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African American

kwassa

(23,340 posts) Fri Jul 8, 2016, 10:41 PM Jul 2016

What a depressing week. [View all]

All the shootings, all the video, all the lives lost.

Guns, guns, and more guns.

I feel like no progress has been made in all the decades I've been alive, and I know it extends backwards for many generations before that. I expect more from the modern era, and I am not seeing it.

I wish I had something more insightful to say, but I don't. It is all just so sad.

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What a depressing week. [View all] kwassa Jul 2016 OP

It is sad. But the struggle goes on. leftofcool Jul 2016 #1

Republicans are saying we need to come together as a country. That is a huge applegrove Jul 2016 #2

Thank you for that positive note. nt babylonsister Jul 2016 #3

A sad K&R Night Watchman Jul 2016 #4

It happens again and again to me. rusty quoin Jul 2016 #5

Yes. The only thing sadder is that if the first two incidents had of happened years applegrove Jul 2016 #6

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