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naija

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  1. okay, this one is funny.
  2. shit, am I middle-class?
  3. I wonder if Marc Lamont Hill is there...
  4. yeah, this is better than I expected. funny how sometimes setting the bar low backfires....
  5. special guest is on the outro?
  6. keep it together people
  7. Been giving my wife crap about her sorority not showing out.... *I might have missed it in the earlier nights*
  8. nah, keep it. It's not like they've changed their policy positions. good to remember every time the Liz Cheney love gets a bit too intense
  9. maybe Kamala is the surprise guest
  10. He is a better speaker than many of the Dems that have been up
  11. you ain't lying. I don't know how some of you have done this for 4 nights straight.
  12. may we live long enough to see a world where this guy is back in Republican leadership.
  13. NBC won't shut up about Beyonce. Still not getting why this would be a big surprise.....
  14. oh, that's what they mean
  15. at what age? I'd rather we keep it younger.,.
  16. a little crazy tho
  17. how is Beyonce a big surprise...
  18. was Oprah really a big surprise?
  19. naija

    Israel

    It would be malpractice to trust that any vetted speech would be the only thing said up there.
  20. Some medical positions still do pensions
  21. I don't think many/most of the normal, regular people who will vote for Trump think of it that way. And yes, Brisket, I do think those people exist. If we are being honest, you can find "conservative" ideas within the current Republican platform, that if you were a decades old Republican, that isn't a racist, that you could hold your nose, and be fine with voting for Trump. I think you would have to willfully ignore many other issues of moral injury, and perhaps you look around, and to you, Black people are better off today than they were 30 years ago, (which is objectively true in some domains), and you think to yourself, the cries of racism are hysterical and are not credulous. You could also argue, these are people who choosing not to be single-issue voters. The catch, is how we all consider how important that single issue is to us on a personal level. You can see this in how I treat people who won't vote Democrat because of Israel/Gaza. While I concede that it's an important issue, I don't think it should torpedo everything else that comes with voting for Harris. If this comes off as a "both-sides" argument then I'm not doing a good job explaining myself, but part of me thinks that when my friend from Palestine gets into me about voting Democrat, there is a good case to be made that I've simply decided it won't be the defining issue of my vote, and I have to think, that for some of my friends I described above, this thing about racism and rights, probably tracks the same way.
  22. Fair enough. A better example could have been used.
  23. People have been guessing at that. I know the Alabama Democratic party has wished at one point he would run. He is smart enough to never actually have said. In his more recent years, he has not been a fan of policies that would land on the left side of things. If you want to argue about Saban, you can substitute someone else for him. There are no shortage of conservative coaches who have well known views, for whom it doesn't appear to be an albatross when recruiting/coaching Black players.
  24. I sometimes think White folks who consider themselves "liberal" or quite inclusive, have a big blindspot on how these interactions actually work. What the above doesn't consider is how normal and blasé, this is to Black folks. The currency to be indignant and have a zero tolerance policy for interacting with either MAGA or hard-core conservatives, exists only on the social media hyperspace for most Black people. Do you really believe Black families have some mental fog about the political leanings of say Nick Saban, or even more obviously Mike Gundy? And yet, players have committed to them and will continue to do so. The players are quite well aware of Quinn or Arch, or Nick Bosa. But if you are Black, and work in some spaces, you will just to know how to have real, true relationships with these people and at the same time not be under any illusions of where they stand. I hesitate to use the word, "learn", because you don't learn it; it's just the way things are. People are complex. Peyton Manning likely voted Republican (and gives money to HBCUs). Brady has done a good job of dialing it back lately, but we know what his relationship with Trump is. You would be hard pressed to find two other players that would be as comfortably welcomed onto say a Black (the Pivot) Sports Podcast, or cutting it up with Black athletes as those two. You think Dawn Staley doesn't know or understand that part of Brady? But this isn't something special to athletics. If you are a Black lawyer, or doctor, or accountant, or engineer, or any other sort of professional, you could easily point to colleagues from work that are actual friends, that voted for Trump and are gearing up to do so again. Two of my mentors fit that to a tee. Yet, I have no hesitation about calling them for advice on cases/patients, or work issues, or career moves etc. I know they don't consider me inferior or would sabotage me, and yet there is no guessing on their votes for this election. If that seems hard to square, I don't know what to tell you. I'm just telling you, as a Black person, there is nothing out of the ordinary "interacting" with such people.
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