john oliver ("last week tonight") "kill the confederate flag"

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6. Got that. Which only leaves it on a few million pickups, walls, etc, and in millions of hearts.

Until it is taken down in those hearts, though, all the rest of that is just pretending.

Meanwhile there are hungry kids and other real problems to solve. I agree it has no place on a government building, but you might want to consider that there are still several million people in prisons we called "reservations" where our ancestors threw what was left after our murderous rampage and stealing of their property and towns. Here's that flag which some also think should not be on government buildings:



Don't get me wrong. I'm all for it coming down - I just have no expectations that anything is going to change, still gonna be a racist country. If one thinks this is a great use of their time, they should go for it. They will find lots of friends to play along with, because people are very poor in realizing what is really threatening them. They still think that snakes and monsters are their worst enemy, not bank$ter/donors. Big mistake.

The effects of that flag coming down will be a massive bunch of self-congratulatory back patting, but a year later there won't be less people in poverty, more black folks with jobs and owning property.

That's that saddest part.