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In reply to the discussion: So fine! The racist rail passenger and the elderly black conductor who kept his cool [View all]AnneD
(15,774 posts)44. Thanks for the kind words...
I generally post in the Economy group, Stock Market Watch. But I sometimes venture in other areas, especially when I encounter rampant ignorance and massive misplaced righteous anger.
Yeah, 20 years as a Nurse has given me a very clear vision as to the human place in the scheme of things. I am to old to swallow BS any more and I don't tolerate fools. I frequently teach thing over and over and it doesn't bother me....I can deal with ignorance, it is stupidity that I can't abide.
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So fine! The racist rail passenger and the elderly black conductor who kept his cool [View all]
DFW
Aug 2012
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That's because cops here act like everybody who doesn't conform should go to jail.
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2012
#11
A bigger point I notice is how in "post racial America" how open racism is thrown out there.
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2012
#25
They'd go out of their way to crack a billy club over the head of an Occupy'er...
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#33
Or maybe the cops are the rule, not the exception you want them to be
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Aug 2012
#67
I've worked with cops. Some are okay and know who the ones are with the wrong attitude....
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2012
#69
Awesome rant. Wish I could rec your response and that more could read it. - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#31
I'm elderly. I'm white. I'm not a racist. Same for all my elderly, white friends.
nichomachus
Aug 2012
#53
I am 74 and while I was raised in the Pacific Northwest, my parents were raised in the south
classof56
Aug 2012
#62
Thank you....Neither were either of my elderly parents who would be, respectively,
whathehell
Aug 2012
#71
re:So fine! The racist rail passenger and the elderly black conductor who kept his cool
allan01
Aug 2012
#55