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The original Doug on Black Jeopardy sketch is my absolute favorite sketch they've ever done.
It's so obvious that poor white people would get along with and want to same things as minorities if they could just get over that racism and stop falling for the manipulation by religious and political leaders
Which is why they killed Martin Luther King, Jr. He was starting to make progress bringing poor people off all backgrounds together and that was a threat to the powers that be.
The FBI killed him, Cash was innocent.
And Malcolm x was killed within months of denouncing the racism of the NoI.
And Fred Hampton was killed the same year as founding the rainbow coalition.
To be fair Hampton had to be stopped. If permitted to continue AIDS and crack wouldn’t have hurt nearly as many nor could the state ensure a new wave of prison “workers” every few weeks. /s
It doesn't happen in a vacuum. There's generations of racism bred into them, including the politicians and religious leaders.
That kinda hate makes for a very powerful weapon.
No. Absolutely not. Not even maybe.
Taught. The racism is taught.
Yes, obviously racism isn't genetic, but it has very, very deep roots.
I dunno, it's hard to tell who is high on their own supply or who is just taking advantage