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I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom w/ Norman Finkelstein

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael

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The Price to Bring Black People Into the Ruling Class

The white ruling class realized bringing in a few black faces is a very small price to pay if it helps stabilize the system. And so of course they brought in all these phenotypical black people into the ruling class. So we made Jim Clyburn, the third most powerful person in the House of Representatives and then we wheeled him out when we needed to stop Bernie in South Carolina. The exit polls showed that Jim Clyburn's endorsement of Biden affected 60% of the voters, the black voters in the primary.

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