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This is one of the few articles about East St. Louis that doesn't mention the strip clubs.

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Them is some mean knee grows from Illinois aint that where the tyrant street organizer thug Bamz is from

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More like a Freudian intestinal urgency.

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A nine-year-old kid recognizes that fucker is worth taking the time to insult, <i>without</i> possessing any knowledge of his terrible canon of hate-arrhea at White Devil Review? THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

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"White devil" used to be a common term in the pages of Muhammad Speaks, the weekly newspaper of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims).

Of course, we're talking about Chicago in the 1960s so it was pretty much the literal accurate term.

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Williamson is right. The level of deterioration in East St. Louis since Obama took office is truly shocking. Under the previous 10 presidents it was a charming garden-city with public libraries and parks on every block. Why, in the Reagan years there were so many manufacturing jobs, they had to send the extra ones to China.

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...well should I go a extended diatribe about the time a 8 year old called me a "darkie" in a Denny's in central Florida? Or the time when I was younger and decided to wear some overalls(don't ask, it was a phase) and a 10 year old said I looked like a "Nigger Hillbilly"? I can go if you want

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Yeah, I'm having serious doubts that this little dogwhistle-y tale is without embellishment.

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25 cents to read that crap? Can't fartknocker pay for this too?

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Well, that was...vile.

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Well, I didn't know who this person is, but now I do. Thanks, Wonkette! He seems nice.

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Black kids?

The horror! The horror!

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