Housing Discrimination: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Yes!

Ain't it though? And it's the reality of millions of Black Americans in 2021.

That made me so sad and angry!!!!

I wish John and the show would let things like that sink in, rather than try to make a joke right after… yes comedic relief is very important in hard stories like this but slow down sometimes, right?

When my wife and I were selling our last home, we took down all family pictures. We also let our realtor be present when the appraiser came to our home instead of us. We already knew from hearing things like this and we weren’t going to take any chances.

wonderfull =D

Yeah, for the native Americans.

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Awesome!

explain yourself you want to kick people out of home they own for people of color and white people can be homeless

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Or knew and was in utter denial

I want to say that's harsh but it's also kind of true

Future generations will continue to be shocked…Modern state governments are making a huge push to prevent historians from teaching the reality of the systemic racism that continues to pervade our culture.

Yeah, I was a history buff growing up and in my early 20s. It wasn't until I got in college and majoring in history that I saw the seemy underside to our history. For example, the Tulsa massacre. Never heard of it before college. There is a coterie of people that have been working really hard to bury what happened. I remember a photo I saw of a lynching I found researching another event. In this case, pretty much the entirety of this small Tennessee town had turned out to murder these two black boys, torturing them horribly beforehand. This pic must have had several hundred whites underneath the hanging tree, most smiling, proud of what they did. It sickened me to know that some of those people were still alive, never having faced the slightest consequence for their crime.

Oh, so it was returned to the Native Americans who lived and worked on that beach for several millennia before occupation? :). They should get a sign at least now yeah? :)

Thanks for telling us.

Thanks for the update, I hope they get their money they're owed too.

@@jaegrant6441 J. flippin'..C..

@@jaegrant6441 as an Indigenous person, fuckin THANK YOU for acknowledging who "rightfully" "owns" the land. And we're not assholes, we've historically always aligned with Black people, so I'm very positive the Indigenous people in question would gladly share the land with Bruce and his family.

It's bloody horrible. I am tearing up. :/

What sucks is that current black home owners who are in the process of selling have to remove all photos, etc. - and only their realtors are there when the house shows - to sell their homes for a good price; this is akin to everything she said.

What the hell... I love when we try to say our country isn't racist. There's sooooo many examples of blatant and overt racism that was built into the construction of our neighborhoods, jobs, and valuations of property. The worst people here? The ones calling me un-American for saying such things. We have a disgusting past that we shouldn't ignore, and we have to continue to try and do better in the future. Otherwise, let the leaders just come out and admit what they want so everyone that isn't in on that plan can leave and let the "whites only" supremacy have their country and let it burn. Gross that we have done what we did over and over and over the last 400+ years.

They need to stop turning neighborhoods into hoods.

@@robm2681 You need to stop being racist.

“I said hell I’m gonna join them”. Truly a woman ahead of her times

Can we move her into the whitehouse that year and see if today looks different.

@@williammckenzie6865 exactly. It's why I hate the whole "oh he comes from a different generation, you can't blame him for being incredibly racist". No, people knew what racism was back then. They knew the implications, they chose to act this way. Was it harder to be an ally and easier to just go along with it? Yeah, doesn't make it right, just means you value your comfort over the humanity of others

@@bluecanine3374 Holy Cow!!! Nicely said! I am 56 yr old. And your right on the money. I was a teen in the '70's and 80's. It's how we treated many older members of our family. Pretend it had something to do with their drinking or era they grew up. It wasn't until later that I understood how wrong that was. And I never would have put it into words as well as you have.

@@bluecanine3374 This^

How are we supposed to know what "the knife" is if you won't tell us? You can't be offended by the concept of everything without saying why it offended you "syrup is racist how it is how it is how it is how is it racist it is how"

@@filmtheory783 I think you are conflating the pc movement with my message. when Malcolm x made this statement he clearly and repeatedly described what the knife is and in some cases even described at as literal violence leaving no room for imagination what the knife is and who is doing the stabbing. Malcolm x also famously said a white liberal is the most dangerous white person, paraphrasing here. I quoted the statement in terms of racial discrimination in housing in usa which no liberal or conservative can deny and the anology was meant to highlight that the racist American establishments (mainly the banking liberals) still have the knife in the people's back and not only are they pulling it out but pressing harder, the only difference is they use modern pc means to achieve this. One more note, Americans have to realise that seeing the world out the lens of western right left wing politics is very subjective and lacks a world perspective, from a world perspective the most conservative american is just another liberal leftist pc zombie, comparatively to the average human world wide. so i encourage you to have a more objective outlook in life and not bring your pitty western left right wing politics into places where it doesn't matter and in reality is just pitty rivalary designed to brainwash Americans that they have democracy and that western govs dont actually just work for corporations, and distract the ppl from the fact that the western bankers which govs are slaves to are giving China more money in order to destroy Abrahamic monotheism. peace salam and happy truth seeking

@@filmtheory783 Ah, yes, because you don't have the arbiter of (most of) all human knowledge sitting right within arm's reach as you're reading this that you cannot _possibly_ search through.
...Snark aside, Aunt Jemima is a racist character due to a long, storied history- primarily because (and I'm quoting an NBC article here): "The character of Aunt Jemima is an invitation to white people to indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people - and by extension, all of Black America - as submissive, self-effacing, loyal, pacified and pacifying. It positions Black people as boxed in, prepackaged and ready to satisfy; it’s the problem of all consumption, only laced with racial overtones."
It's part of a bigger issue, but- not to mention, the original Aunt Jemima was based off a woman named Nancy Green, and Nancy was enslaved. Nancy had her appearance taken and corrupted for use in pancake mix and, later on, made into a toy for white antebellum children to play with.
Aunt Jemima's history is absolutely racist to its core, but that's not the point here. The point is that there has been deep, economic and emotional harm wrought upon Black Americans from the day they were forcefully brought to America. That is the knife. That from the moment Black Americans were brought to America as *property,* and not *_people,_* it has inflicted a deep wound that the people in power, our government, still refuse to fully accept.

The first three minutes of this video show a black family getting land worth 20 million dollars stolen from them by a local government after the KKK burned a cross on their property and you’re asking what the knife is?
The effects of systemic racism have conspired to keep African-Americans as economically, socially, and politically marginalized as possible. White America as a whole has refused time and again to make systemic changes to fix this. This is what Malcolm X meant by not acknowledging the knife.
In his view (and my own), pulling out the knife (making changes to the racist system to make POC’s not marginalized) is only half the battle. POC’s and especially African-Americans would still be at a disadvantage compared to white Americans because their ancestors had lived under those racist systems.
Going back to the family I mentioned in the beginning of this comment, pulling out the knife would be making sure that something like that could never happen again. It is not enough because the family in the present day would still feel the affects of the theft. Only by either returning the land or paying the 20 million dollars would the family achieve justice for past actions. Anything less would not be healing the wound because those that committed the theft, in this case the state, would still be benefitting from it at the expense of every member of that family who should have benefited from it.

@@filmtheory783 "How are we supposed to know what "the knife" is if you won't tell us?"
Apparently it's worse than not admitting. It is actively trying to convince everyone that the knife...is actually syrup.

18~ minutes? in he almost talked about the same problem's with LGBTQ 🏳‍🌈rights and housing discrimination as it to is a problem and looking back the federal government officials ceased ownership and rights from jew's/Mormon's with bi-female/polygamy ( also transgender is a ruff times as some see it as being gay/homosexuality ) marriage's and also swinger's-fidelity-married and gay marriage ect.
not saying afro American/others are less important just disappointed that there's not much in the video coverage on the other that is still a major problem
my county/city USA 🇺🇸 has by-laws that prohibit 2 or more unrelated/married people living together ( or mail being delivered and packages 📦ect ) or there kids staying there/with-them for the weekend or longer ( 12 hours maximum time limit or the city and cop's get called ect ) ect. so gay marriage rights isn't being covered or M+M+M or F+F+F or mf+mf marriages ( 5 linked marriage licenses and full benefits should be covered anything less is bad law, ie Edmonds act it's bad 🤦🏻‍♂ ) are illegal in this city just on zoning, yes i don't want slum lords ( my uncle/dad's-side is one and or is okay trying to be 1, lucky for the most part there's laws against it ) like ie extreme-example 20 adults living under one 3k-ft 🏡 in not a marriage/relationship but im not okay with being homophobic or racist , also not in favour of a house/block being used for a hotel/resorts room's when it's not setup for it and not zoned for it ect

And MAGATS and my mother in law still insist this isn’t true and systemic racism doesn’t exist.
I know because she tried to correct our daughter, and my husband and blamed me for it.
A couple of days later, it was all my fault for making their son and our daughter know that. “That’s not true.”
Well, I did try to teach a wee bit of history, but neither have talked to us since.
Yes. My father in law is an evangelical preacher man.
It’s SAD.

It should be considered public service..

​@@RendaJaneoouuf you poor thing!😅

Yeah, I don't think that disparity in affordability was addressed enough.

They were handed life on a silver platter and then devoted the rest of their lives to depriving everyone after them of the benefits that got them where they were. Would it surprise you to learn that in the 1970s the Baby Boomers were nicknamed "The 'Me' Generation"? Seems like they've been trying to foist that off on every successive generation since then.

It was easy because a portion of the taxpayers were denied access to federal benefits. There was more to pass around to the boomers.

@@UnDark1 Yes, but it still would have been easier to get established in their generation if a portion of the taxpayers weren't denied access. Back then federal programs were actually funded, the ultra rich had less tax loopholes so they paid (closer to) their fair share in taxes, and college tuition was subsidized by the government (making it free for many Americans).
Today... we get less federal benefits due to underfunding AND a portion of taxpayers are denied those benefits. Boomers truly combined the worst of both worlds for future generations.

Don't blame it on federal benefits.

Lol

I'm curious what these appraisals looked like. Appraisals all need evidence to back up their opinion.

The laughter @@despain8726 ? 👀
Only a Clansman would.. 🤔

@@jashanestone Only a Nazi would think that only a klansman would laugh.

They definitely were real...so do you want real tears like the survivors from the 1921 Tulsa massacre showed...or the family of Emmitt Tills?

Indeed

She looks a lot like my grandma, and honestly seems to act like her too. I have the greatest grandparents that have ever existed.

Rose, opened the book and read it. Not judging it by the cover.
Something we all need to do a little bit more.

​​@@Angry5704 congrats! Make sure you cherish every moment you spend with them and get their recipes (Grandmas always have the best recipes. If you have those it will help you get through the inevitable grief 🙏)

it does not tho. Yes it shows that this argument is not just a get-out-of-jail card one can hide behind. Bad things were bad even before, but circumstances matter a LOT.

Fuck porches, they should do it in a pool bar, just to stick it extra hard to the racists.

The truth is EVERY other race gets wasted on their front porches in different communities. They are feeding a false narrative that only African Americans do that. PEOPLE do!

Cringe!

I'd rather just go to work like all my neighbors. I don't drink that much either and have like zero tolerance. Lol

The world would be a better place if people were more like Rose and Angie.

Good catch!

And?

@@abiyoyo9831 You dont live down south do you?

@@abiyoyo9831 i guess you had not heard all those "states rights" we been hearing for decades.

@@woaddragonSo wars can’t be fought for multiple reasons?

😂 I was finishing a Grisham novel

I do that allll the time but things like this distract me too much.

RiGhT?! I was at that moment looking up other things while listening. It was so eerie when he suddenly sounded like he was getting on my case for it! ;D

@@NoraDiniro1of7 i missed that statement entirely... divided attention. Not new info but im glad it's getting a great forum.

Hey. It's called multitasking.

Now that house is probably worth 10 times as much

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Everyone devalues their house via wear and tear

Well said.

@@konigstiger3252 Good point. Racism *and* those who turn a blind eye to it. Well illustrated. Ta

You don’t seem to know what quotation marks are for. “”. You use those when you are quoting what someone actually said

@Lee Johnson You don’t seem understand a joke

@@julioklj8 Yeah that's pretty inaccurate. Quotation marks exist to indicate direct speech. And even though these words have only been attributed to him, you still need quotation marks.

He's right that 99% of white Americans alive today are not responsible for the plight of African American people. But that's only relevant if reparations happen at the expense of white people, which is not true. All that is needed to fund reparations is taking money out of the military budget, or raising taxes on the middle and upper class. America has plenty of wealth to go around

@@julioklj8 STFU LEE.

You just noticed he was full of crap...? You do know that his salary depends on him keeping the same positions he had 5 years ago, and sounded good to his supporters.

@SkippyGipper He's some conservative talk show guy, probably most well known for proudly not pleasing his wife sexually.

Ben is a grifter

@@aoeu256 I relized he was full of crap when he was shilling for jan 6

Yep. For every angry conservative who thinks everyone who calls out racism is an entitled whiner, let them look at this history here!

WTF...

I say abolition in quotations as our prison system is basically replaced slavery and when/if you get out for the long haul its likely a wage slavery situation

This is indeed a fact. When people call this country racist, and claim that is the country’s foundation they’re right. We have centuries of documents/receipts that prove so.

@@user-qp4ij4yl8y ok and black people are incarcerated at 5x the rate of white people

@@user-qp4ij4yl8y elaborate on that, you're walking the line between based and cringe depending on your intent by putting races in quotations and by what experience you're referring to.
If you're referring to excessive incarceration and wage slavery yes people of all ethnicities experience this in the us, as we are all as workers oppressed and exploited to varying degrees under a capitalist organization of the economy, but certain demographics are disproportionally oppressed, which kind of what the whole video this thread is on is about, but its a video made my a massive corporation that can't be too honest about systemic issues that it benefits from.

They ARE planning on giving the land back. Didn't you watch the rest?

@@pjv9361 the County is planning on giving it back, the city council only put 350k towards art

@@pjv9361 but will they give back the land they stole from the nativ amaricans?

@@AHJ1001 Native americans had no concept of land ownership.

@@franklinnartz1381 Might as well deprive someone of oxygen and then say "It's okay, he had no concept of oxygen ownership".

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Great analogy!

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Uh, so, you think getting the knife out is not progress? Okay, leave in there then.

@@TDrudley you got them there, congrats!

I cringed when he missed that easy layup!

I was legitimately yelling at the screen when he didn't say that. Such a massive missed opportunity.

This is more epic. The keyword is in the name. "SNOOP"

Bravo

He also could have brought in a fat guy with an orange mustache to say “snooping as usual, I see!”, but life hits different.

and this STILL perpetuates thru-out the armed forces today, as all of the fore-mentioned problems/tricks exist today.

Not to mention they were segregated and treated abysmally whilst fighting by their own peers. A good number of them just stayed in Europe. I can’t say that I blame them.

Remember when Vietnam vets came home and got spit on? You are right. It is a different shade of the same evil.

An evil that the nazis literally took notes from.

Pretty heart breaking!

Me too.

that's just brutal, nobody should have to live through this

Ehhh maybe because they got skin in the game? Or at least assume they have?

@@Chris-rg6nm Preach!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

@@Chris-rg6nm We all sadly know why. America has a long long very long way to go.

Or the Sicilians who were over run by the Moors? And let's not forget the Irish and the Chinese as well.

Yes, what America did to the Moors is unacceptable. #justiceforpangea

they already are. where do you think indian casinos come from? also your "whataboutism" has been noted.

Then they'll be no land left! :)

You should start Nd donate your money to minorities. You know give the. Downpayments on homes out of the kindness of your ❤.....oh wait you want tax payers to pay for it to only a few races. There is a name for that racism. (Coming from an immagrant)

So Native Americans should also pay reparation as their ancestors owned slaves, black people in Africa should pay because they sold the slaves were would it end. By the way black people in America owned slaves so should they have to pay also.

Also, Mitch, it DOES NOT MATTER who was responsible, this isn't about figuring out who's to blame (and if it was, black folks wouldn't need white help with that), it's about using government policy to mitigate the harm of past government policy. This isn't just a matter of historical injustice, it's also simple, straightforward math.

@@johnree6106 someone didn't watch the video.

@@CatHasOpinions734 His family owned slaves. Just look it up.

Agree that he sucks, but just a polite correction: the civil war was in the 1860s. That's 160 years.

@@MrBigsteve518 US? overpopulated? please wait a minute as europe and most of the rest of the world has a good laugh
you have a country that could contain europe with less than half of the population - heck germany alone has a quarter of the US population... at 1/30th of the land area
the lack of housing isnt a matter of population - its a matter of wealth distribution... when 99% of the wealth is in the hand of 1% of the people... you probably should not be surprised that the 1% dont care about a lot of the other 99% not being able to have food, shelter and healthcare

@@MrBigsteve518 immigration has historically benefited nations in many different ways
what is the point of the almost religious worship of the founding politicians of the US? they werent some super enlightened wizards that could make perfect laws... they were just the regular flawed product of their times, and plenty of them very incredibly racist - and their views are pretty much irelevant to current affairs
oh and "The jobs were sent to Mexico and China" - yeah no... the problem in the us isnt that there are no jobs - its that most jobs arent paid a wage you can live off
and trade zones without tarriffs are to your advantage - it means that its cheap to import materials, so that end products tend to be cheaper for the end consumer
there are no marxist forces working to destroy the us -
first off...there arent any relevant powers that are actually marxist
second the US doesnt need help destroying itself - capitalism and the dismantling of educational systems by your elected right extremists does a fine job on its own
mind you i doubt you will care about anything i said - you sound so far down the conspiracy hole that youve left reality far far behind

Now if we could extend that treatment to the rest of police, we might be on to something

@@MrBigsteve518 there are more than 15 million vacant homes in the US and around 600,000 homeless people. There aren't enough total homes for every person in the US to have one, but I don't think we are even close to being overpopulated, especially compared to the amount of land in America that is untouched.

@@SharienGaming We will have to keep deforesting for more grazing/farmland/lumber for houses if our population continues to expand which it is doing mainly due to immigration since U.S. birth rates have only been at replacement levels for decades.

thank you civil rights kishibe

They got married once it became legal for them to do so...

Are they alive?, it would be great an interview.

@@davidhollenshead4892 don´t make it somethink disgusting

@@ThelastArchdemon47 how is it disgusting if they DID marry?

Yea thats how they squeeze tax payers for money, by over budgeting and then convincing everyone that it's for the good of the community

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And they paid it to themselves. They own the contractors who built it.

The State of California recently returned the land to the Bruce family.

It’s the real estate equivalent of DEI programs in disproportionately white workplaces 😂 It’s an effort to look good without making change

That is the point of Critical Race Theory, when you here people arguing against teaching Critical Race Theory this is what they are trying not to teach.

I was a history professor and wish I could go back in time and redo my lectures on Levittown.

In Texas they will be omitting more than just this sadly. They're getting rid of reaching about kkk, jim crow, MLK and much much more. It needs to be stopped!

I did teach this and got summoned to the principal's office for making white students uncomfortable. I was ordered not to show a video illustrating the accumulation of wealth by white people that was impossible for non-white people. Teachers have to be backed up by administration, Boards of Education, and the community.

It’s been made illegal to discuss in my state. Good job, Oklahoma

This is so sad, I'm sorry that this happened to your family

While also still playing on easy mode by willingly taking part in the bounty of the oppressors that came before~

@Naughty Spicy Corner nope cuz black people did not kill 400 million whites over the course of 500 years

I totally understand the anger there. Those (white) people think it's perfectly fine to just throw them a bone and pretend that'll be that then. What on Earth is that plaque gonna do for them ?!

Yeeeeeeees!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

But the land wasn’t worth $20 mil when it was taken. It was not the rich beach enclave it is now. 30 land owners had their properties taken by eminent domain. Only 6 were black. So the white owners should get their land back too?

@@ninadaly7639 I hope you are joking. Even if the land wasn't worth $20m then, it is now. If that land wasnt stolen, that BLACK family should have been able to gain from that generational wealth. Thats just basic common sense. I CANT believe that you are focusing on the white families when black people have had their wealth literally taken from them since we were brought here. You had to basically iignore ALL of what the original message was. People like YOU keep America down.

@@brittanymatthews6962 But if white people had their land taken by eminent domain at the same time too, why shouldn’t they also be compensated by the County. Their land is likely worth $20+ million as well. How are you justifying their exclusion? Why aren’t they entitled to compensation too? Injustice is injustice. Of course, one could argue that had the taking not occurred 100 years ago, the land might not have increased in value to the extent it has, right? How could anyone know? 100 years of not paying property taxes, not maintaining or utilizing the land and now the government gives it back to the family to sell and divide the proceeds? For doing……well….. nothing? What’s next? If a black family wanted to buy a house before the Fair Housing act came into play in 1968 and was denied a mortgage, should they now be given the property they wanted to buy but were denied? That would be impossible not to mention ridiculous. I thought being treated “equally” was the goal? How is giving one family $20 mil they did not earn going to help alleviate “systemic racism?” Besides which, I hate to tell you this, but if we keep
Allowing the handful of billionaires in this country, several of whom are black, to keep hoarding money you can kiss generational wealth for everyone else goodbye. “Generational wealth” is not a right or an entitlement it’s an economic condition that is disappearing for ALL OF US. I’m afraid it’s pretty much a moot issue as 75% of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck. White people can’t give you what they don’t have. Shouldn’t we be standing together as Americans against the money hoarders who will end democracy if they amass enough because they will own and therefore control everything? If that happens, no one is going to give a rats ass what anyone wants.

Ron Mueller ..ha ha "11 gut-wrenching minutes"

I submit you're not any more educated if you're listening to John Oliver.

Yea bro it’s called brain washing

@@jschuler53 HAHA and I mean it as a compliment.I truly enjoy his comedy and exposing a lot of broken systems that exist

Educate LMAO

I'll join you as well and bring some food to munch on 😊

Rose and Angie are roll models.

We need a Rose for every Karen, that'd straighten things out.

Come to Baltimore! We still day drink on stoops. Can’t promise no racism, but compared to other cities in the US, we’ve got better vibes. Then again I’m biased.

I'll bring gummies if you let me come 🙃😉

We like Rose. Let's all be a Rose.

Her name suited her... very fitting. We like Rose

So sweet lol

Sigh, I wish this worked for me. I have a sister named Rose, but she’s a total Karen 🤭

@@Emiliapocalypse I'd view it in terms of a title, not a name so you can separate Karen from A Karen.

oh dam! yeah--- I always am at work when I watch this so... felt this comment-

How dare he call us out like this 🤣

And then I did switch back to KRplus and totally agree! That tree is HOT!

I was too distracted by work to catch that sentence lol

Gawd, I'm getting back there before he says it!!!

I'm interested

Felt so much like he was calling me out lol

I had to look up from my phone in shame lol. Was worth it. That tree can indeed, get it lol.

Hey I had Digimon stuff to do okay, I mean it's not as important as what John was talking about but still it's fun.

Stop reading all of those comments and look at me 🤣🤣🤣

I had to go back! He got me!

@@mikemann1960 WHAT

@@mikemann1960 yea bro are you h i g h

That woman needs to be in the senate

@@mikemann1960 what the fuck did I just read?

@@mikemann1960 *A smirk glistens across Mikes's face* Now the world will know how smart I am.

Yes, he is such a Mitch!!!!

OMFG. I am using that!

Kevin Hart uses that in one of his shows actually.

Yeah, also, anybody who loses a game and then starts insinuating that other players may have cheated should henceforth be called a "cyber-ninja."
One player: Snake eyes again?! These dice must be loaded with, like, magnets or something!!!
Other player: (eye-roll) Whatever, cyber-ninja...

Mitch, please!!!

They should give it back to the indigenous tribe or nation it originally belonged to. I’m sure the Bruce family will non-hypocritically accept that’s the most just solution.

@@MasterShake9000 OH Racist one, that would be the master solution and I being Half Cherokee would be a much richer person tomorrow, but that aint going to happen.

@@MasterShake9000 Neah, it's no the same thing.

@@MasterShake9000 man stfu

+ Adjusted for inflation!!

"cannon" or "canon"? 😁

100% yes.

This "cannon" you speak of must use green powder to fire instead.

@@zakkvanish3668 basically SCP-1132-J.

@@psuedonym9999 I did not know that 😂

It's because if the next generation learns about the injustice, they might do something about it. That's why teaching about topics like this is being demonized and literally outlawed under the label of "Critical Race Theory" right now

I agree. Do you want to learn about system racism? Read the color of law

Interested in our full history? Get hold of any of the books by Frederick Lewis Allen.

A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn is a real eye-opener, too.

But wait didn’t you read it for a class? Doesn’t that mean that you WERE taught it?

Blue EYES matter

It really explains why there are now so many magnet programs for schools in low-income neighborhoods, trying to attract ANY additional funding.

@@emjay2045 nah, some black people have blue eyes. They don't matter.
Many white people have brown/green eyes. I have grey eyes.
It's still just size that matters. Having people in certain positions in government... In the police, as a landlord...
I wish it were just blue eyes, some contact lenses would have solved a lot for many (albeit still a wrong solution).

I'm sorry. I live in Texas, too and you actually expect the government to do the right thing? Has that actually EVER happened unless it made them money somehow. Most of them need to be put in jail. Like our last Governor who became a millionaire using his inside information on land deals. He should have been put in jail; instead he ran for president. Every time I vote I wonder why I even bother.

@@AlexFenrirGochad yah I was actually in a magnet program and this school was in a poor black neighborhood where a lot of my family lived. Now I know why they would want to attract white families to the school to get more funding.

Their graphics team is awesome, 1000% they don’t get enough credit

Agreed. As a small graphics artist myself, I greatly admire their work.

Wait that was a key!?!?

Nice catch, wow.

I would've never saw it except for a crack on my screen that rounded out the head

Relate. Thanks for speaking to this. Also have PTSD. 25 times in 15 years. It's not helpful

I'm always amused when people trot out this quote. Sure, it's a fun dunk on Americans, but leaning on _Winston Churchill_ as a source of moral authority is laughable.

I think The Daily Show with Trevor Noah did a piece on what happened to black farmers

@@OlOleander I was just thinking the same thing. Anyone not informed on the subject should look up just what Winston Churchill thought of India and its people.

@@OlOleander That is church!

@@OlOleander thank you

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That woman's comment made my day!!

Loved it 😂😂😂

I like Mrs. Rose Mason very much

Aboslute madlad and god damn hero

If you ask me, the primary function of fiction is to examine real world situations and issues through a lens of detachment from our real world prejudices.

Luckily he failed

While millions of Americans were loosing their homes and jobs. That's the anti-American GOP.

Same can't be said for Trump though lol

For context: It was after the passing of the Affordable Care Act that this quote was made. Learned this from his most recent autobiography that i read about five or seven years ago.

@America Project I was referring to McConnells most recent biography. I unfortunately cannot remember the year it came out but there is a section about the ACA and that particular quote.

Nylund 😁

Rose (Mason), Rosa (Parks), all great names 👌

That’s a great idea to get into cross stitching.

Luckily I know a few people who can.

This feels way too forced and cringey. Like I get it Karens suck. But is there not a better way to call them out in a way that makes sense or at least doesn't feel like some 80 year old asked her grandkids how to make fun of her friends.

exactly when government is helping white people en masse its ok they doing good job, but when its poc its socialism, reverse socialism it shows that white people see poc advancing as a zero sum game where their gains mean white people loss

I got cold chills reading this and imagining the maps.

@@aubreyalbanese4440 i got chills the first time I was doing research for a project in high school, and I looked at a map of areas most affected by a hurricane, and then a map of wealth in the region, and then a map of racial segregation, and they were the same map down to so many little cracks and bumps. And thats when I truly realized how little progress on racial equality this country has made. Despite the fact that we had a black president, and despite the fact that we had passed the civil right act in the 60's, which was something they had focused on so heavily in my education as a child.

It’s funny like someone else said in an earlier post, when you live it, it’s not surprising it’s expected. The historical and present lived experiences of Black Americans result in expected discrimination. Same land different expectations.

Education in action! That's a good professor!

Wouldn't surprise me

Mitch: We addressed it by passing bills.
Also Mitch: I am the grim reaper of bills

this is so well put and underrated. "We" did everything right, but "we" didn't do anything wrong.

You: Black people should be compensated for what happened to their ancestors. White people are accountable for what their ancestors did.
Also you:
The child of a murderer should not be held accountable for what his father or grandfather did.
Also you:
Well wait, it depends on which skin color the murderer and his victim had.
Also you:
I am not racist.

@@edmmitch you projected those things on me while I verbatim quoted what Moscow Mitch said.
If you still benefit from injustices your ancestors did and another group of people are still disadvantaged because of those things then you should pay reparations. If their actions didn’t have any effects on society right now then no one would’ve asked for reparations.
By the murderer and victim tangent I assume you mean the slave owners who were killed by their slaves. These killings happed in a time when owning slaves was illegal. Before that, a slave would’ve been tortured and killed for raising his hands on a slave owner, let alone killing him.

Mitch is has slave masters on both sides so... We can blame him.

Ohhh

@Cara Jada wtf lmao watchgirls18!?!?!?!

Lmlppn bbb

Love that clipped, replayed it, just that clip.

Yeah, I liked that too. She didn't shy away from saying it, but she made damn sure to point out that she was quoting an asshole, and she respected her friend.
That's the mature, civilized way to handle that word, I think. The way we're doing it today, where some people aren't allowed to say it under any circumstances, while other people are trying to reclaim it and make it cool...? I don't think it's working, and I think it may be doing more harm than good.

@@austenhead5303 it is. And even though she has her own issues, it is what Rowling was getting at with Voldemort. Not a great word and shouldn’t go around using it all the time but straight up banning people from it? That’s censorship and it’s own form of wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

@@austenhead5303
🤦🏿‍♂️ You were 🤏🏿 close.

Truly well done.

I would never notice until i read your comment, thanks for pointing it out. And i looked at that key and was reminded of this other video i saw where a locksmith would punch out the metal sections of a blank key to form the teeth to fit the tumbler, but now i can't unsee the image of a face

Wow, I didn't notice that! Which is funny because I kept looking at the spike at the tip of the key and wondering why the artist chose to make it so long haha

I totally missed it too. I’m into locksport so I was trying to make sense of the bitting and looking at the details. Guess I just couldn’t see the forest through the trees.

Damn I didn’t notice that

Exact that is why I have issues with some conservatives rhetoric on systemic racism and it been none existence magically

It’s literally the same thing.

U mean. History.
Literally yesterday is history. If your stuck in the thinking of yesterday. And in all the yeaterdays
Government is fucking evil as always no matter who in charge

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
-William Faulkner

Why isn't history? One thing doesn't have exclude the other. They are living now, and their situation is partly because of events and decisions in the past. These things aren't isolated from each other. There is a historical method called oral history, where "memories of people who are living" plays a role. The fact that it's history shouldn't make it less, rather the opposite (when it's done with transparency).

No way they don't have a small team of writers behind the show fact checking, finding references and writing the script. He might write the comedic parts and riffs at least since he is a comic, but there is no way he writes more than 20% of this even if we would be able to.

Sounds like you need to see a doctor.

@@aratosm if you’re not angry, you haven’t been paying attention.

Yea Mitch is a hateful turtle neck!

Imma sorta conservative, and I agree with you!

@@aratosm no, it sounds like he's been paying attention.

"We put it off long enough and did below the bare minimum until everyone involved died. Nothing more can be done"

Civil rights acts. 4 so far.. civil war was a war of secession. To the south, a fear of Lincoln... we just re spin it to some kind ethics. But it’s taught And both left and right, yeah, move on, forget the actual history. The elements of unfair wealth extend to everyone, John is skipping the natives who got this whole circus of ‘freedom’. John keeps using government defined ethnic backgrounds (color) which is part of the systemic prejudice, avoiding religion, culture

So if you own a piece of land, that it later turns out your great great grandpa bought with money he robbed from a bank in the 1850ies, you'd now have to give that piece of land to that bank? How would that be fair?

Especially when your supporters literally wave the flag of the side that fought for slavery in the civil war you're using as evidence that discrimination is over

@@Soff1859 wasn’t about fair in the first place. What if gramps murdered the people first? It’s really a what if as the truth is we as a nation we’re good with it and John is wrong about principles as he kind of bought into it immigrating here 😭

It must be pretty easy to "move on" when you can afford such snappy suits, campaign funds, to buy your way out of any care in the world, and a solid gold watch like that.

Yeah I robbed the bank. So what? Move on already. That was in the past!

I'M WALKING HERE

But really none of the people under a certain age (say 60 or so) were of voting age at the time any of this happened. Making the younger ones pay for this stuff is exactly the same as sending you the bill a damage your long dead grandfather caused 20 years before your birth. Noone would think that is appropriate either.
"Your grandpa totalled my grandpas car in the 60ies. Now you have to buy me a new car"

Evil little 🐢 man

It's easy to blame Mitch, but he's a mouthpiece for every Republican in his caucus. And at least under Obama, he was the de facto head of the Republican party. This problem is bigger than a turtle made of melted wax.

He did a good job of revealing the problematic disconnect that happens when people talk about reparations though. John was talking about repairing something that was broken, while Mitch was talking about punishing those who practiced slavery.

@@brettlovell8761
Exactly, Mitch isn't the cause of the problem, he's one of its many consequences.

@@chrisjohnson8976 I try and compare it to paying for a natural disaster or paying for firefighters. It's fixing not punishing.
Also, African Americans paid taxes and were denied the benefits of those taxes.