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Trump is who they voted for.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by edwardc, Dec 4, 2024.

  1. Nook

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  2. mtbrays

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    Yeah you've gotta go back to a party directly nominating a candidate in the 1800s who didn't even know they were running to find someone who "wasn't out for themselves"

    It's a strange complaint about a modern politician.
     
  3. HP3

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    Can you tell me where this was said?

    This second part...I guess I can understand.
     
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    I'll definitely do that on Monday and give you links when I can track it down. It was talked about on a bunch of links from Smartnews which is a variety of different news outlets.

    She's a very selfish politician. Always has been. I guess that doesn't really differentiate from the vast majority of them but I just think she's the exact same. Cut from the same cloth
     
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  5. SamFisher

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    It's exactly what you voted for - STFU

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    I chuckle every time I see stuff like this

    Y’all were warned. Y’all wanted to be white so bad forgetting that you’ll always be viewed as an “other” by the very same people y’all were shucking and jiving for. Go ask white MAGA to “rebel” with y’all. If that doesn’t work, u can go and try with the white liberals. Black people will be sitting this one out.

    and the same goes for the pro-Palestine idiots…they can fck off too
     
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    Nearly every day, the onetime Ontario warehouse employee said, he was stunned to hear racist slurs from Latino co-workers.

    “They said it in English — they said it in Spanish all the time,” recalled Leon Simmons, a Black father of four with a deep voice and gentle manner. “When they look you right in the eye and call you the N-word to your face, that’s dehumanizing.”

    Thirty-two miles away at a Moreno Valley warehouse, it was the same story. Another Black laborer, Benjamin Watkins, described how a Latina co-worker called to him: “‘Hey, monkey! Yeah, you!’ and waved a banana in her hand. A group of women burst out laughing.”

    In America’s long history, harassment and discrimination against Black workers has usually involved white perpetrators — and that remains the case today. But with the rapid growth of the Latino population, now at 19% in the U.S. and 39% in California, Latinos form the majority in many low-wage workplaces. And instances of anti-Black bias and colorism among them is drawing new scrutiny, even as activists in the two communities forge alliances over criminal justice and economic development.

    Latinos certainly are targets of job discrimination as well and continue to struggle for equity in the workplace. But the two largest racial bias cases brought by the federal government in California in the last decade alleged widespread abuse of hundreds of Black employees at warehouses in the Inland Empire, the state’s booming distribution hub for trade between the U.S. and Asia.

    In interviews, Black employees said a torrent of racist insults and discriminatory treatment was mainly inflicted by Latino co-workers and supervisors who composed roughly three-quarters of the workforces at the sprawling facilities in Ontario and Moreno Valley.

    “Mayate,” a type of beetle and Spanish slang for the N-word, was a common taunt, according to interviews and court filings.

    Since at least 2016, the EEOC alleged, Black workers were subjected to the N-word by co-workers and managers “many times per day…including ‘n— b****’, ‘lazy ass n— ain’t did no work all day,’ and ‘Look at those n—looking like monkeys, working like slaves like they should be.’”

    The first worker to file a complaint described being called anti-Black slurs in English and Spanish, facing prejudice from a Latina supervisor and being deliberately run over with a cart by a Latino co-worker.

    Photos taken by Black workers showed a women’s restroom defaced with graffiti: “N— stink up the aisles” and “Black pipo stink.” A men’s restroom was defaced with “n—killer.”

    In a court filing, Cardinal acknowledged “derogatory graffiti,” but said it was promptly removed. A spokesman declined to address other worker allegations, citing the EEOC’s post-settlement statement: “Cardinal Health and AppleOne have put in place measures aimed at preventing discrimination and harassment.”

    A Latino supervisor “would make me clean up the trash while everybody else was sent home.”

    After three months of complaining, Simmons was allowed to drive a cherry picker, but his pay remained at $12 an hour, he said, lower than that of non-Black drivers.

    He grew angry and despondent: “They’d write stuff on the bathroom walls — ‘gorillas, go back to Africa.’ The Black workers would cross it out. Two days later, it would be right back.”

    Simmons complained to AppleOne and Cardinal managers, he said. “But nobody investigated. Nobody cared.” His Latina supervisor said, “If you’re up here complaining, the orders are not getting picked.”

    Black workers who complained “started disappearing one by one,” Simmons said. “We’d find out they were fired.” After 11 months, he too was told “your assignment is over.” No reason was given, he said.

    By then, Simmons had started going to a psychologist. During visits, “I’d start shaking and crying,” he said. He was put on antidepressants.

    Simmons got another job as a security guard but had to quit. The racism at Cardinal, he said, “messed me up. Something popped in my head. I was still having night terrors — waking up screaming.”

    Today, diagnosed with PTSD, Simmons is on disability.

    yeah, we’re good over here

    and y’all should read about the black Chick-Fil-A worker in Idaho who just filed a federal lawsuit
     
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    Yep. It's crap. It isn't black workers that are causing problems for the Latino workers. Those in power who are the ones responsible for the issues are the only ones that win when disadvantaged groups battle against each other. That's not where anyone's anger should be directed.
     
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    Voting for Trump for better family values???
     
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    Yeah doesn't make sense does it.
     
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    last name is Hernandez

    these pick-me’s are so fcking desperate to be accepted by those who hate them it’s honestly hilarious
     
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    Trump's Greatest Hits, By The Numbers
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    Over the past few years, I have had 2 co-workers who had this same mentality, her parents were from Mexico, but she was born here.........she could not stand black people and folks here illegally...........I was floored by that. Then last election I had a Hispanic in the warehouse tell me her husband wanted all the illegals sent back. I was shocked each time..............we all want to fix this problem, but I am of the mind set of get rid of the criminals but the folks who are here working and be productive, get them a fast track to being a citizen. I think maga thinks all the white people just appeared here bythe grace of GOD, but the entire country is descendants of immigrants....................FIX the system. trump just wants chaos and then lie about the optics of whats happening in LA, he does it all for show and red meat to his racist followers
     
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    Find out.
     

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