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A short video on how MAGA views black folks. (Original Post) Duncanpup Nov 30 OP
Free land?! Where was I when this happened? madashelltoo Nov 30 #1
40 acres and a mule... lame54 Nov 30 #2
A reference to white benefits BaronChocula Nov 30 #10
I have known people who talked like that. Americanme Nov 30 #3
excellent! Right on the mark rurallib Nov 30 #4
Who are "they" Mossfern Nov 30 #5
I agree with you. Duncanpup Nov 30 #6
Wealthy white bigots are the ones always telling the poor whites that somehow the blacks are to blame for their failure. patphil Nov 30 #9
So true! Mossfern Nov 30 #11
THIS evolves Nov 30 #15
This was poorly written relayerbob Nov 30 #13
LBJ pointed this out decades ago Dave in VA Nov 30 #7
Here is a good explanation why these assholes support trump LetMyPeopleVote Nov 30 #8
Nailed it malaise Nov 30 #12
free land, who , what ? where ? when?!?!?!?! AllaN01Bear Nov 30 #14
Homestead Act evolves Nov 30 #16

madashelltoo

(1,821 posts)
1. Free land?! Where was I when this happened?
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:59 AM
Nov 30

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

BaronChocula

(3,889 posts)
10. A reference to white benefits
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 02:18 PM
Nov 30

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

MLK explains.

Americanme

(339 posts)
3. I have known people who talked like that.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 12:33 PM
Nov 30

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

(4,571 posts)
5. Who are "they"
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 01:18 PM
Nov 30

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

(8,597 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, 02:17 PM
Nov 30

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

(5,715 posts)
15. THIS
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 02:49 PM
Nov 30

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

(2,248 posts)
7. LBJ pointed this out decades ago
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 01:55 PM
Nov 30

“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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