Americans Explain Why The U.S. Has Never Been A Racist Country
Americans Explain Why The U.S. Has Never Been A Racist Country
During a recent interview, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said that America had “never been a racist country.” The Onion asked Americans why our history has always been color-blind, and this is what they said.
“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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Paul Gruber, Warehouse Manager “America is not a racist country, but a federation of racist states.”
49I 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
36"We gave you equality and we can take it away!" Lmao
19If somebody has to give you equality, it's not equality.
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Not to mention “ Slavery was good for Black people”. Nothing boils my blood more than this sentence.
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Most of our mass shooters target very diverse crowds of innocent people
Got a double play with that one.
57“How many times do I have to cite very selective lines from the Constitution before people understand this?”
Lol
35As an indigenous Canadian .... I've actually heard a variation of this one before
“I’ve never faced any discrimination for being 3% Cherokee.”
28I've heard "why can't these people just get their shit together? Their land was taken hundreds of years ago!" Meanwhile the mentally ill 40 year old native guy down the street was raped and abused in residential schools, and was taken from his family and community.
Too many Canadians think the trauma inflicted on first Nations people happened a long time ago and wonder why they're so fucked up to this day. They don't realize this residential school shit JUST ended and the anti first nations racism is still rampant
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You know, come to think of it, I never have met a slave before. Case closed, our white hands are clean (obviously).
14Reminds me of my white, wealthy, old, female neighbor who tells my dark ass that cops are good guys cause they've always treated HER well.
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Ya you can’t call it racism when it’s genocide. Right???????
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