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The British museum stole a lot of items from around the world and put them in British museums.

They destroyed the Benin Kingdom and stole a lot of art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrdunRXfbw

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Britain causes burning and destruction around the world but they are afraid of terrorism in their own country. Lowkey has a song about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU

For example, Britain making borders in other countries have caused ethnic clashes and “lit the match” and now Britain is afraid of the “flame” that resulted (i.e. terrorism).

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History is more like His-Story. The white man tells the story and he tells it how he likes it. He writes out many things that Africans did in the past like colonize Spain for 780 years.

There were also Africans fighting in World War II for Britain.

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Jews and African-Americans both have a horrific history of oppression. The horrific Nazi persecution of Jews, culminating in the Final Solution, is well known

Meanwhile, American blacks dealt with the horrors of slavery and the Middle Passage, horrors that mostly just intensified after the founding of the American republic.

Under a certain logic (one that ignores the monumental strides towards racial equality made since the 1960s), blacks saluting the flag represent the same sort of sad delusion as hypothetical Jews saluting a Nazi banner.

As for blacks who wave Confederate flags with pride, Ras presumably has no words.

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Sampled from Lupe Fiasco’s “Words I never Said.”

Rush Limbaugh:

Glenn Beck:

It suggests that Obama is no different than the racist conservatives who oppose him. This is mostly because of his poor handling of the US' role in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, by heavily favoring Israel and overlooking their aggressive attacks on the Gaza Strip.

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Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez are left wing (socialist) Presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela respectively. Evo was the first indigenous President of Bolivia’s history.

The USA wants both of those men dead because they are against capitalism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KkK50CQ2w0

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When Barack Obama first got elected, his first duty was closing Guantanamo Bay. He promised this.. However, this did not happen in the slightest, it is still open to this day as the USA struggle to find places to put their ‘suspected’ terrorists who apparently have no right to a fair trial.

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Tim Wise is a lecturer who studies white privilege in America. This is from Tim Wise’s speech about the N-word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnmmDiQSdA

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Naira is the Nigerian currency.

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Nigerians are some of the most confident Africans. Nigerians have great pride for their country. Put your lighters up.

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