also







If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,436 posts)
10. You forgot the "snowflakes" part.
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:03 PM
Jun 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

mcar

(42,375 posts)
15. You are mocking a POC who shared her memories and feelings?
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 04:41 PM
Jun 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
16. She is a tough cookie. Would she have said the same to Trump?
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 05:59 PM
Jun 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

madville

(7,412 posts)
17. She scripted the use of her memories and feelings for political gain and to wound Biden
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 06:04 PM
Jun 2019

Even started selling T-shirts to commemorate the scripted debate attack and the funny part is trying to capitalize and fundraise off that moment has already turned off most that were initially sympathetic.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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