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Some twitter reaction:
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"But especially to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the country they love, and to those in line of a very different, but equally dangerous fire, stopping the threats of the terrorists, misfits and lunatic thugs who are working feverishly from within to overturn and destroy our once great country, which has never been in greater peril than it is right now. We must stop the communists, Marxists and fascist ‘pigs’ at every turn and, Make America Great Again!”
Memorial day message from Trump. I wonder if the fascist pigs reference is directed at De Santis, I would doubt he is referring to Putin.
Seems more of a general Democratic reference to me. And maybe Mike Pence.
“Ooh, he mentioned us! The lunatic thugs trying to overturn the country!! He’ll pardon us for sure!”
The headline in Yahoo News referred to the 18-star, flag, as did some of the posted tweets, but these tweets were better IMO.
Trump Promises To End Birthright Citizenship for Undocumented Migrants – Rolling Stone (maybe paywalled; some snipping)
Milk toast is a breakfast dish consisting of toasted bread in warm milk , typically with sugar and butter. Salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, cocoa, raisins or other ingredients may be added.
Milk toast sounds quite tasty.
Add eggs, and mais oui!!
Sounds fine, except for the putrid, dirty, germy, puppy-kicking, radioactive, corrosive, mutagenic rai-SINS!!! 
But raisins sing so well!
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How did you hear that?
Taking his turn for questions, Mullin held a book called Our Skin and said: “I’m going to read exactly what this book says. You guys might find it interesting.
“‘A long time ago, way before you were born, a group of white people made up an idea called race. They sorted people by skin colour and said that white people were better, smarter, prettier, and they deserved more than everybody else.’
“This would be taught if we socialise our pre-K system, this would be.”
Asked by Sanders if he disagreed with the book, Mullin said: “One thousand percent. How about we teach Jesus Loves Me? … and teaching Jesus loves and loves the little children. The lyrics go, ‘Red and yellow, black and white. They’re all precious in our sight.’”
The hymn Mullin was referring to, Jesus Loves the Little Children, was written by C Herbert Woolston.
Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race, by Jessica Ralli and Megan Madison, has been seized upon by rightwingers in the ongoing battle over the teaching of race.
Saying he was “Cherokee Native American” and adding: “I think we have experienced a little bit of racism before in my life”, Mullin continued: “I’ll ask everybody on the panel. Which is better to teach?”
Two witnesses attempted to answer. The senator talked over them.
Turning to Cheryl Morman, president of the Virginia Alliance for Family Child Care Associations, Mullin asked: “So which one is better?”
Morman said: “I disagree. First, it is important that we teach Jesus and Jesus is what we teach.”
Mullin interjected: “So which one is better?”
Morman said: “But the reality is –”
Mullin cut her off: “I don’t want reality, I’m asking the question, which one is better?”
Amid laughter – and with Mullin the recipient of a sideways look from the Republican next to him, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama – an unidentified senator said: “Got it on tape.”
“Misspoke,” said Mullin, before returning to the attack.
If that’s really what’s in that book, then it is a pretty horrid book.
That said, woof on the rest of his rant. What’s with state legislators in OK lately?
Untrue?
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:squintyeyes: Y…es?
If nothing else, race is a physical trait that’s basically embedded in one’s DNA. As such, no one “made it up.” It just is.
Eh, skin color is embedded in your DNA. Race as a concept is definitely man-made.
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My biggest criticism for the way that “race” is presented is that it will leave the distinct impression with most kids that “white = bad/evil” once you get to the punchline of “racism is wrong/bad/evil”. Especially at the elementary school ages and earlier.
I think you’ll get far more mileage by going at the real root: some people believed that people who looked like themselves based on skin color was “better” because they had what they considered was the most “progressive/advanced/latest” technological gadgets known. Does it matter what the color of their skin was?
This is easily adapted to other forms of discrimination that doesn’t rely on skin color, but has the same underlying principles.
This is incredibly wrong and incredibly fragile of you.
Kids have the ability to comprehend when things occurred in the past (when speaking of slavery) and the concept that not all of ghe white peope where wrong/evil/bad (your words) in the past, just that the majority of them were.
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The racism in this country historically (and currently) is based on skin tone.
Teaching kids that is wrong and that it was always wrong is something that should be done, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes parents.
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