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Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Said One of the Most Racist Things You’ll Ever Hear

Marjorie Taylor Greene has a premise with which she starts. Okay? Black people are sorry and lazy ass people, got it?

But, Marjorie is no racist, not in the least, because she knows white people that are just as sorry and lazy, some even more, than… black people. Again, she is no racist, say it again, Marj. Soime white people are even worse.

The order matters.

Because in the clip below, Marjorie makes it clear that she knows of many sorry and lazy white people who are “probably worse than many black people she knows.”

I have made some similar comments: “I know some sorry-ass lazy people. Sometimes, I even fit that description, sometimes not. But I definitely know some sorry-ass lazy people.” It is a very similar comment, conveying something entirely different. I don’t divide the world’s people as black and white, at least not when it comes to personal generalizations. I also know some of the hardest working, most earnest, well-spoken, and generous people on the face of the earth. I don’t need to add “black people.” Because people are people.

It’s all in the division, or non-division, as the case may be:

Please, please, please, make it stop!!!! We already have Kari Lake sitting and glaring throughout Lift Every Voice was once called the “Negro National Anthem,” written by James Weldon Johnson to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday.

And now Marjorie says that she’s not a racist because she knows white people that are more sorry and lazy than black people.

Fortunately, Marjorie got some serious feedback:

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