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struggle4progress

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2. "I heard there were actually black folk voting! I don't know any black folk! I don't think I even

Reply to lalalu (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:37 PM

Nov 2012

know anybody who knows any black folk! If they do, they sure don't talk about it! So now I want to know how it could have happened that black folk were voting here in Maine! You know I'm not prejudiced! I mean, if I had any friends, I'm sure some of them would be black. But where did they all come from? See what I mean?Were they even citizens? Where did they all come from, Kenya?"

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Mysterious black people voting in Maine [View all] lalalu Nov 2012 OP

Yep...dozens of 'em mzteaze Nov 2012 #1

It just makes you shake your head. lalalu Nov 2012 #4

"I heard there were actually black folk voting! I don't know any black folk! I don't think I even struggle4progress Nov 2012 #2

LOL lalalu Nov 2012 #3

JuanitaJean says: Downwinder Nov 2012 #6

I heard Somalia and that they didn't speak English. juajen Nov 2012 #19

The come out and vote on election day and then calico1 Nov 2012 #5

No one sees them the rest of the year. lalalu Nov 2012 #7

They're like Brigadoon. drm604 Nov 2012 #9

Nice lalalu Nov 2012 #11

"nobody in (these) towns knows anyone who's black"- time to get out and meet your constituents demhottie Nov 2012 #8

Good points lalalu Nov 2012 #10

"and they said...oh my goodness, these black people just fell from the sky!" renegade000 Nov 2012 #12

LMAO lalalu Nov 2012 #13

Yawl are too much!! MightyAfrodite Nov 2012 #14

I think a yawl is a boat. You mean ya'll, contraction for you all? juajen Nov 2012 #20

Yes, but I thought the context ... MightyAfrodite Nov 2012 #23

Don't know who all this 'mysterious' black people were... CoffinEd Nov 2012 #15

I wonder... HuskyOffset Nov 2012 #16

I wish.. mzteaze Nov 2012 #17

Silly black people! jcgoldie Nov 2012 #18

I could NOT believe he said that....."but nobody in these towns knows anyone who's black" a kennedy Nov 2012 #21

That was my reaction too. lalalu Nov 2012 #22