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ismnotwasm

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8. Right?

Reply to JHan (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 27, 2017, 11:02 AM

Jul 2017

It's not an evolving state--it was THERE boom. It was there before America. I keep thinking of this scene from "American Gods"--one line isn't in this clip I don't think-- "oh you motherfuckers don't know you're black yet"

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A British friend told me, "It's bizarre that 'black' and 'poor' are seen as synonymous in the US." [View all] YoungDemCA Jul 2017 OP

Very perceptive of him Warpy Jul 2017 #1

I will ignore the other comment for the obvious reason and point out to you Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #2

Things in the U.K. aren't so peachy either JHan Jul 2017 #3

Yet when black folks point out JustAnotherGen Jul 2017 #4

++++++++++ Lol JHan Jul 2017 #5

Jesus. White supremacy is attached to historical colonialism. What the hell do you men "the more"? ismnotwasm Jul 2017 #6

++ White supremacy has been a constitutive fact of American politics since inception. JHan Jul 2017 #7

Right? ismnotwasm Jul 2017 #8

damn, and I haven't watched that yet. JHan Jul 2017 #9

The series starts out with a "Somewhere in America" segment ismnotwasm Jul 2017 #10

++++ very powerful. JHan Jul 2017 #11

Watch it if you can JustAnotherGen Jul 2017 #12