• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    While I can understand his syntax, I fail to understand the substance of that sentence.

    Now I’m curious how wealth can be utilized in a manner that pertains to African-Americans. Funding sickle cell anemia research?

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      4 months ago

      I think he is basically saying “I think that black people are bad. I also think that some billionaires are bad, but it’s #notallbillionaires . The innate badness that black people have and the bad billionaires have are the same, so I am going to call the bad billionaires black”. In other words, racist bullshit

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      4 months ago

      N*gga rich is a term used by racists, and co-opted by rappers, to mean getting a small fortune and spending it on flashy ostentatious things.