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Do Obama fans always play the race card unnecessarily?

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I saw a video on a friend's FB page. The video trashed people who, like me, sometimes complain that the GOP is too often racist. Especially its Tea-bag wing. My friend didn't make the clip, he just supported it. So I said to myself, "If he might think this way, then the wingnuts are truly over the edge." I realise that people (including myself) sometimes do throw the baby out with the bath water. The GOP used to be a normal party, sometimes a noble one, but it hasn't been so in quite a while. It is the party of Abraham Lincoln, after all. Of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and a few other good presidents. But today it is the party of Ronald Reagan ("Trees cause more pollution than automobiles."), George Bush the father ("I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.") Dan Quayle ("It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It'

Read, read, read!

Some happy #inspiration on the library whiteboard in #Lesotho - "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Never give up!" pic.twitter.com/zMFJnQsFYw — Help Lesotho (@helplesotho) November 3, 2017