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Nope, can't say that I am surprised at all. Sadly.  Eric Garner's mother lost a son Eric at the hands of police and his daughter Erica who spent so much of her life trying to champion the cause of justice for her father and had a rapid decline of health as a result.  Very tragic. 

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There's an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" where (I think) Malcolm McDowell plays a Rupert Murdoch-esque figure with an Asian wife.  (Murdoch, if you recall, was once married to Chinese-born Wendi Dang).  As viewers, we're supposed to believe theirs to be a happy, loving relationship.  However, at the episode's climax, when Vincent D'Onofrio (or whoever was his surrogate for that season) exposes McDowell's culpability in the Murder of the Week, his true feelings toward his wife and Asians in general is revealed...and no, it's not pretty.

 

Similarly, like I always said about my now-ex-sister-in-law: just because you lay with us and you make our babies, that doesn't mean you're not racist.  In fact, she proved time and time again just how racist she really was, and continues to be.  (And then there's my second cousin, who said -- and I quote -- "When I marry, I'm marrying a white man, because black men are ugly"; and who, when busted by her mother, busted my ex-cousin-in-law, saying, "Well, didn't you say that the next time you got married, it would be to a white man, too!?")

 

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell share similar attitudes toward their respective spouses.  Just because they married women who are not American-born (and in Chao's case, are non-Caucasian), that doesn't mean they are racially tolerant.  If anything, it shows how desperate both men were to find wives who were NOT American-born and therefore, were more submissive toward them than their previous wives had been -- which is misogynistic AND racist.

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The events that have unfolded today on the House floor have me shaken.  I'm just so worried that the hateful, racist rhetoric that has engulfed this country since that man took office will culminate one day in literal bloodshed.

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I think the "United" States is done. I think blue states should secede from red and let's just coexist with different Americas and different laws. The trouble there is, blue states subsidize red, so... *shrug* I wish I had the answer.

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