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And someone stole your shoes? Hey, what the fuck is going on in America, huh?

In 1996, in a state referendum, Californians voted 55% to embed a colorblind amendment in their state constitution:
«The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.»
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The Democratic legislature, however, wants to be rid of this amendment as it outlaws the kind of racial and ethnic discrimination in which Sacramento wishes to engage.
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If this passes...<...> — there will be racial and ethnic discrimination, as in the days of segregation. Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims will be reversed. And that is the meaning of the BLM revolution, which might be encapsulated: «It’s our turn now!»

You know, there's one thing about Americans. We're not cut out to be occupiers. We're new at it. We're not very good at it.

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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Tad Lawson

Americans

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This conjunction of an immense military establishment and arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every government office. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

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JFK

Dwight David Eisenhower

War

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An article in "Time" magazine stated "the ordinary unreasoning jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing indicates it."

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The Untold History of the United States

This racism prevailed when president roosevelt in February 1942 signed an executive order calling for the evacuation of over 110,000 Japanese and japanese-americans from california oregon and washington on the grounds that they "represented a threat to national security." 70% of them were american citizens.

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The Untold History of the United States

Right, well, the president of the United States is fucking lying!

The only way to secure the peace, Senator, as I'm sure you know, is to be prepared. See, we can parachute these robot guys behind enemy lines. They hide out till the first strike blows over, then each one of these little boogers carries a 25-megaton bomb right up the middle of main street Moscow, like the mailman bringing bad news. We call it "Operation Got You Last."

I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over inb their graves.

And the Russians are dying. It's the best money we've ever spent.

Regarding international affairs, Putin pursues polices that he believes serve Russia’s national interests, with little attention paid to American interests.

America you don're really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our
auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.
Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

...we cannot preclude the possibility that we are living through a political disruption that will in time bear comparison with the collapse of Communism a generation ago.

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Francis Fukuyama

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«Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!» — cries she
With silent lips. «Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!»

I don't rap for dead presidents,
I'd rather see the President dead,