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Old 07-09-2020, 09:14 AM
 
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You think there isn't colorism and tribalism in Africa? African Americans qualify for a lot of affirmative action and preferential treatment and the complaining still never ends.
What is in Africa should stay in Africa. That lesson was not learned, and now you have this.
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Old 07-09-2020, 09:16 AM
 
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What is in Africa should stay in Africa. That lesson was not learned, and now you have this.
Wrong. The problem is HOW and WHY Black people were brought here. Being brought here under duress and only for the purpose of being slaves, that is not a good place to start. Immigrating to a place voluntarily and being free, that is more positive.
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Old 07-09-2020, 09:26 AM
 
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What is in Africa should stay in Africa. That lesson was not learned, and now you have this.
Well it's too late for that. The big problem isn't blacks, but the left forces counter culture and counter voters upon white America. No one wants to physically leave America for else where, they just want to scapegoat and impose upon white people. But some want to secede and should be allowed to do so.
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Old 07-09-2020, 09:33 AM
 
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Well it's too late for that. The big problem isn't blacks, but the left forces counter culture and counter voters upon white America. No one wants to physically leave America for else where, they just want to scapegoat and impose upon white people. But some want to secede and should be allowed to do so.
The problem for both the right and left is low income blacks. That’s what all politics are about in the end. Just think of how different your country would have been if the ancestors would not have made their biggest mistake ever. Tell me what other countries are involved in ongoing black-white conflicts other than there US and others in the west? None. We all know why that is.

I do want to physically leave America. The problem is that I don’t have a country that I belong in no matter what.
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Old 07-09-2020, 09:53 AM
 
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The problem for both the right and left is low income blacks. That’s what all politics are about in the end. Just think of how different your country would have been if the ancestors would not have made their biggest mistake ever. Tell me what other countries are involved in ongoing black-white conflicts other than there US and others in the west? None. We all know why that is.

I do want to physically leave America. The problem is that I don’t have a country that I belong in no matter what.
Just about all white Western countries now even the ones that never historical imported black slaves are being imposed upon by people from all over the world. I told you before the problem is we are being placed under misguided and misplaced revenge policies for what a non-American subgroup within a subgroup once did in the 1940s. We need to secede from these policies.
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Old 07-09-2020, 09:55 AM
 
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I have this idea, should be easy to fix, just a little wording on some laws and paperwork. Instead of asking folks to identify as a certain race or color when filling out paperwork, applying for government assistance, applying for loans, etc. Let's make an easy change where instead of asking what race someone is, ask them this:

Do you identify as an American or non-American?

Too many people are making this about race, so let's just eliminate race in the eyes of the government, end all rights, protections, laws, language, anything that ever was done to help a race or a people, just eliminate all speak about race.

Problem solved. You're either an American or you're not.
So when police pull someone over they put a blindfold on and just ask the person if they are American? Wish it were that easy!
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Old 07-09-2020, 10:07 AM
 
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So when police pull someone over they put a blindfold on and just ask the person if they are American? Wish it were that easy!
Driver's license serves as ID and should identify someone's status as a citizen or noncitizen or legal resident and whether they can do certain things like drive or vote.
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Old 07-09-2020, 10:21 AM
 
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So when police pull someone over they put a blindfold on and just ask the person if they are American? Wish it were that easy!
Like I said several posts earlier, we live in a society where people see race first, not nationality. I might be American, but people will notice my skin color before they notice whether or not I'm American. And many people react to others based on how they look. Until that changes, making race categories illegal won't solve anything.
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Old 07-09-2020, 10:27 AM
 
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Just about all white Western countries now even the ones that never historical imported black slaves are being imposed upon by people from all over the world. I told you before the problem is we are being placed under misguided and misplaced revenge policies for what a non-American subgroup within a subgroup once did in the 1940s. We need to secede from these policies.
I don’t care. I’m black and unwanted. I don’t belong in any country and will be leaving this one soon.
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Old 07-09-2020, 10:30 AM
 
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Like I said several posts earlier, we live in a society where people see race first, not nationality. I might be American, but people will notice my skin color before they notice whether or not I'm American. And many people react to others based on how they look. Until that changes, making race categories illegal won't solve anything.
Every foreigner I have met tells me I don’t look like I am from the US. Americans have told me that I don’t look like a normal black American but from Africa or an island somewhere. That is the truth and it says a lot.
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