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BumRushDaShow

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14. Me too
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 01:08 PM
Mar 2018

Since the early '60s and my parents kept some of the old classics like the 1969 moon landing issue, etc.

The problem was that whenever POC pointed out the type of stuff that "media" outlets like this or film/tv did when it came to visuals of certain cultures, we were told to suck it up and that was "reality". It piled onto the misery of racism and boosted the idea of white supremacy and what you see today in Drumpf and his supporters. Their "balance" was no balance at all. Europeans were shown in all their unique glory and Africans were show either along with animals or as you heard Drumpf say - in "shithole countries" living in "huts".

And this was despite the fact that the damn photo-journalists flew into a modern airports in modern African cities yet purposely ignored those cities to seek out the most wretched that they could find.

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