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Old 01-16-2013, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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At the presentation of whatever the President and his VP did today about guns Obama presented those 4 kids who had written him letters about gun control and then he told a bit about what each of the 3 white kids had said in their letters and failed to mention the little black boy at all. It sure looked to me like racial discrimination, but maybe I don't know what discrimination is. Maybe his speech writers left that kid out. Maybe the teleprompter person forgot to include him. I don't know what happened but I am sure that whatever happened this will be brought to his attention and can only imagine the embarrassment he will probably feel when is told what he did. Hopefully someone will say something to him about this. I can see the bloggers going wild about it right now.
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Old 01-16-2013, 10:58 AM
 
Location: CHicago, United States
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... but maybe I don't know what discrimination is.
Oh, I think you're familiar enough with the disease to recognize it.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:05 AM
 
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I didn't see it. So are you saying that he surrounded himself with white kids or are they letters from white kids and no black kids?
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I didn't see it. So are you saying that he surrounded himself with white kids or are they letters from white kids and no black kids?
No...the kids were there...4 in total...3 white and 1 black...they were chosen because they had written letters to Obama about their thoughts on guns.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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I didn't see it. So are you saying that he surrounded himself with white kids or are they letters from white kids and no black kids?
I am saying that he had four kids on the stage next to him. Two little white girls and two boys (one black and one white). He quoted parts of the white kids letters and did manage to hug the black boy at the end along with the white kids.

The Fox News cameras were on the parents of that one little girl, Grace, that Obama went on about for so long and sitting on the left of the grieving mother was an old man who either was asleep leaning on her shoulder or dead.

The best part of the whole thing was when Obama got to sign three papers on a little table in front of those kids. He said he was signing the 23 executive whatevers and asked the kids if any of them was left-handed. One girl raised her right hand seemingly saying she was.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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No...the kids were there...4 in total...3 white and 1 black...they were chosen because they had written letters to Obama about their thoughts on guns.
But one of them was just there since Obama did not quote any part of his letter and he just happened to be the cute little black boy.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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It sure looked to me like racial discrimination.
That's because you are a hater so obsessed with the race of this president that you are not capable of understanding anything except through the lens of your malevolent animosity.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:28 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Oh, I think you're familiar enough with the disease to recognize it.
I see that you didn't see I Won's performance.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:30 AM
 
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It sure looked to me like racial discrimination, but maybe I don't know what discrimination is.
I'm sure you have some idea.

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I can see the bloggers going wild about it right now
Yeah, they've got the time to go wild about anything apparently...
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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That's because you are a hater so obsessed with the race of this president that you are not capable of understanding anything except through the lens of your malevolent animosity.
Well yeah, but I Won did ignore whatever the black kid wrote him. Maybe you need to see the performance so you can see that little kid get ignored the way it happened.

At least it is not the race of I Won that bothers me although you could never believe that. Being against I Won is nothing but racial hatred to leaners.
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