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I timestamped an important part of an important conversation. Andrew Sullivan gets beaten like a DRUM on this issue. He represents the affluent white male who doesn't want to deal with racism as a systemic issue, because he directly benefits from it.
"When the New Deal was passed, Black people were explicitly not allowed to have loans. When the Homestead Act allowed white people to get an enormous wealth of land, and be able to farm it, Black people did not have access to that. When Slaves were freed, when Social Security came... the G.I. Bill. You're a bright guy. When you say this doesn't exist, I'm like, what the **** are you talking about?' - Jon Stewart
'First off, the false analogy is this: equating 250 years of slavery, and then 100 years of Jim Crow with the immigrant experiences of WHITE Europeans from 1870 to 1924? I grew up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia, working class. But you know how these folks made it? They got jobs in government, civil jobs, cops, union jobs. These were all OFF-LIMITS if you were Brown or Black, forget it.' - Chip Gallagher
'Here's the real deal about everything, is that whites came to believe that everything good -- the jobs, the land, the suburbs -- it was theirs. And when blacks tried to encroach, that's when you have the push back. That's when you have riots about bussing. That's when you have terrorism.' - Chip Gallagher
'Andrew, you're not living on the same ****ing planet we are.' - Jon Stewart
'This is why we don't talk to white men. If white men were going to do something about racism, you had 400 years.' - Lisa Bond
'All of us white people do this. I don't care if we say we're Abolitionists. I don't care if we say we're Progressive. I don't care if e are literally members of the KKK. Every single white person upholds these systems and structures of white supremacy, and we have got to talk about it.' - Lisa Bond
"When the New Deal was passed, Black people were explicitly not allowed to have loans. When the Homestead Act allowed white people to get an enormous wealth of land, and be able to farm it, Black people did not have access to that. When Slaves were freed, when Social Security came... the G.I. Bill. You're a bright guy. When you say this doesn't exist, I'm like, what the **** are you talking about?' - Jon Stewart
'First off, the false analogy is this: equating 250 years of slavery, and then 100 years of Jim Crow with the immigrant experiences of WHITE Europeans from 1870 to 1924? I grew up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia, working class. But you know how these folks made it? They got jobs in government, civil jobs, cops, union jobs. These were all OFF-LIMITS if you were Brown or Black, forget it.' - Chip Gallagher
'Here's the real deal about everything, is that whites came to believe that everything good -- the jobs, the land, the suburbs -- it was theirs. And when blacks tried to encroach, that's when you have the push back. That's when you have riots about bussing. That's when you have terrorism.' - Chip Gallagher
'Andrew, you're not living on the same ****ing planet we are.' - Jon Stewart
'This is why we don't talk to white men. If white men were going to do something about racism, you had 400 years.' - Lisa Bond
'All of us white people do this. I don't care if we say we're Abolitionists. I don't care if we say we're Progressive. I don't care if e are literally members of the KKK. Every single white person upholds these systems and structures of white supremacy, and we have got to talk about it.' - Lisa Bond
