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To: pocotrader who wrote (1219715)	4/12/2020 4:14:57 PM
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man lefties are fujjed up Mississippi State U. football coach to undergo sensitivity training following ‘offensive’ tweet DAVE HUBER - ASSISTANT EDITOR •APRIL 12, 2020 SHARE THIS ARTICLE: The College Fix on Facebook The College Fix on Twitter The College Fix on Youtube Share on Email The head football coach at Mississippi State University will have to complete sensitivity training because he tweeted out what many consider to be a racially offensive meme. Earlier this month, Mike Leach posted to Twitter a vintage-looking photo of an old woman knitting. The accompanying text said “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf.” Except that … the “scarf” is actually a noose. Some of Leach’s players expressed on social media their dissatisfaction and disappointment with the tweet, and generated many sympathetic responses. In addition, MSU sociology professor Margaret Haberman wasted little time jumping into the matter, suggesting Leach visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice “to learn about lynching’s ‘brutal history.’” According to The New York Times, Haberman got her wish: Leach’s sensitivity training includes “museum visits.” The coach will also have to attend “listening sessions” with “students, alumni and community groups.” One of Leach’s players, Fabien Lovett, announced last week he plans on transferring to another school due to Leach’s tweet … and subsequent “insincere” apology. From the story: “That’s the prime example of why I need to leave Mississippi,” […] Lovett, said. … “We’re in the South,” Lovett said. “We’re in Mississippi. Stuff like that plays a huge role in our family, especially black men. Our ancestors were lynched.” Mississippi State declined to make its president, Mark Keenum, available Thursday and did not respond to requests to interview Leach and Athletic Director John Cohen. Cohen said in a statement this week that the university was disappointed in Leach. “No matter the context, for many Americans the image of a noose is never appropriate, and that’s particularly true in the South and in Mississippi,” Cohen said. Times writer Jeré Longman claims the coach’s tweet “conflicted with a history of broad-mindedness at Mississippi State on matters of race and sports.” He points to 1963’s “Game of Change” in which MSU’s all-white basketball team defied the governor and “sneak[ed] out of the state” to play a team which had four black starters. “Broad-mindedness” is an interesting choice of words given that broad-minded people wouldn’t necessarily read racist intent into Leach’s tweet in the first place. Broad-minded people would take the tweet in the manner in which it was intended: that coronavirus-induced stay-at-home orders are (humorously) putting husbands and wives at each others’ throats. As The Federalist’s David Marcus wrote, this incident is an example of “two very different and often contradictory definitions of racism.” The “modern leftist definition,” he says, “occurs when, even unintentionally, a person fails to take into account how others might interpret his statements or actions.”

To: pocotrader who wrote (1219715)	4/12/2020 4:50:25 PM
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Yep, Donald Trump really is going to prison TR Kenneth \| 2:00 pm EDT April 12, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis Evil really doesn’t die. Trump’s COVID 19-sniffling, dementia-tweeting, diaper-leaking displays just show him moving forward like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. He’s led the country into mass graves, yet now is holding his daily coronavirus briefings as a substitute for his campaign rallies. Don’t expect that to end until he’s removed in handcuffs. But he will be removed that way unless by some strange fortune, he drops dead before January 20, 2021. Don’t count on him dying. As enfeebled as he’s become, he’s being propped up by Adderall and a clown car of sycophants. While in office, a*-lickers like Bill Barr will follow him anywhere. Even to ADX Florence. In these days of too much time on our hands, let’s take a peek at ADX Florence. It’s the highest maximum-security federal prison in the country located within sight of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, though they can barely be seen through the 4-inch-wide window in the cell. When Trump is finally taken down by SDNY, this is where he must be put just for his own security. He wouldn’t be safe in general population. Besides, when his usefulness to Putin is over, Putin will want to be completely rid of this buffoon. They’ll have to throw Trump in Supermax just to keep Putin from poisoning him. Trump’s narcissism makes him stupid and we wouldn’t be surprised if he’s got a back-up plan to flee to Russia or North Korea should he lose the election. But he’s too stupid to see that this isn’t going to happen for him. Nobody will touch this guy once his Presidential usefulness is gone. No country will want to piss off the US that much. Not even Kim Jong Un. [ I'm not so sure. I think an ex-US President would be of great propaganda value to Putin. He could drag him out and mock him like an pet ape. ]*