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Omar responds to 'send her back' chant with Maya Angelou quote
the hill ^ | 07/17/19 | ZACK BUDRYK

Posted on 07/17/2019 9:13:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

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To: Maudeen

Minnesota, thanks for nothing.//

She might bring Minnesota into the Donald camp.


61 posted on 07/18/2019 4:37:36 AM PDT by gbaker
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To: MarvinStinson

DM is running an article defending her marriages today.

This is not hard: Do you agree the United States has specific laws governing marriage and divorce that must be followed to claim the legal status of married or divorced? Are those laws sharia laws or something else? Was Omar aware that those laws are NOT sharia laws? Despite being aware that the United States has certain laws that must be followed to claim married or divorced status, did Omar make fraudulent legal representations on documents such as tax returns regarding her status? And, as an aside, why would Omar assume sharia law superceded U.S. law? All reasonable questions.


62 posted on 07/18/2019 4:42:13 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: MarvinStinson

Hahaha! Gibberish and a furrowed brow are the tools of famed poet laureate Angelou. It makes perfect sense the angry immigration-fraudster would quote her.


63 posted on 07/18/2019 4:45:34 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“You may shoot me with your words,/You may cut me with your eyes,/You may kill me with your hatefulness,/But still, like air, I’ll rise,” Omar tweeted Wednesday.

Anybody think Omar was the one who actually tweeted this out instead of her staff, raise your hand.


64 posted on 07/18/2019 4:48:36 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: escapefromboston

Hey I say THROW HER OUT!


65 posted on 07/18/2019 4:53:14 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: MarvinStinson

Like stench from the toilet, she rises.


66 posted on 07/18/2019 4:53:50 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“Maya Angelou ain’t no Shakespeare.”

No matter. The only thing that mattered was her plumbing and her tint.


67 posted on 07/18/2019 5:11:01 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: escapefromboston
Too bad somalis flooded her district so she will be re-elected till the end of time.

Send them all back as well.

They violate the fabric of our culture.

68 posted on 07/18/2019 5:15:55 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( "The Owl" eats RATs for breakfast!)
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To: MarvinStinson

a Maya Angelou quote is by definition racist


69 posted on 07/18/2019 5:17:42 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: MarvinStinson

Was Angelou talking about a hot fart? Sure sounds like it.


70 posted on 07/18/2019 5:18:54 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Tag, you're it.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I guess it’s better than getting stoned by the mullahs for breaking sharia.


71 posted on 07/18/2019 5:22:09 AM PDT by Theophilus (Make America Grateful Again)
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To: MarvinStinson
Maya Angelou ain't no Shakespeare.

This seems like a good place to reprise a letter I wrote a long time ago when my daughter was assigned to read Angelou over her summer vacation.

Mr. August xxxxxxxx, Principal
xxxxxxxxxx Junior High School
xxxxxxxx, NJ

Dear Gus,

First, thank you for the invitation to the "brown bag" luncheon on Thursday, October 21. I look forward to attending.

I would like to restate my objection here to the assignment of Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings as mandatory reading for my daughter (and others in 9-H) this past summer. I choose to do this in writing because it affords me an opportunity to organize my thoughts and it will allow you to consider what I say before we meet. I would hope that this can be a topic for discussion next week.

xxxxxxx had to read Angelou's book along with Cather's My Antonia; and she selected Twain's Prince and the Pauper from a list of titles as her third summer reading book. No objective educated person would include Angelou with Twain and Cather on a list of books which ninth graders should be assigned, except perhaps if it were in connection with a political science course. But this was not for political science. It was for English.

After we spoke at Open House, I had an opportunity to discuss this with Mrs. xxxxxxx whom you indicated was responsible for the summer reading selections. She told me how widely respected Angelou was and did not seem interested in my objections.

My objections did not grow out of dislike for the poem Angelou read at the Presidential inauguration, though I admit to being turned off by her praise of every ethnic group save those which were primarily responsible for building this country and its institutions. Rather the objections arise from reading selections from her book on three pairs of facing pages I opened to at random.

This is a book of black hate. Read the passages with me and see if you do not agree. (Page references are to the Bantam Books paperback edition of 1971.)
I laughed, too, but not at the hateful jokes made on my people. I laughed because, except that she was white, the big movie star [Kay Francis] looked just like my mother. Except that she lived in a big mansion with a thousand servants, she lived just like my mother. And it was funny to think of the whitefolks' not knowing that the woman they were adoring could be my mother's twin, except that she was white and my mother was prettier. Much prettier. [p. 99]
" ... jokes made on ... " This is English? But the substance is more important. Only a bitter, ignorant person would assume that a person's appearance was the key to being a movie star. Talent probably has something to do with it, as well as persistence, and the other things that bring success in any field. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." This is from material I read and remember from my high school days, but the Angelous of the world have a different message which is not the one we should be teaching our children. We also read about the seven deadly sins. As I remember it, envy was one of them. Angelou's logic is not very good either. If one person looks like another to the point of being a virtual twin then it does not make sense to describe one of the two as "prettier; much prettier." Does it? Also, I looked up "whitefolk" in my Webster's Ninth and did not find it. I think I know what it means though but I am not sure about the s' that follows. Will my daughter learn to write like this in her English class?
Then I wished that Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds and that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and that Harriet Tubman had been killed by that blow on her head and Christopher Columbus had drowned in the Santa Maria. [p. 152]
Nice! These were Angelou's thoughts while listening to a Commencement address at her high school graduation ceremony.
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. [p. 231]
I have never heard any white male refer to a black female as a "Ho." But, of course it would be indelicate of Angelou to look to her own people for the causes of, and the solutions to, their problems. Maybe some of the problems that black females face are due to being seduced and abandoned by black males. Does this have to do with a lack of power? I think not. Blacks had much less economic and political power 50 years ago but as a group they had a strong family structure. Now after listening to the Angelous their collective family structure is in disarray. (It is cute, too, that the egalitarian Angelou chooses to capitalize black but not white.)

I am sorry I have gone on for so long. But I find these excerpts so absurd that I guess I get carried away. I wonder if a white woman brought a similar manuscript to Random House (the original publisher) whether they have spent more than half an hour with it. I doubt it.

What was the point of assigning this autobiography? Was it to demonstrate the artful use of the English language? Was it to serve as an example to my daughter of how to confront the problems she might face later in her own life? Or was it to bring Political Correctness to xxxxxxxxxx?

Alas, I know the answer. And as citizen, father, and taxpayer, I do not like it. I ask you to review the titles that students at xxxxxxxxxx are required to read with Mrs. xxxxxxx, and ask her to remove those that are there for political rather than literary reasons.

Very truly yours,
ML/NJ
72 posted on 07/18/2019 5:32:54 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: kanawa

Every leftwing rag [NY TIMES, Washington Post, etc] publishes op eds by non lefties from time to time to fool the clueles.


73 posted on 07/18/2019 5:55:43 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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But still, like air, I’ll rise,” Omar tweeted Wednesday

Omar is an ice cold anti-American, cold air falls.

74 posted on 07/18/2019 5:57:17 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ml/nj

“The Angelous of the world have a different message which is not the one we should be teaching our children.”


75 posted on 07/18/2019 6:00:35 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: escapefromboston
Too bad somalis flooded her district so she will be re-elected till the end of time.

That may be a good thing. The whole rest of the country will have a constant reminder of that terrible mistake.

76 posted on 07/18/2019 6:14:26 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“But still, like a fart from Howard Stern’s a$$, I’ll rise,”


77 posted on 07/18/2019 6:16:05 AM PDT by euram
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To: escapefromboston

The majority of Omar’s votes come from white Minnesotans, many in the suburbs. A few very white and Jewish precincts that I looked at gave her around 60% of their votes.

She got around 268,000 votes. 78%.


78 posted on 07/18/2019 6:25:21 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: MarvinStinson

In other words, “Blah, blah, blah...”


79 posted on 07/18/2019 6:29:25 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: MarvinStinson
“You may shoot me with your words,/You may cut me with your eyes,/You may kill me with your hatefulness,/But still, like air a fart, I’ll rise,”
80 posted on 07/18/2019 6:32:02 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and evet n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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