Is the MAGA Slogan Racist? My Response to Actor Bryan Cranston (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_516)

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is Gatsad I was just going through my Twitter feed and I saw a
0:08.1	interview that the actor Brian Cranston was having on CNN and so I will play that clip and then I will read for you
0:20.6	my reply to Brian Cranston which I posted on Twitter a few minutes ago.
0:26.8	Cheers.
0:27.8	How did we get to a point where we treated other human beings as slaves and we're okay with that.
0:37.0	When I see the Make America Great Again, my comment is, do you, do you, do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?
0:50.0	And most people, a lot of people, go, how could that be racist? Make America great again?
0:56.0	I said, so just ask yourself from an African American experience.
1:01.0	When was it ever great in America for the African American? When was it great? So if
1:10.0	you're making it great again, it's not including them.
1:14.5	So it's to teach us in the woke world
1:18.6	to open up and accept the possibilities
1:21.8	that our privilege has created blind spots for us.
1:26.1	And maybe I haven't seen what is really happening yet in all my years.
1:32.0	So here is my reply to Brian Cranston. I'm going to read it for you.
1:39.6	This is precisely what I refer to as progressive self-flagellation.
1:44.0	Yes, slavery is an indelible part of American history, Brian Cranston,
1:49.0	but it would be difficult to find a society today that is less racist than the United States.
1:55.9	Regrettably, slavery has been the norm throughout human history,
2:00.1	so it was nothing unique to the American experience.
2:03.0	The United States has atoned for its part in endless ways.
2:08.0	I'm a descendant of slaves by virtue of being Jewish.
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