Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Michelle Obama: terrorist satire 'knocked me back'" video.

  1. Paul Wood You must be watching different news to the rest of the world. Poorer neighbourhoods, greater rates of incarceration, greater rates of killing by police, poorer schools, lower pay, far less career opportunity. Funny definition of gods in my book.
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  2. Paul Wood Black people are poor across the globe because of white colonialism (amongst other factors). And black people have a PERFECT right to blame whites in America for their situation, from which they have yet to recover. Just as they can THANK them for their athleticism. The harm of two and a half centuries of slavery, and a further hundred of state sanctioned prejudice are not eliminated in 50 years! Blacks are literally born with a massive millstone around their necks that drags them back. So yes, black people in America DO blame whites, because it's whites who are DIRECTLY responsible for their situation. Even now. The one time in America when blacks collectively raised an entire community out of poverty, (black wall street), and what happened? Whites got jealous, burned the entire town down, and killed hundreds of the residents, and worked to ensure that the community could NEVER rebuild. Whites have HUGE amounts of blood on their hands, and then simply to say, "Well blacks make themselves poor" is such a simplistic analysis of the situation. Poverty begets poverty, and poverty begets criminality. Fact.
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  3. Paul Wood There are definitely exacerbating factors, such as tribalism, and the delay of progression to agriculture, but dismissing colonialism past and the ongoing exploitation of the African continent, seems disingenuous at best. But please feel free to add any details that you feel are also contributory.
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