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From The Huffington Post: Real estate tycoon Donald Trump's talk about a presidential bid is take your pick: a bad joke, a cheap publicity stunt, or the delusional raving of a guy with too much money, too much ego, and way too much time on his hands to stroke both. But Trump did manage to figure out one angle that was a surefire way to get attention. That was to dredge up the birthers' lie about President Obama.Read more about Trump's desperate ploy at The Huffington Post
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By: acura2010 on 3/26/2011 2:46PM
I read white man Tim Wise books. The man is genuine and describes the bigot white folks who they really are....."DEVILS". Jealous and envy white devils. People of color, put on the whole armour and shield. This is not 1964 and I'm fighting for my descendants whose lives were yanked by these devils.
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By: Bruce on 3/28/2011 11:58AM
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Thanks acura, I'm a white guy and I come to BV to learn about white people. Since all the black people are experts on how white people think and feel, this is a good resource.
After trashing the people with white skin, are you so surprised that they don't hire people with black skin.
Even after they vote for Obama, according to the BV crowd, people with white skin are devils. Interesting.
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By: pink on 3/27/2011 10:12AM
@DJ: I am not a defender of Trump; but what I think he was trying to say is that she looks more natural with her (REAL) lips; not lips that were pumped with silicon. Did u see Lisa's lips before she had the silicon (are what ever was pumped into her lips) removed?? For those of us that did see her lips; we know what he was eluding to.
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By: pink on 3/27/2011 10:13AM
@acura2010: I hear yeah, and I'm going 2 read Tim Wise's book bc I like 2 observe all points of view. However, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that a lot of white men (and black men for that matter) r jealous of Obama. Men like power; and who wouldn't want to have the most powerful job in the world. They envy his prowess, and stature.
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By: pink on 3/27/2011 10:14AM
As for (so-called) Bill and Blake: Listen up peps on Blackvoices....why r u wasting your time commenting on their blogs? The best way 2 handle it is to just ignore them.
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By: cyndi weiss on 4/27/2011 11:34AM
I am so sick of this birther "CRAP" @ now I guess we are go to move on to his college grades, etc. I have always said to friends and family since Pres. Obama took the oath of office; 3 mo. into his pres., it was very obvious that this intelligent decent human being was going to be scrutinized constantly because he upset the white protestant male "applecart" when this bi-racial man won the pres. Let's not forget, we elected a bi-racial pres., a catholic vice-pres., @ speaker of the house who was a women @ who also was catholic. It could'nt have been any clearer that these white protestant male republican bigots were "losing it"!!! i started realizing back in the spring of 2009 that not a whole lot of "attitude" has change since 1865 - sick, sick, sick!!! @ since JFK ran for pres. @ all the nonsense we listened to because he was catholic - remember, the Pope was going to take over the U.S. gov? I am white, catholic, a women (61 yrs. old), a democrat who voted for Pres. Obama and will do so again in 2012!!! this pres. has walked into the "biggest mess" in the history of our country, no other pres. in u.s. history has had to deal with such a screwed up mess given to us by "courtesy" of the republican party!!! It's becoming clear that the majority of the republicans, some democrats, @ some independents, simply said, are "racist @ bigots"!!!
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