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Except for the two adopted actual black kids in her family (her brothers, one of whom she calls her biological son now).

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Wellif you want to sing outsing out.And if you want to be freebe free.'Cause there's a million things to be.You know that there are.And if you want to live highlive high.And if you want to live lowlive low.'Cause there's a million ways to go.You know that there are.

You can do what you want.The opportunity's on.And if you find a new way

you can do it today.You can make it all true.And you can make it undoyou see.Ahit's easy.Ahyou only need to know.

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This is tied to Obama and Jada Helm....buy my book if you want to know more

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Then is used when passage of time is involved.

"First this then that"

Than is used when comparing.

"This is better than that"

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I thought this was a mommy blog, not a grammar blog.

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I feel this is a loyalty issue. The purity of the white race depends on the purity of white women. Some guys -- in polite society we call them conservatives -- cannot handle white women rejecting their birth race in any form or manner. This lady's offense goes well beyond the Sen. Warren thing, cause you can write Sen. Warren off as fraud. This lady has committed race treason.

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I wasn't aware she had called him her biological son. From what I've seen she's acknowledged that he "used to be her brother" but that she has full custody now.

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Seriously, I am amazed.

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Eh. Ok, it's a bit odd, but If her pals at the Spokane NAACP are cool with it, so what? If not: "All in favor of Bob as Chapter President?": "AYE". "Next item: fall potluck..."

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Wouldn't that be trans-feline? Unless you were born as one of the lizard people in which case trans-mammal seems like it would apply. Not sure why you'd want to give up on the lizard person gig though since they covertly run the world.

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The cool thing in the conservosphere is to headline her "NAACP President" and then maybe somewhere in the small type get around to adding "Spokane."

Not that there's anything wrong with the Athens of the Eastern Washington Prairie.

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He's been slimed by Rush Limbaugh, so it isn't a new experience.

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I am probably doing all kinds of insensitivity and cluelessness here, but I think the better comparison is cosplay taken to the extreme.

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Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

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Hey Wonketters! Check this out.

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I once answered a personal ad in Alameda, CA (back in the day when it was done in the newspapers) where neither party discussed their race. I was cool with any race but never thought to make that explicit. We talked on the phone and I assumed he was white from his speech, but that assumption never made it into my conscious awareness, due to white privilege and assumptions and mostly white social circle. So when we met face to face in the coffee shop I was surprised that he was black, and before we said anything else (after 'hi are you laineypc, yes are you dude whose ad I answered, hi nice to meet you) he said "Are you surprised?" and in that moment I figured it was about the fact he was black, I felt like I was being tested and he was trying to do a 'gotcha' and I didn't like it so I said "Surprised about what?" I did learn something about making assumptions through that event.

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