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The Father
·You do realize that the vast majority of guns confiscated in crimes in said 'highest rate of gun crimes', come from states with the weakest gun laws.
Photo ID
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RevZMan123
·Wait this isn’t closed yet?
Yippeeee!!!!!!
Here is a story.
Because I had spare time I went to public library and I am asshole.
I picked out a new book. James Patterson or some rot like that. I walked out the door. Of course the buzzer went on.
“Sir, you need to check out the item”
I’m good I’ll bring it back when I am done
All hell broke loose, police summoned. Only 3 cops station just a block away.
Threats of arrest if I didn’t check the book out and produce valid identification.
Ohhhh ya, the logic says library books not in Constitution.
Guess I’ll get it out there, those that claim voter disenfranchisement by requiring ID to vote
you are blithering idiots
F off and all that
obviously public libraries in the US are nazi institutions requiring ID for books. Show us your papers for that Kat in the Hat book
Everything I don't like is nazi. ok dude, go back to sleep.
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gbesq
·If ever we needed cat photos, this is the thread. Perhaps a video will do.
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blufinz52
··Hears dead people, not watch rotors.Can you please sight this source of knowledge, please and thank you sugar on top
One study from New York.
By collecting and analyzing New York aggregate gun trace data for 2010-2015, NYAG identified regional differences in trafficking patterns while discovering a commonality among crime guns recovered across New York State: New York’s gun laws have curbed access to the guns most associated with violent crimes, handguns. But the ready availability of these guns in states without these protections thwarts New York’s effort to keep its citizens safe. Our analysis has led us to several recommendations, including calling on the federal government to close the so-called “gun show loophole” which allows private sales of firearms without a background check, and urging states to require permits for handguns, which has worked effectively in New York to keep these dangerous guns out of the hands of criminals.
New York State law enforcement agencies recovered 52,915 firearms between 2010-2015. In 2015 alone, New York recovered 7,827 guns. 39,491 recoveries were handguns, of which 86% originated out-of-state. Handguns are known to be the weapon of choice among violent criminals. For all the guns recovered in New York State, over half belong to a single category: out-of-state handguns. If we count only those guns for which we have complete data, 65% percent of all recoveries are out-of-state handguns.
https://targettrafficking.ag.ny.gov/
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pdxleaf
··"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"We vote by mail 100% in Oregon. I haven't been to a polling station in 25 years since I moved here. I only missed one vote, sadly, in that time.
We obviously have voter identification but we don't have a voter id card. The idea of voter id cards is a misleading argument. People opposed to voter id cards are not opposed to voter identification.
The need for voter id cards could be reduced if vote by mail was more broadly adopted.
Democracies should be doing everything possible to increase the percentage of voting. Standing in line for hours on one day of the year is nuts. It seems anti-democratic to me.
We obviously have voter identification but we don't have a voter id card. The idea of voter id cards is a misleading argument. People opposed to voter id cards are not opposed to voter identification.
The need for voter id cards could be reduced if vote by mail was more broadly adopted.
Democracies should be doing everything possible to increase the percentage of voting. Standing in line for hours on one day of the year is nuts. It seems anti-democratic to me.
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pdxleaf
··"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"IMHO they are Americans and I don't like segregations but they prefer to be called African-Americans so I respect that.
Because being called 'African-American' is segregationist?
It's part of their long-standing struggle to maintain segregation.
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p4ul
·@MRC looks like you dodged a bullet with your out of date id!
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...0000-taking-part-in-uk-election-poll-suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...0000-taking-part-in-uk-election-poll-suggests
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gbesq
·The real question is whether Toonces had a valid photo ID. I'm assuming that he did since he had to take a driver's test. 😁 By the way, the facial expressions on Toonces before he drives off the cliff are priceless.
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Zapatta
·Because being called 'African-American' is segregationist?
It's part of their long-standing struggle to maintain segregation.
Calling yourself anything but American in a nation born of immigration is segregation and actually doing a favor to those pushing for segregation. When you create a black-only college, you've literally done the dirty work yourself for those who don't want their kids in college with black kids. Frankly, that doesn't surprise me at all considering you have a president who has stated; "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-bide...TbeRJVYyC-Y0erK3_eYaddNtYj8zprSpGCxjlL9jkEgo0 DU9GmuJwVXxl7xdVjS5n0sX59i09edPQTfsY0iL1zx1VXXJgmkMMDBBTglms1jvS8aDFLGNsWP9LfHZQNL89yTNyTA5cF713QDyEb0yYL4vJy
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RevZMan123
·Calling yourself anything but American in a nation born of immigration is segregation and actually doing a favor to those pushing for segregation. When you create a black-only college, you've literally done the dirty work yourself for those who don't want their kids in college with black kids. Frankly, that doesn't surprise me at all considering you have a president who has stated; "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-bide...TbeRJVYyC-Y0erK3_eYaddNtYj8zprSpGCxjlL9jkEgo0 DU9GmuJwVXxl7xdVjS5n0sX59i09edPQTfsY0iL1zx1VXXJgmkMMDBBTglms1jvS8aDFLGNsWP9LfHZQNL89yTNyTA5cF713QDyEb0yYL4vJy
Labels are the key to division and they are employed regularly, under the guise of "good feelings".
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hen
·Maybe African American is used in favor of something much more sinister and derogatory.
Maybe a black only college is a way to make up for the years that black people had no chance of higher education.
Maybe a black only college is a way to make up for the years that black people had no chance of higher education.
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gbesq
·Calling yourself anything but American in a nation born of immigration is segregation and actually doing a favor to those pushing for segregation. When you create a black-only college, you've literally done the dirty work yourself for those who don't want their kids in college with black kids. Frankly, that doesn't surprise me at all considering you have a president who has stated; "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-bide...TbeRJVYyC-Y0erK3_eYaddNtYj8zprSpGCxjlL9jkEgo0 DU9GmuJwVXxl7xdVjS5n0sX59i09edPQTfsY0iL1zx1VXXJgmkMMDBBTglms1jvS8aDFLGNsWP9LfHZQNL89yTNyTA5cF713QDyEb0yYL4vJy
Storer College - Wikipedia
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Zapatta
·I 100000% agree that it was once necessary, but we live in 2024.
As a European, this information is unbelievable to me! Who is in power in Baltimore and who is in charge of education and how is this even possible?
Also found this article I can't belive what Im seeing https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...ion-just-form-soft-bigotry-column/6410954002/
As a European, this information is unbelievable to me! Who is in power in Baltimore and who is in charge of education and how is this even possible?
Also found this article I can't belive what Im seeing https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...ion-just-form-soft-bigotry-column/6410954002/
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pdxleaf
··"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"Calling yourself anything but American in a nation born of immigration is segregation and actually doing a favor to those pushing for segregation. When you create a black-only college, you've literally done the dirty work yourself for those who don't want their kids in college with black kids. Frankly, that doesn't surprise me at all considering you have a president who has stated; "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-bide...TbeRJVYyC-Y0erK3_eYaddNtYj8zprSpGCxjlL9jkEgo0 DU9GmuJwVXxl7xdVjS5n0sX59i09edPQTfsY0iL1zx1VXXJgmkMMDBBTglms1jvS8aDFLGNsWP9LfHZQNL89yTNyTA5cF713QDyEb0yYL4vJy
I respectfully disagree.
A short story about my background. My grandfather was a German POW (45 years old at the end of WWII.) He told me there was a kind American Sergeant who helped him until his release in 1946.
I was a promotable Sergeant who in 1991 processed recently captured Iraqi prisoners during the first Gulf war. I distinctly remember standing guard behind an Iraqi while he was questioned at 2 Am about how he was captured and what unit he was with, when I suddenly thought of my grandfather's story. It occurred to me at that moment that I was now the American Sergeant and the man in front of me could be my grandfather. He could come to America and his children could grow up learning about George Washington and become 100% American. That is the true glory of America, the opportunity for freedom.
We aren't a melting pot that erases our heritage. We are a diverse people from across the globe who come together and (attempt) to live as one people. Across the country in every state you will find everywhere little groups of Germans, Russians, Poles, Sri Lankins, Irish, Chezch, Mexican, Chinese, etc... No one accuses them of being anti-American for remembering their roots or celebrating their cultures. On the contrary, most people love attending festivals and eating different food.
I appreciate you sharing your outsider's perspective of what it means to be an American, but for me, it misses the heart of it. Respectfully, I don't think you have the first clue as to what it means to have a historically black college in America. I don't want this to sound rude or hot-headed. But you are way off-base.
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gbesq
·I 100000% agree that it was once necessary, but we live in 2024.
As a European, this information is unbelievable to me! Who is in power in Baltimore and who is in charge of education and how is this even possible?
Also found this article I can't belive what Im seeing https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...ion-just-form-soft-bigotry-column/6410954002/
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Zapatta
·I appreciate you sharing your outsider's perspective of what it means to be an American, but for me, it misses the heart of it. Respectfully, I don't think you have the first clue as to what it means to have a historically black college in America. I don't want this to sound rude or hot-headed. But you are way off-base.
In the late 1930s, my grandfather emigrated from Yugoslavia to America by boat and received American citizenship. My father is an American by birth who returned to Croatia in the late 80s, where I was born. There is a huge community of Croats in Chicago, but they all declare themselves as Americans and not as Croatian-Americans, even though they are very proud of their roots just like Irish, German etc. When I asked my grandfather what does he consider himself, the first thing he said was American. My point was that I rarely see someone identify as something-American, but absolutely all blacks identify as African-American. I am a Croat, although I think that I might be able to apply for citizenship on the basis of my father, but I am not interested in that. I don't mean to be rude, I just want to understand..
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Evitzee
·My point was that I rarely see someone identify as something-American, but absolutely all blacks identify as African-American. I am a Croat, although I think that I might be able to apply for citizenship on the basis of my father, but I am not interested in that. I don't mean to be rude, I just want to understand..
You'll have to ask Jesse Jackson about the term 'African-American', he invented it 1988:
″Just as we were called colored, but were not that, and then Negro, but not that, to be called black is just as baseless,″ Jackson said at a news conference on December 19, 1988, after meeting with the group of Black leaders. ″To be called African-Americans has cultural integrity. It puts us in our proper historical context. Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some land base, some historical cultural base. African- Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity,” he said.
So "cultural integrity". And here we are.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.
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pdxleaf
··"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"In the late 1930s, my grandfather emigrated from Yugoslavia to America by boat and received American citizenship. My father is an American by birth who returned to Croatia in the late 80s, where I was born. There is a huge community of Croats in Chicago, but they all declare themselves as Americans and not as Croatian-Americans, even though they are very proud of their roots just like Irish, German etc. When I asked my grandfather what does he consider himself, the first thing he said was American. My point was that I rarely see someone identify as something-American, but absolutely all blacks identify as African-American. I am a Croat, although I think that I might be able to apply for citizenship on the basis of my father, but I am not interested in that. I don't mean to be rude, I just want to understand..
Interesting background. My wife and I were talking about visiting Croatia when she retires in a few years. Lucky you to live there.
I can't speak for Black Americans and will leave it at that. Pretty sure not all black Americans think the same on any issue though.
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