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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“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?”

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 51 points 1 year ago

This is my fave:

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

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

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