The stupidity just burns so much.

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    15 days ago

    My former best friend (for a lot of reasons, is former) was a black man from Florida who confidently would say how all of Africa’s problems are due to their own incompetence and that people who speak African American Vernacular English are lazy. Dude also celebrated Biden beating Bernie in the previous primary.

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      At the risk of sounding insensitive, I’d argue that the average Black American is generationally so far removed from the African continent that their knowledge of post-colonial african politics is about the same as the average white dude. They’re not granted any special insight on account of their anscestors came from there.

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        Sadly this person has been around the world as lot as his hobby for 20+ years was to travel internationally once a month and domestically twice. He had an agreement with the hotel he worked at that he’d work any shift they wanted as long as they gave him any time off when he wanted it. Sadly, even being exposed to culture doesn’t necessarily make you cultured.