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Americans Explain Why The U.S. Has Never Been A Racist Country (www.theonion.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 60 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

This is my fave:

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

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I literally heard these exact words once: "we gave them equality and it wasn't enough". Yup.

My response was 'they were equals before, we didn't give them anything.' and all i got in response was a strong signal that the conversation was over

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 19 points 11 months ago

"We gave you equality and we can take it away!" Lmao

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

If somebody has to give you equality, it's not equality.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

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