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Statehouse Live: School funding advocate alleges racially-charged photo was used
August 31, 2009, 9:33 a.m. Updated August 31, 2009, 3:54 p.m.
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Topeka — 3:44 p.m. Kathy Cook, who is executive director of Kansas Families for Education, says a state senator who owns a conservative website has published a racially charged photograph.
The photo and article are at www.kansasliberty.com, which is published by state Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook, R-Shawnee.
The photo shows a black man, whose face is partially hidden by money in his hands, as if he were holding playing cards. The caption on the photo reads: School districts threaten to sue. Is it a bluff?
“It’s hard to imagine that her choice of an African-American to illustrate this anti-public-education piece was coincidental,” said Kathy Cook.
Sen. Cook could not be immediately reached for comment. The Lawrence Journal-World left messages at her business and home.
Kathy Cook noted that the photo appeared just days after U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins’ “great white hope” comment.
“What is going on with Kansas Republicans? Are they trying to stoke, and benefit from, racial animosity toward the President?” Cook asked.
Jenkins, R-Topeka, used the phrase when discussing the search for upcoming Republican leaders, but later said she didn’t know it had racial connotations and said she was sorry if she offended anyone. She said it had nothing to do with President Barack Obama, who is the nation's first African-American president.
2:11 p.m. U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins’ “great white hope” saga continues.
At a recent town hall meeting in Hiawatha, Jenkins, R-Topeka, used the phrase when talking about the search for new Republican leaders.
When asked about it later by the Lawrence Journal-World, Jenkins said she didn’t know “great white hope” had a racial connotation, which dates back from when whites were looking for a fighter to defeat black boxer Jack Johnson. Jenkins said she was sorry if anyone was offended by her remark.
Jenkins, whose 2nd congressional district includes Lawrence, said she used the phrase to note there were Republican leaders coming up the ranks, and not as a challenge to President Barack Obama, the first African-American president.
But a story in Friday’s Ottawa Herald reports that last month, Jenkins supported a resolution in Congress to pardon Johnson, who was the victim of a racially motivated conviction in 1913.
The resolution read in part: “Whereas the victory by Jack Johnson over Tommy Burns prompted a search for a White boxer who could beat Jack Johnson, a recruitment effort that was dubbed the search for the ‘great white hope.’” One of the co-sponsors of the resolution was U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Jenkins’ spokeswoman Mary Geiger told the Topeka Capitol-Journal today that Jenkins supported the resolution, which was approved in the House on a voice vote. But Geiger said Jenkins had not read the measure.
10:52 a.m. Kansas will experience the greatest temperature change of any state by the end of the century because of carbon dioxide emissions affecting the climate, a new study says.
The analysis by The Nature Conservancy says that by 2100 Kansas will see an increase of 10.4 degrees in average annual temperature if CO2 emissions continue to increase at the current rate.
Other Midwestern states follow close behind with increases projected in Nebraska, 10.3 degrees; Iowa, 10.2 degrees; and South Dakota, 10 degrees.
“If current trends continue, the weather and landscapes of the future will be nearly unrecognizable compared to what we are used to,” said Jonathan Hoekstra, director of climate change for The Nature Conservancy.
The organization said such temperature changes will cause shifts in agriculture, depletion of water sources and increase outbreaks of insect pests.
The projections were based on data compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The projections can be found at www.climatewizard.org, which was developed by The Nature Conservancy, the University of Washington and University of Southern Mississippi.
9:33 a.m. U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback’s march to Cedar Crest continues.
Brownback, a conservative Republican, has received the endorsement of Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, probably one of the most moderate Republican officeholders in the state.
At this point, Brownback faces no GOP opposition in his bid for governor in 2010, and no major Democratic candidate, although Democratic Party Chairman Larry Gates is expected to make an announcement soon.
Praeger, a longtime Lawrence political figure, said of Brownback, “Sam will work diligently to promote job growth and high quality education, the cornerstones of a vibrant Kansas economy.”
Praeger added, “I've had the honor of working with Sam on both state and national issues. He is a dear friend, and I am proud to endorse his candidacy for Governor.”
Praeger has said she will seek her third four-year term as insurance commissioner in 2010.
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31 August 2009
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Kryptenx (Anonymous) says…
Lulz.
31 August 2009
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just_another_bozo_on_this_bus (Anonymous) says…
Let the sucking up begin.
31 August 2009
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lounger (Anonymous) says…
This is a f*cking nightmare!!! Please all of you come to your senses!! This is like a small version Of G.W. Bush running the country. Oh God help us all……
31 August 2009
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chic (Anonymous) says…
omg. i used to vote for her b/c I used to think she was relatively moderate. BUT, I was wrong - OR she's changed. He's an ULTRA-Radical, right wing whacko!! Read what he thinks about evolution. Scary, scary, scary. And, then, of course there's the source of his political funding. A whole 'nother story.
(Total aside: What happens to the capitalization and punctuation that I use? No matter what I do, this interface reformats it. So, I am NOT responsible for that element of this post.)
31 August 2009
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porch_person (Anonymous) says…
Just_another_bozo_on_this_bus rapidly identifies the phenomenon and wins this round.
Point to bozo. Bozo leads 1-nil.
31 August 2009
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Lynn731 (Anonymous) says…
Right on !! I support Brownback as well. Thank you, Lynn
31 August 2009
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think_about_it (Anonymous) says…
Right on Sam!
After reading the comments about how much the United Way wastes on bureaucracy I'm sending my $500 to Sam instead. Seeing how he makes the Lawrence libs froth at the mouth I think I will also send in more money to him in my wife and kids' names.
31 August 2009
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
'Twill be great to have an (R) gov and (R) KS congress. Maybe a step toward shutting down the small but loud-mouthed far-left contingent around these here parts. Then do the same on the national front.
31 August 2009
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cheeseburger (Anonymous) says…
The analysis - by The Nature Conservancy? Not exactly an unbiased reporting. I would tend to consider the report more believable had it been issued or endorsed by organizations other than well-established liberal, tree-hugging groups.
31 August 2009
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Keith (Anonymous) says…
I imagine the conversation went something like, I hear you want to run for a 3rd term, sure wouldn't want any primary opposition would you Sandy?
31 August 2009
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RalphReed (Ralph Reed) says…
@Tom.
Re: your 1121 rant. You wrote, “…loud-mouthed far-left contingent around these here parts.”
The only loud-mouthed contingent I find around these parts is made up of the the far-right Rush/O'Reilly/Beck/Coulter/Palin parrots. (Some of whom don't even live in Douglas County, let alone Lawrence.)
Your posts make sense when they're not a rant. But this rant cries to be ignored.
31 August 2009
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Ralph, I respect your disrespectful opinions of me, but if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, well……..
31 August 2009
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gphawk89 (Anonymous) says…
What a crock. Well, actually Kansas will get hotter and hotter. It does every spring.
31 August 2009
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autie (Anonymous) says…
Read right wing whacko post; leans to side, vomit.
31 August 2009
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TopJayhawk (Anonymous) says…
You mean it might start getting into the '90's this time a yr. Lord amighty what will we do. I don't even have my shorty pants on today.
Brownback is an empty suit, a rubber stamp. Can't we conservatives find someone else? I don't think he is scary so much as boring.
31 August 2009
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Phillbert (Anonymous) says…
There's another report on the threats of global warming that's making the rounds:
Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/sci…
Of course it is by that notoriously liberal group, the U.S. Department of Defense, so I expect the naysayers to pounce on it too.
31 August 2009
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ksdivakat (Anonymous) says…
I wouldnt fuss about warmer winters and no snow or ice!
31 August 2009
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
“Ralph, I respect your disrespectful opinions of me, but if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, well……..”
….if it aspires to be something I'd scrape off the bottom of my shoe, it must be Tom Shewmon. You, sir, are as poisonous a malcontent as they come.
31 August 2009
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63BC (Anonymous) says…
Praeger and Brownback. Two good eggs.
Like most Kansans, I've voted for both of them before and will again.
31 August 2009
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tbaker (Anonymous) says…
Man-made global warming is probably the single largest hoax ever pulled on the human race, but we'll never know because the those like Al Gore who claim to know this is happening and are trying to sell this idea won't publicly debate the science, or should I say the lack of it. Global Warming is nothing but another excuse to further expand government and take more of our money cleverly disguised as saving the planet.
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jimmyjms (Anonymous) says…
“Like most Kansans…”
You lost me already.
31 August 2009
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uncleandyt (Anonymous) says…
Science is real. Pollution is happening. The Earth is being paved with concrete and asphalt. Money has taken us over. Brownback and Jenkins are not part of the solution. We ( including most of you ) are stupid. Shall we celebrate our ignorance? Should we pass our nonsense around like some great gift? I am very, very, very, very tired of our dim-witted state.
31 August 2009
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
A well-scripted, concise summary of Lynn Jenkins' current political situation:
http://simpsonsmovie.ytmnd.com/
31 August 2009
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RedwoodCoast (Anonymous) says…
“But a story in Friday’s Ottawa Herald reports that last month, Jenkins supported a resolution in Congress to pardon Johnson, who was the victim of a racially motivated conviction in 1913.”
Oddly enough, the boxer who finally defeated Johnson in 1915 was Jess Willard (“The Pottawatomie Giant”), who was from Ottawa, KS.
That said, I do think that language is more powerful than some might imagine. Jenkins' statement, to me, is very telling. It is as if she feels that some great adversary to liberals is waiting out there somewhere to spread the truth and righteousness of conservatism in these unworthy political times.
31 August 2009
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Appears Rothschilds is hitting the campaign trail early for KS Democrats.
31 August 2009
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Um…………………………….
I looked at the image on the referenced website.
Someone please explain to me just how the pic is “racially charged”,.OK?
I don't get it.
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dlkrm (Anonymous) says…
Kathy Cook, please dry up and go away, along with your bogus Kansas Families for Education. Those of us who support freedom from tyranny will win the day, even if you try to smear us with lies. You can't win on the issues, so you disparage your opponents. Shame on you and your ilk.
31 August 2009
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
African-Americans have been used in advertisements since I was a cute little itsy-bitsy boy…..what's the big deal? Why are libs always race-baiting? Stop stirring people up, liberal Democrats.
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Irish (Irish Swearingen) says…
I don't see anything remotely racist with the picture. Looks like a good looking young man to me. I like his hair cut.
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dlkrm (Anonymous) says…
uncleandyt,
Your post proves how successful Gore and Gorbachev have been. Make that, HAD been. We have seen through the lies and propaganda. Please catch up and choose liberty.
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zstoltenberg (Anonymous) says…
I agree with Irish, Looks like a nice photograph of a young professional. No doubt it was a professionally taken photo and the dude is probably a model. Looks to me like a prime example of racial equality, a young black man with a promising career in print advertising. If a democrat had been behind the photo you wouldn't have heard a peep about it.
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Kryptenx (Anonymous) says…
Kathy Cook is an idiot. It's a photo, 99% of news stories use them. If the guy was white, would there be a problem? How ridiculous, and I lean pretty far left. Race baiting by any side is stupid, but it's not limited to or representative of any single party. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the vast majority of dems on LJW will agree - not racist, and Kathy Cook is an idiot for making such accusations.
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TopJayhawk (Anonymous) says…
“You mean it might start getting into the '90's this time a yr. Lord amighty what will we do”
Seeing that we are in the midst of a weak El Nino that is predicted the strengthen through the fall and winter, your climate change analysis obviously doesn't incorporate this fact. It's really funny when climate change doubters base their skepticism on *today's* weather. By the time your sarcasm fades away and you (might) come to understand that the effects are real, it will probably be too late. Care to take a stab at predicting what a change like the one predicted would produce as a result?
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logicsound09 (Anonymous) says…
My first thought on seeing that picture was “what does it have to do with Kansas schools threatening to sue?” I thought the person looked familiar, so I did a reverse image search, and sure enough, it's a picture of young rapper, Bow-Wow.
So while I'm happy to admit that calling the image “racially charged” just because there is a black person in the picture is a stretch, it certainly begs the question, why was *that* particular image chosen?
Seriously—any of you who are automatically defending the use of that picture because it was posted by a Republican, I'd love someone to explain what it has to do with Kansas schools threatening to sue.
The only connection I can see whatsoever is the “deck” of bills, in which case, why use an image with any person at all? Why not use a stack/wad of money? I'm also curious if the usage rights were procured before using the image…
I think it's naive to just assume that the image selection is innocent just because we can't definitively determine the motive behind its use. It's also a bit over the top to assume that the image is racial, because again, we don't know the motive behind its selection.
I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in between…but in discussions of racial matters, we rarely get to the important underlying concepts, instead being content to yell and scream at each other about how an image (or statement) is or isn't “racist”.
[sigh]
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
31 August 2009
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getreal (Anonymous) says…
Perhaps they used that photo because a great deal of school funding received in the lawsuit was targeted towards urban school districts with high minority populations. There have been studies that show exactly why they use these kinds of photographs.
It reminded of an article I read some time ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/…
31 August 2009
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kugrad (Anonymous) says…
I think the objection to the photo comes down to this:
If you were going to pick a face to represent school district administrators, the people actually behind the lawsuit for adequate school funding, why on earth would you pick THAT photo? The guy looks too young, is dressed informally, and so on.
There is plenty to dislike about the accompanying article, not the least of which is that it suggests the NEA is behind the suit, which it is not. Is it racist? I can't tell the intentions of the selection of the picture. There is no race angle that really makes much sense to me.
So, my personal reaction is that it is a very odd photo choice, but that's about it.
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Bob_Keeshan (Anonymous) says…
Just looked at the photo.
Apparently at Kansas Liberty they believe it's All About the Benjamins.
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Valkyrie_of_Reason (Kathy Getto) says…
You are so right, kugrad -plenty to dislike about the article. It causes me great sadness knowing there are so many, our legislature at the top of the list, who refuse to invest in our children.
Interesting article getreal.
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Boston_Corbett (Anonymous) says…
I'm not sure why Kathy Cook wants to give Mary Pilcher Cook free publicity.
31 August 2009
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Valkyrie_of_Reason (Kathy Getto) says…
So true, Boston, especially since it is making her look like a fool in the process.
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10:52 a.m. Kansas will experience the greatest temperature change of any state by the end of the century because of carbon dioxide emissions affecting the climate, a new study says.
The analysis by The Nature Conservancy says that by 2100 Kansas will see an increase of 10.4 degrees in average annual temperature if CO2 emissions continue to increase at the current rate.
Other Midwestern states follow close behind with increases projected in Nebraska, 10.3 degrees; Iowa, 10.2 degrees; and South Dakota, 10 degrees.
“If current trends continue, the weather and landscapes of the future will be nearly unrecognizable compared to what we are used to,” said Jonathan Hoekstra, director of climate change for The Nature Conservancy.
The organization said such temperature changes will cause shifts in agriculture, depletion of water sources and increase outbreaks of insect pests.
The projections were based on data compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The projections can be found at www.climatewizard.org, which was developed by The Nature Conservancy, the University of Washington and University of Southern Mississippi.
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So the Apocalypse Cult has targeted Kansas. (Yawn)
“To do that we need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” – Stephen Schneider, lead 2007 UN IPCC report author and climate alarmist.
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alm77 (Anonymous) says…
logic, I think a bigger issue is whether or not Bow-Wow consented to having his photo used in this ad.
I don't see the racial connotation, but that doesn't mean anything.
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tbaker (Anonymous) says…
“Man-made global warming is probably the single largest hoax ever pulled on the human race, but we'll never know because the those like Al Gore who claim to know this is happening and are trying to sell this idea won't publicly debate the science, or should I say the lack of it. Global Warming is nothing but another excuse to further expand government and take more of our money cleverly disguised as saving the planet.”
So somehow the vast majority of the world's climate scientists and most scientific organizations all somehow secretly met with Al Gore and “his like” to come up with this “hoax” and fake all of that scientific data. You might have a disagreement with the details and interpretation of the science - that would be legitimate, as long as you could back it up. However, calling it a “hoax” is ignorant, at best, and disingenuous, at worst.
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situveux1 (Anonymous) says…
Your link is wrong to Kansas Liberty. you left off the “y”.
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
alm77 nails it—this could be a big copyright/intellectual property issue.
Apparently, to the Kansas Liberty folks, “liberty” doesn't extend to anything a person creates artistically. If they're willing to (mis)appropriate an image for their own agenda… what will they (mis)appropriate next? Money? Time?
And these are the same folks that love to point the finger across the aisle and scream words like “socialist” and “communist” and make references to other things.
Not the first time a politician has illegally used the work of a singer or musician without permission… and it won't be the last.
Agnostick
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
BuenaVista, this has moved way beyond race.
Bow-Wow is a rapper, or rap artist/recording artist, signed under the Cash Money Records label, based in New Orleans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Mon…
Cash Money has a couple of agreements with Universal Music Group—and Universal does *not* take kindly to intellectual property violations of any kind.
The picture is of Bow-Wow, but it could just as easily be a picture of Jay-Z, Madonna, Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, or even Elvis Presley.
I'd say the big issue now boils down to this:
The owners and operators of KansasLiberty.com have appropriated the image of a celebrity for use on their web site… to push a particular political agenda or issue. Did they seek any kind of permission or authorization from the person featured in the picture, or the owner of the image in question?
There is not even a traditional photo credit on the image in question.
This would be no different than the folks at MoveOn.org using a picture of “The Terminator” without seeking the permission of either Arnold, or the movie studio that owns the movie.
There is no way that you, BuenaVista, or anyone else can steer away from this issue.
I'm right on this, and that's all there is to it. :p
Again: Does KansasLiberty.com have permission to use this image?
I predict a “Cease and Desist” letter in the next 24-48 hours.
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jimmyjms (Anonymous) says…
Desperation time for the GOP.
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svenway_park (Anonymous) says…
Agnostic: Move-on can, and so can Liberty. It's called fair-use.
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situveux1 (Anonymous) says…
How dare someone make me look at a picture of a black man. Aren't there laws against that?
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
svenway_park: I'm well aware of Fair Use. Since we're not talking about parody/satire, and since KansasLiberty.com is not an educational or non-profit endeavor, can you please explain for us… how KansasLiberty.com is granted fair use under current law? Specifically, what statutes or legal precedents are they protected under?
Thank you.
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situveux1 (Anonymous) says…
Why don't you just sue them Ag and be done with it?
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Hmmmmmmmmm..
Used to be that one was in a bucket of biosolids for not using a “black” person in ads, now one can get into trouble for including a black person.
What do these lunatics want?
Reads like a great big “Catch-22” to me.