Bret Easton Ellis
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And then there's 10 people on the city council, but only three of them are Persian or only three of them.
And I'm like, do we have to have an exact balance?
Can't we just elect intelligent people that we think will make good decisions for the citizens and โ
Did it have to look like me?
And by the way, is that ever work?
We're like, what, what I'm saying is every, every guy Don King ripped off was black.
So what good is it?
Like, and isn't it a form of racism to go?
Well, that guy looks like me.
He looks like me.
So he's never going to rip me off, but then that guy doesn't look like me.
So he,
What does that mean?
I like that as well.
Yeah.
I think a lot of people don't want to move on and I think a lot โ it's weird but I have this โ I only deal with psychology.
Like I don't have any facts or figures.
I just sort of deal with what motivates people and it will be interesting because โ here's an interesting prediction.
I've always said that after we elected President Obama, I feel like a lot of the people that were in certain positions in the media and beyond doubled down on their efforts to create the racist society that I don't believe we really lived in before he was elected.
That's why he got elected.