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You're both wrong, this isn't the crazy teenybopper 1980's we're talking about, but the 1880's.

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Remember, the Battle of the Alamo was fought because Texas wanted to KEEP their slaves.

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So does Mark Foley. And that wide stance guy. And...

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Prommie: Offhand, I'd say the only one you missed was" niggerstick," the baseball bat parked on the bottom rung of the obligatory pickup truck rear window gunrack.

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Sands Souci

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Don't forget the Pekin, Illinois, high school "Chinks."

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Too bad Mr. Cain has already walked it back.

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I am offering an official, temporary, dispensation on the use of Niggerhead on behalf of all black folks. It makes me cringe, but it is worth it if it gets this lunatic out of the race. (hehe, race) I just love all the anchors trying not to say it, it is so precious. And as for Herm Cain, as Dave Chappelle said " that nigga says nigger all the time"

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It's heritage, not hatred!

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Not sure, but i hear that rick perry sucks dicks.

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Remember the old Snagglepuss cartoon?

"They said Whitney was crazy. They said Edison was crazy. They said Throckmorton was crazy."

"Who was 'Throckmorton'?"

"My uncle. He was crazy."

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SE:

Am I the only person astonished that the right wing nutz, in their froth of faux indignation about the Obama family taking a vacation on Martha's Vineyard (a traditional Summer resort for East Coast Black folks), never managed to work that name into their stories?

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More like Dickhead. Throckmorton trends right.

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"My parents wrote that in the early '80s" is the best you got? I remember the early '80s and it wasn't acceptable then, either. Admittedly, I'm not from Texas, so I may have been rasied differently when it comes to slurs.

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What the hell were they hunting at this camp?

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So what on earth makes anyone think that being a racist ass is a bad thing to republicans? As far as I can tell, being a bigot is right up there with "I love Ronald Reagan" as their big vote getters.

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