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14. Why are you calling adult black males "boys"?

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 10:51 AM

Nov 2017

Calling a grown black man "boy" was something that whites did in the Jim Crow south and there are racist undertones to this.

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What was trump thinking? Turbineguy Nov 2017 #1

Everyone knows you do not go to China and commit any sort of crime. Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #6

china theft... johnnylol Nov 2017 #9

The kind of guys who steal propaganda posters in North Korea. Nitram Nov 2017 #11

Trump needs this. Freethinker65 Nov 2017 #3

Why shouldn't they be prosecuted exboyfil Nov 2017 #4

At what age do people stop being kids nowdays? LisaL Nov 2017 #12

My question is ... what were THEY thinking??!!?? secondwind Nov 2017 #5

Right. That's an issue of major importance to national security. Nitram Nov 2017 #10

Let's wait till we hear the whole story Abouttime Nov 2017 #13

Why are you calling adult black males "boys"? EL34x4 Nov 2017 #14

Young men, kids did you ever read what I wrote? Abouttime Nov 2017 #15