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====Robert 'Say' MacIntosh====
 
====Robert 'Say' MacIntosh====
 
Robert 'Say' MacIntosh is a civil rights activist who the ''Arkansas Democrat'' newspaper named Arkansan of the Year in the late 1970s for his charitable work with children in Little Rock's housing projects.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20080926012344/http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/butlercenter/manuscripts/collection/mss97-43.html</ref> MacIntosh unsuccesfully ran for public office under Arkansas's racial gerrymanderring and minority voter suppression laws of the Clinton era, including as Lieutant Governor in 1980. He considered challenging Bill Clinton in the 1986 Democratic gubernatorial primary, but backed out when another African-American candidate, former anti-poverty agency head W. Dean Goldsby, filed on the last day.
 
Robert 'Say' MacIntosh is a civil rights activist who the ''Arkansas Democrat'' newspaper named Arkansan of the Year in the late 1970s for his charitable work with children in Little Rock's housing projects.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20080926012344/http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/butlercenter/manuscripts/collection/mss97-43.html</ref> MacIntosh unsuccesfully ran for public office under Arkansas's racial gerrymanderring and minority voter suppression laws of the Clinton era, including as Lieutant Governor in 1980. He considered challenging Bill Clinton in the 1986 Democratic gubernatorial primary, but backed out when another African-American candidate, former anti-poverty agency head W. Dean Goldsby, filed on the last day.
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[[File:Arkansas State Flag.gif|right]|thumb|The Arkansas State Flag. The top star above Arkansas represents the slave holding Confederacy, an Act signed into law by Clinton.]]
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[[File:Arkansas State Flag.gif|right|thumb|The Arkansas State Flag. The top star above Arkansas represents the slave holding Confederacy, an Act signed into law by Clinton.]]
 
A tree was ceremoniously planted on the Arkansas capitol grounds in the Clinton years on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to honor Dr. King. McIntosh showed up the next day and chopped it down in front of the press, and commented, "No black man was invited to be present for the tree planting. I'm cutting it down till blacks are invited to be part of the political process in Little Rock." Wikipedia says "few debate that he has been a major part of local color in Arkansas."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_"Say"_McIntosh</ref>
 
A tree was ceremoniously planted on the Arkansas capitol grounds in the Clinton years on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to honor Dr. King. McIntosh showed up the next day and chopped it down in front of the press, and commented, "No black man was invited to be present for the tree planting. I'm cutting it down till blacks are invited to be part of the political process in Little Rock." Wikipedia says "few debate that he has been a major part of local color in Arkansas."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_"Say"_McIntosh</ref>
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While Hillary Clinton stumbled on the  [[United States presidential election, 2016|campaign trail for president in 2016]], Clinton surrogates and apologists breathlessly awaited the release of Bill, her "not-so-secret weapon";<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-unleash-secret-weapon-bill-clinton-january/story?id=35870901 Hillary Clinton to Unleash Her 'Not So Secret Weapon'], By MATTHEW CLAIBORNE, ABC News , Dec 20, 2015.</ref> as Bill's performance on the trail faltered rumors abounded that Mr. Clinton was suffering from the early stages of [[syphilis|syphlitic]] [[dementia]].<ref>[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110710183312AAgzIbp Yahoo Answer: Does Anyone Know How advanced is Bill Clinton's syphilis?],  answers.yahoo.com</ref><ref>
 
While Hillary Clinton stumbled on the  [[United States presidential election, 2016|campaign trail for president in 2016]], Clinton surrogates and apologists breathlessly awaited the release of Bill, her "not-so-secret weapon";<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-unleash-secret-weapon-bill-clinton-january/story?id=35870901 Hillary Clinton to Unleash Her 'Not So Secret Weapon'], By MATTHEW CLAIBORNE, ABC News , Dec 20, 2015.</ref> as Bill's performance on the trail faltered rumors abounded that Mr. Clinton was suffering from the early stages of [[syphilis|syphlitic]] [[dementia]].<ref>[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110710183312AAgzIbp Yahoo Answer: Does Anyone Know How advanced is Bill Clinton's syphilis?],  answers.yahoo.com</ref><ref>
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==Laureate International Universities==
 
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