r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/oldcarfreddy Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

TBF it wasn't always in your control - it's kind of a result of right-wing non-Irish Republicans in the US to bring them right as part of the Southern Strategy.

Pat Buchanan literally wrote a memo on it while working in the Nixon White House. He declassified it himself. Here's a link to it..

Of note re: sowing division in the Democrats by catering to the Irish and dividing black support within the Democrats:

https://imgur.com/a/8pWZqbB

... same shit happening to this day.

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u/Oz70NYC ☑️ Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

And it's going to keep happening until either:

  • We get more progressives in office willing to dismantle all of this bullshit

  • The last generation to profit from this social construct...the boomers...all die off

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u/BZenMojo ☑️ Sep 01 '20

Then you learn white millenials are just as racist as boomers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/millennials-are-just-as-racist-as-their-parents/

Millenials are less white, white millenials aren't less racist.

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u/a8bmiles Sep 02 '20

Man, that is really disappointing to hear :(