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Keepthesoulalive

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10. Obama broke their brains

Reply to bigtree (Reply #9)

Fri Feb 6, 2026, 04:09 PM

Feb 6

They could not bear to see a popular educated black man representing their country. People who i believed were friends turned into gun humping racist nuts. Some even joined the unite the right rally in Charlottesville. A monster came up from the racist swamp with conspiracy theories and Fox amplified them. This has been under the surface just waiting for sunlight and here we are.

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I'm going to talk about Trump's racism, but I'm not distracted from anything. [View all] bigtree Feb 6 OP

The amount of attention given to his rage bait is incredible Keepthesoulalive Feb 6 #1

I get the distraction thing bigtree Feb 6 #3

This is just another cut Keepthesoulalive Feb 6 #4

when I started writing in the '80 it was about race, exclusively bigtree Feb 6 #5

I lost faith in most people Keepthesoulalive Feb 6 #7

they were primed bigtree Feb 6 #9

Obama broke their brains Keepthesoulalive Feb 6 #10

Great OP- must read malaise Feb 6 #2

I stand corrected Keepthesoulalive Feb 6 #6

DURec leftstreet Feb 6 #8

Great reflection. Clear delineation. cachukis Feb 6 #11