Step forward Shaun King, Linda Sarsour, and Tamika Mallory to claim your award.

When you accept your award, please do explain how so-called "internationality" can co-exist with someone like Farrakhan. I'm dying to know the answer ot that one.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Farrakhan only exists to appease the extremes on each side.

I can't remember the last time most took him seriously. But that thinking got us trump.

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It seems that in the last few years it has now become acceptable for elected officials to meet with him or praise him.

Despite previously repudiating him, Keith Ellison has met with him on several occasions including visiting his hotel in 2016. Chicago's own Danny Davis just spent the last 2 weeks praising him as well.

Perhaps 5 years ago your statement would've been true, but it seems something has changed.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

It's been about 25 years.

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GO BEARS!!!

Ok, then explain trump. Wrong remains wrong.

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I'd say Trump's win is part of the same specter that has made Farrakhan acceptable in some circles. Racism and bigotry is now 100% OK so long as the racist votes for the same candidates you do. That seems to be the way things are going now.

You and I may see this as wrong, but it appears politicians no longer do as they are cozying up to the extremists.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I've never liked the guy and with One exception 25 years ago, he's never had broader support. But then again he isn't a national politician running on a platform of state's rights, or "making America great again ". Or race.

And certainly not with the undying support of 35% of the country.

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He's gone from being someone no politician would ever touch to now being someone that a deputy DNC chair (with aspirations to become DNC chair) can now meet without repercussions. Just as David Duke went from being a nut who was the butt of jokes and would never be treated seriously to being someone who Trump didn't want to disavow.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I can't stand that bastard, but unlike republicans, I'm not going to defend him either because of other shared views. Like I said, wrong is wrong.

Ask Stephen Miller's, Bannon's or the Czech Nazi sympathizers' defenders or employers to say the same.

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And frankly, Netanyahu isn't much better. They're both scumbag racial opportunists in my book.

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Without repercussions? Dershowitz and Saban smeared the hell out of Ellison for his past Nation of Islam ties during the chair race, and the rest of the establishment Democrats were all too happy to go along with them so they could install corporate stooge Tom Perez instead.

The wisemen need to do something about recent assaults on apostrophes.

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Farrakhan isn't really relevant in the black community anymore and chances are this isn't the first time that he and Obama have spoken. Their homes are about 2 blocks away from one another in the Hyde Park/Kenwood area.

He is a bomb thrower and an anti Semite, though he didn't seem to have a problem with Jewish doctors operating on him when he needed his life saved many years ago.

Speaking with him is one thing but hitching your wagon to him politically is quite another. If any political figures were to come out openly in support of him then they should be condemned.

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Look.At.Their.Scalpels.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I have a different take on Farrakhan. And that is: He's entitled to his ideas. Some may be reprehensible ideas but so what? I don't think there need be any demands for anyone to "denounce" him. People are allowed to have stupid ideas, wrong ideas, even hateful ideas.

That said, these hypocrites deserve to have Farrakhan's ugliest ideas tossed right in their faces because they are so full of shit.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

This reminds me of this old Jewish guy who used to rent office space from me. During part of WWII he was stationed in Africa- I think Morocco- at a hospital. The hospital took care of wounded G.I.s and also prisoners of war. When the German prisoners needed blood he liked to tell them it was "judenblut". One of the Germans said, "Ya, ya, judenblut ist gut!"

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

How many Twitter followers does a Jew-hater need to be taken seriously?

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Just Eugene Gu, MD.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Twitter followers? This guy has high ranking Congressmen and leaders of marches which get millions to show up supporting him and scared to criticize him. If he is so powerless, then why can't they simply condemn him and cut ties with him.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

The real answer is that black antisemitism is seen as separate from and less pernicious than European antisemitism, and thus less necessary to condemn. Blacks who hate Jews because of slumlords or slave merchants haven't carried out exiles, pogroms, or genocides as a result, and even if they wanted to, they've never had the power to do so, so it's handwaved away and more or less left alone as one of those black things outsiders can't understand, like those NBA jackets that have every team's logo on them. The fact that southern blacks all but refused to vote for a Jew in the Democratic primaries was something the media superficially acknowledged without ever exploring, and I wish they had explored it and laid this issue bare.

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I know that a conservative Jewish group put out a statement because I believe 7 or 8 black members of Congress have played footsies with Farrakhan in the past 5 to 10 years to get donations. I guess that's their right. The reality is that the public and at least 95% of the black community doesn't care about him and the folks playing footsies don't exactly have a powerful voice in Congress or black communities.

It's not about blacks hating Jewish people either. I would be willing to wager that the majority of blacks couldn't identify a Jewish person if you paid them. Older blacks LOVE the Clintons. Their votes had NOTHING to do with Thieving Bernie being Jewish. Hell most people probably didn't even know that he was Jewish because he never talked about his faith.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

you piece of shit

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Bernie addressed his faith on numerous occasions, perhaps most notably when Judy Woodruff more or less asked him how he could stand in the way of a woman making history, to which he said that as a child of immigrants whose relatives died in the Holocaust, his victory would be historic in his own right. I thought it was a good answer to her shitty first-of-all-how-dare-you question. And for those who missed the PBS debate, DNC operatives were going to attack him in West Virginia by pointing out that he's an irreligious Jew, allegedly the worst of both worlds. He won the state handily.

But let's get back to Farrakhan. Fuck that guy.

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I agree.

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GO BEARS!!!

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For the record one of the MANY reasons Hillary lost is because blacks stayed at home because they were loyal to Bernie. They were some of the most vocal Berniebros.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Many Bernie supporters ( myself included) stayed home because the DNC and HRC rigged the democratic primary.

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I find that people who grew up in very heavily concentrated Jewish areas tend to overemphasize the impact of anti-Semitism on many things. It exists, but the vast majority of Americans couldn't even spot a Jewish person and likely don't even consciously think about it. There are literally no Jews in a lot of America.

I would be more apt to believe that Southern people in general didn't want Sanders because he was a "haughty" old, Northeastern white man with an accent that sounds elitist. Of course, I don't believe the characterization is true, but I think that is a more accurate description of the perception... at least much more than people simply not liking him because he's a Jew.

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That's at the heart of the anti-Semitism. "There are so few of them but the motherfuckers control EVERYTHING!"

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I don't think Obama is "tied" to Farrakhan. That is a misnomer. Don't know about Ellison. Maybe he is.

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