• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    “This so-called racist nation is the same one that gave Black Americans their own exclusive water fountains.”

    Whew. Some of these sound a little too much like things that have actually been said, like:

    “We gave them jobs, didn’t we?”

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      1 year ago

      This is my fave:

      Paul Gruber, Warehouse Manager “America is not a racist country, but a federation of racist states.”

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      Not to mention “ Slavery was good for Black people”. Nothing boils my blood more than this sentence.