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A short video on how MAGA views black folks. (Original Post) Duncanpup Nov 2025 OP
Free land?! Where was I when this happened? madashelltoo Nov 2025 #1
40 acres and a mule... lame54 Nov 2025 #2
A reference to white benefits BaronChocula Nov 2025 #10
I have known people who talked like that. Americanme Nov 2025 #3
excellent! Right on the mark rurallib Nov 2025 #4
Who are "they" Mossfern Nov 2025 #5
I agree with you. Duncanpup Nov 2025 #6
Wealthy white bigots are the ones always telling the poor whites that somehow the blacks are to blame for their failure. patphil Nov 2025 #9
So true! Mossfern Nov 2025 #11
THIS evolves Nov 2025 #15
This was poorly written relayerbob Nov 2025 #13
LBJ pointed this out decades ago Dave in VA Nov 2025 #7
Here is a good explanation why these assholes support trump LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2025 #8
Nailed it malaise Nov 2025 #12
free land, who , what ? where ? when?!?!?!?! AllaN01Bear Nov 2025 #14
Homestead Act evolves Nov 2025 #16

madashelltoo

(1,829 posts)
1. Free land?! Where was I when this happened?
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 12:59 PM
Nov 2025

I must have been . . . naw, I can’t even imagine. How many calories are there in bulls..t?

BaronChocula

(4,555 posts)
10. A reference to white benefits
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 03:18 PM
Nov 2025

which includes the the Homestead Act of 1862 which gave free land to whites.

MLK explains.

Americanme

(497 posts)
3. I have known people who talked like that.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 01:33 PM
Nov 2025

Always talking about how hard they worked to get what they have, always assuming "the other" got it without working hard for it. Always playing the victim. Pathetic.

Mossfern

(4,716 posts)
5. Who are "they"
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 02:18 PM
Nov 2025

or "them" that this refers to?

Why do they show only poor white folks and not the wealthy white bigots?
It seems to me that some history needs to be gone over here.

Not all poor white people are bigots.

patphil

(9,068 posts)
9. Wealthy white bigots are the ones always telling the poor whites that somehow the blacks are to blame for their failure.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 03:17 PM
Nov 2025

Creating an "us versus them" narrative is how they keep everyone else from realizing who is really screwing them.

This is not just true of wealthy white people, but wealthy people in general. They have lead us to believe that the success of someone who is trying to build a better life for themselves and their families causes failure for others.
It's a race war, it's a culture war...a manufactured conflict that allows the rich to keep getting bigger and bigger pieces of the economic pie.
There is absolutely no way that 3 people, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg should have nearly 1 trillion in wealth between them. And yet they do.
And 1,135 US billionaires have about 5.7 trillion in combined wealth,.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/04/america-billionaires-trillion-zuckerberg-bezos-musk-philanthropy-charitable-giving-tech-ai-business-personal-finance/

evolves

(5,837 posts)
15. THIS
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 03:49 PM
Nov 2025

The 0.1% "powers that be" (wealthy white men, typically) have traditionally sown division between everyone with minimal resources, pitting poor black, brown, and white people against each other using race as the dividing line. It is pure evil, but an unfortunately brilliant strategy, because if those three groups ever got together en masse, they could run the 0.1% into the ground.

Dave in VA

(2,285 posts)
7. LBJ pointed this out decades ago
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 02:55 PM
Nov 2025

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

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