Obama and his wife were the smartest animals portrayed in the entire video, including smarter than all the white people animals portrayed, as members of the apes.
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Thankfully they are <40% of US voters now. Yes, that's a depressingly large number but having a ~40% core group of MAGA and everyone else being thoroughly disgusted by Trump means the bottom is falling out for Republicans.
Recent Texas Senate election (SD-9) saw Democrats winning by 17 points (Republicans won the district in 2022 by 60-40). Abolishing ICE is now the more popular opinion (46 to 43 in some poll).
We'll see how much damage the beast will inflict before it's finally slain.
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You can't make this up.
- Jeffrey EpsteinSo yes I would say people like Ruth Ginsburg who didn't believe in the 15th amendment allowing equal voting rights with regards to race, are racists.
This was an indigenous people treaty case, and when mothballed says "certain public elections" they mean "a single election for a position in Hawaii which was established in negotiations with indigenous Hawaiians in the 1970s. Not, however, a treaty obligation.
I don't know that I agree with RGB here, but I don't find that to be a racist opinion.
This is part of the reason why the nominally anti-racist zealots are losing the battle. We want to live in a world where it's actually considered racist to exclude races in a public election, rather than one where it's not racist to exclude races from a public election but somehow more racist to post a multi-racial video depicting whites and others as non-human animals.
I was not asked to contemplate every example of racism.
The ID bit is particularly amusing to look at. In my state you need an ID to vote but not to conceal carry a gun. In Illinois it's the exact opposite, with a lot of handwaving why you need an ID to prove you are a 'person' but not a 'citizen'. Obviously the states and government are totally inconsistent on the issue of ID to exercise rights.
Mail voting might be more prejudicial to the poor with irregular addresses, since their only option is to vote in person whereas those better off with regular mail access can vote via mail or in person.
Overall I would take a stab that both mail voting and ID requirements yield a net slight prejudice against some minorities. Gerrymandering is just dog-shit all around.
I mean quite clearly you were responding literally to a commenter's disbelief that you think the video didn't intentionally use racist imagery.
So you could have not chosen any example. Or one that is relevant to the current state of the world, even if it hides behind a mask of legitimacy.
Anyway, I imagine if RBG were here she'd probably have something to say on response but I can't think of anything that is more of a non-controversy.