D.L. Hughley
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I feel so bad for him because remember when he was running for president, Tim Scott had to pretend to like chicks in order to run for president.
So that was a very sad thing.
He pretended to like girls.
But the thing that is so funny, and Charles alluded to this, and I think you have too, Fred, but America is really like black people invented writing, but white people invented the eraser.
And
The one thing that does give me hope is that black people voted, 92% of black women voted away, 85% of black men, but a large percentage of educated white people voted the same way.
So everybody recognized the inherent danger that he represented.
So how did a dude that went to Harvard see the same thing as a young black man who lived on Harvard?
I think there is...
I think that he represents something that I'm not even sure a lot of white people have ever seen before.
Everything this country has built, the idea of itself, is at odds with the reality of it.
And I don't think a lot of Americans understood.
You have these deeply entrenched people, obviously, but there are people who really didn't feel
that this could ever happen to this country.
And that's why you see, like, we were never protected by laws.
It was norms and kindnesses that kept us here.
There was nothing to prevent him from doing it.
But there were a whole faction of people that knew that these loopholes existed, that knew these crevices existed, and were going to exploit them.
And that's what we're seeing now.
But I think there are a lot of people who are not sure that this is the America that they can tolerate.