izquierdista
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Wed Sep-23-09 07:16 PM
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I'd love to hear FDR en francais.
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| -There WAS a time in the past when Americans weren't parochial racist, jingoistic, arrogant fools |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:02 PM |
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Another reason to hate FDR, I guess - He spoke French |
AspenRose |
Sep-23-09 07:04 PM |
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You have got to be kidding. Racism and bigotry were far worse |
virgogal |
Sep-23-09 07:07 PM |
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I begin to doubt that when I hear about lynched Census workers |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:08 PM |
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Then you had better brush up on your history-tolerance of others |
virgogal |
Sep-23-09 07:11 PM |
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I am quite aware of my history. |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:12 PM |
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My response was to your original post,which was comparing today |
virgogal |
Sep-23-09 07:19 PM |
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Oh, you beat me to it. The Japanese camps were pretty fucked up too. nt |
ZombieHorde |
Sep-23-09 07:08 PM |
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Wasn't segregation still prominent in Roosevelt's day? nt |
ZombieHorde |
Sep-23-09 07:08 PM |
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Until the mid 1960's actually. |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:10 PM |
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Uh, when was that? |
BlooInBloo |
Sep-23-09 07:09 PM |
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We are already at "Idiocracy" you only look at the Repugs |
MadMaddie |
Sep-23-09 07:10 PM |
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Parochial racist, jingoistic, arrogant fools have always been |
LiberalAndProud |
Sep-23-09 07:10 PM |
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You aren't |
Prophet 451 |
Sep-23-09 08:38 PM |
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The past was much, much worse |
Confusious |
Sep-23-09 11:28 PM |
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Actually, they were. It wasn't so noticeable in the segregated neighborhoods, |
Cleita |
Sep-23-09 07:11 PM |
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Yep. It was also less visible before we had all the media platforms |
EFerrari |
Sep-23-09 10:00 PM |
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Yeah, it was before the Corporate take over. Back when people were citizens, not just consumers. nt |
anonymous171 |
Sep-23-09 07:11 PM |
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Before that they were laborers |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:12 PM |
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Got a link? |
izquierdista |
Sep-23-09 07:16 PM |
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Just search for Franklin Delano Roosevelt on iTunes and then look through the recordings. |
ddeclue |
Sep-23-09 07:18 PM |
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Tell that to the Japanese Americans or African Americans of the time |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:04 PM |
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Wonderful post.... |
samplegirl |
Sep-23-09 07:20 PM |
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Depends on what layer of the population you are talking about |
nadinbrzezinski |
Sep-23-09 07:21 PM |
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Our elites haven't exactly been the best the world has to offer |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:09 PM |
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I don't think that all of these negative traits |
appamado amata padam |
Sep-23-09 07:34 PM |
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Americans? Which Americans? |
MineralMan |
Sep-23-09 07:55 PM |
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I've been saying that ever since I saw Idiocracy......we are hurling toward |
ladywnch |
Sep-23-09 08:56 PM |
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You have to understand when you are watching that movie |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:10 PM |
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sadly, I know. n/t |
ladywnch |
Sep-23-09 10:56 PM |
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too late. imo |
spanone |
Sep-23-09 09:29 PM |
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I disagree - based on much of the history I've read. |
Cerridwen |
Sep-23-09 09:36 PM |
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No we have always been assholes |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 10:05 PM |
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Untrue. We're better now than we were |
Prism |
Sep-23-09 10:22 PM |
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Every generation thinks that |
TxRider |
Sep-23-09 10:25 PM |
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My Grandmother still spoke a dialect of German |
AllentownJake |
Sep-23-09 11:12 PM |
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That one week in 1972 doesn't really count |
alcibiades_mystery |
Sep-23-09 11:14 PM |
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Dig up a poem by Ebenezer Cooke called "The Sotweed Factor" |
DeltaLitProf |
Sep-23-09 11:42 PM |
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Hard for amyone not my age to understand, but even those of |
efhmc |
Sep-23-09 11:59 PM |
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It's already happened. We're there. |
Greyhound |
Sep-24-09 12:08 AM |
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I'm not really sure there was. nt |
Critters2 |
Sep-24-09 12:11 AM |
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I can't laugh enough how wrong you are. |
Johonny |
Sep-24-09 12:42 AM |
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