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On Independence Day, minorities question promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
AP ^ | July 4, 2017 | RUSSELL CONTRERAS

Posted on 07/04/2017 11:17:32 AM PDT by PROCON

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As many in the United States celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, some minorities have mixed feelings about the revelry of fireworks and parades in an atmosphere of tension on several fronts.

How do you celebrate during what some people of color consider troubling times?

Blacks, Latinos and immigrant rights advocates say the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, recent non-convictions of police officers charged in the shootings of black men, and the stepped-up detentions of immigrants and refugees for deportation have them questioning equality and the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at gazettetimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; aplies; apracism; democrats; dissociatedpress; fakenews; july4th; minorities; trump; whining
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To: PROCON

They have more special protections and privileges tuan anyone else.

Its time to end all that. They just turn out racist, entitled, ungrateful, and demanding more. And they will never stop demanding more.

They beat the crap out of whites while screaming they are the oppressed ones.


21 posted on 07/04/2017 11:28:20 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

Did I miss the part of the Constitution that states you have the right to be happy 24/7 and everyone must kiss your butt because you are a “minority”?

Should’ve paid closer attention in class that day, I guess...

What a bunch of whiners.


22 posted on 07/04/2017 11:28:35 AM PDT by Maskot (Obama lied, Susan Rice lied, They ALL lied)
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To: PROCON
If you are an illegal alien, and you came into our Country without going through the proper channels, then to bad...

You will NOT be accepted anymore, and those States that think they can run America, they can't and they won't...sure they can raise their taxes, they can do a lot of things, but it is illegal to come into our Country without a visa, and stay until your visa is over, and then leave, you can become a ‘Citizen’ and then have the rights that our Forefathers and Veterans fought and died for...

Illegal aliens are not part of America, they are not entitled to what we have, and our tax dollars pay for welfare, housing, food, medical assistance for our poor, not for illegal alien to sit on his/her butt and free load off of what we have worked for...

So illegal aliens if you don't like it, you know the way you came in, use it to get the hell out of Our Country because WE DON'T WANT YOU unless you follow OUR LAWS to become a ‘citizen’...

23 posted on 07/04/2017 11:29:04 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: PROCON
"Blacks, Latinos and immigrant rights advocates say..."

In other words, a bunch of self-appointed, hate-filled, marxists who speak only for themselves and never miss a chance, every time the Fake News sticks a microphone in their face.

24 posted on 07/04/2017 11:29:22 AM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Bob

Somebody going to start a Go Fund Me for one-way tickets to Africa? One-way tickets back to the countries of their ancestors. As long as they can’t come back!


25 posted on 07/04/2017 11:29:43 AM PDT by abclily
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To: PROCON

WAAAAAAA!!!!

You have a RIGHT to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...... you don’t have the RIGHT to have it handed to you or to have someone else pay for it.


26 posted on 07/04/2017 11:30:28 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Maskot

Dearest minorities: Shut up and get to work. Stop your incessant whining and griping. No one cares about your imaginary “oppression”. Shut up!


27 posted on 07/04/2017 11:30:53 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: PROCON
***WARNING***

AP = All Propaganda

Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.

What good does it do to post this crap from a crappy Lying Leftist sources on a day we should be rejoicing in the liberty and independence from government that America is all about.

From the Lying Left, you're going to get anything today except love for America and its freedoms.

Can we at FR have a day, July 4th, where we don't post anything from the Lying Left? Just one day, so we can rejoice in our liberties and focus on our MAIN GOAL: the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic.

Better is posting from a reliable pro-American source (or your own) that unpacks the lies and distortions of leftist sources, disemboweling them with the clever/witty expositions. Clear and to the point. That way visitors or occasional onlookers aren't confused by the lies FR posts.

28 posted on 07/04/2017 11:30:58 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: PROCON


29 posted on 07/04/2017 11:32:31 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to victory - Turkey President, Recep Erdogan)
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To: Bob

“Pick another country, any other country — Just say the word and quite a few of us will gladly chip in for your one-way ticket there.”

Yeah, a free one-way ticket to the African $hit hole of your choice, in exchange for your renouncing your citizenship in the USA, and I will even through in a complimentary loin cloth so you can “arrive in the style you seem to want to become accustomed to!”
And to those decent, hard-working Black people who do revere this country, drop the “hyphenated American crap” and join the rest of us in our quest to make this the country the place it was destined at it’s founding to be.


30 posted on 07/04/2017 11:35:06 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: fidelis

In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.

Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations were forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grew among them and the more violently they broke apart, but break apart they did, or genocide has settled the issue once and for all.


31 posted on 07/04/2017 11:35:44 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: loveliberty2
Excellent discourse!

Where is the leader who will declare these things today?

Nowhere, God is dead to these people, instigating and inflaming racial and societal division pays them much better.

32 posted on 07/04/2017 11:37:18 AM PDT by PROCON (President Reagan, your worthy successor has arrived to save our beloved America)
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To: Boomer

“People who come to America with no intention of becoming 100% American should leave now.”

And let us not “leave out” the native-born trash who have the same idea. We working folks are through paying for you to have a completely subsidized existence for the entirety of you lives. The door to a “better place for you” is open and you need to take advantage of it and GTFO!


33 posted on 07/04/2017 11:38:34 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: PROCON

Shocking, all the white folks feel the same way. What? Oh, you mean they’re questioning life, liberty and happiness because of NOT ENOUGH gooberment??? F off, bitches, compared to normal people (small government types who want to be left alone) you’re living the dream.


34 posted on 07/04/2017 11:41:51 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: PROCON

So, we are unfair.

Then get your liberal uneducated *sshole outta here and back to your cesspool country.


35 posted on 07/04/2017 11:42:16 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Jim 0216
You are absolutely wrong here.

This is NOT Fake News.

This is EXACTLY what these Marxists think and believe!

We must always remain vigilant and know what the enemies of America think and do.

36 posted on 07/04/2017 11:44:08 AM PDT by PROCON (President Reagan, your worthy successor has arrived to save our beloved America)
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To: PROCON

Screw you, Ape Pee.


37 posted on 07/04/2017 11:44:31 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: abclily

Over the past 50 years, they HAVE convinced them - to the point they demand degrees, jobs, and promotions they themselves concede they don’t deserve. Too many are completely beaten down, and assume that without government intervention they’d be returned to slavery.


38 posted on 07/04/2017 11:45:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: PROCON

If some immigrants feel “threatened” by our 4th of July celebrations, they need to think about why they came to America. If some came for the “free stuff”, they were mistaken. If some came for the “perfect world”, they were misinformed. If many of those who were born here feel that things are “unfair” or “unjust”, too bad. They need to get a job and become part of the solution.......or move to another more desirable country.


39 posted on 07/04/2017 11:51:48 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: DJ Taylor

Stop being pessimistic; we can share the wonderful future envisioned by Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia...


40 posted on 07/04/2017 11:51:51 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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