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Group Wants to Change Name of MN Town Because of Racial Slur What's in a name?  Apparently a lot, depending on the name and what it can possibly mean.  Even if that was not the original intention, it's something that can happen.  This is what brings us to the Minnesota town of Coon Rapids. Googlemaps.com I've heard of this town obviously all of my life, and never once did I think of any racist connotation.  Not that I didn't think it was a racial thing, I just didn't think about it one way or another.  But I can see if it's pointed out, how the name could have a racist connotation.  The...

Party to the congresswoman's comments. it was an effort to paint the entire democratic party with the same brush he's painting these four congress women they are struggling now to deal with what happened last night, as his supporters went back to his original comments. using that phrase go back which i think everyone knows now has a racist connotation, but a racist origin and the white house is struggling to explain that. >> my next guests have seen both the rise of the trump administration, as well as intraparty squabbles among republicans and democrats up close. john boehner is the former ho...

To [ bleep ] it up. >> [ bleep ] that dude up. listen, my reputation precedes me. ain't a [ bleep ] going to mess with me. you know why, i'm going to bring that [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. i didn't do that. i didn't do that. i mean, that's a major breakthrough for me. >> no, you allegedly hit him over the head with a mop thing and nearly killed him. >> now, he ain't got no signs of a mop wringer hitting him in his head. >> you didn't see him after. >> huh? >> you didn't see him after. >> i just seen the dude! he bit off more than he can chew. and because he got served, i'm responsible for that? no, i...

Of flack in some of the comments in the west by people who said "washington post." people who said your father was a racist, he spoke at the county fair in 1980 and used the phrase states' rights. he used the phrase states' rights, he probably shouldn't have, but he used it very literally. i don't think he had a clue that there was a racist connotation to that phrase. should he have known? should people in his campaign have told him? yes. apparently they didn't. but the idea that ronald reagan was sending out dog whistles to white nationists and the ku klux klan is absurd. i can't defend his p...

Talking about is empathy. >> yes, and also you know, i made it clear in this piece because i got a lot of -- a lot of flack in some of the comments in the west by people who said your father was a racist, he spoke at the county fair in 1980 and used the phrase states' rights. he used the phrase states' rights, he probably shouldn't have, but he used it very literally. i don't think he had a clue that there was a racist connotation to that phrase. should he have known? should people in his campaign have told him? yes. apparently they didn't. but the idea that ronald reagan was sending out dog w...