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BumRushDaShow

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10. I think they are trying not to knee-jerk a response
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jul 8

so they can strategize for the medium term without burning bridges.

They have watched our "check and balance" system for many decades and have seen us go through these types of cycles with administration changes, only to see reversals.

Remember at one time in history we had this -

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II

George Takei has spoken many times about that 2nd one because he was caught up in it!



W.E.B. Du Bois, on behalf of the NACCP, had sent a letter to the newly-formed U.N. demanding recognition of human rights for minorities around the world, but most particularly AAs right here in the U.S. who were drowning in SCOTUS-enforced Jim Crow -

(1947) W.E.B. DuBois, “An Appeal to the World : A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities…”

Those whose communities were directly impacted KNOW this.

But remember that many consider this "identity politics".

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