What did that nigger say?


BNormal, Illinois
March 20, 2020

Now then, the only way we’re going to make any progress is to talk to each other and try to understand each other. I was just watching a movie tonight called The Best of Enemies, a true story based on some KKK types versus a group of black people who are trying to get the same basic rights as the white people. This is back in 1971 in Durham, N.C. Basically it’s one particular Klansman versus one particular black woman, with each one representing his or her group. Each person is very focused and has no intentions of caving in or compromising to the other. In all this mess and mutual hatred, a black arbitrator calls the committed racist his brother because the racist makes one correct point in a heated discussion. It doesn’t matter what the racist says, it’s just important that he’s correct about one thing. The black guy points out that the white guy is objectively correct and that as far as that one thing goes, they are in agreement and thus they are brothers.

Here the racist turns to another racist and says, “Did that nigger just call me brother?” Then the black woman he’s been arguing with says to the arbitrator, “Did you just say that cracker is your brother? What kind of nigger are you?” It’s laughable, but at that point where the white man and the black woman agree on something, why that’s the starting point for real enlightenment and mutual respect, and that’s where the left can come together with the right and vice versa – because can’t we at least admit that we’ll all human beings?

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