Jemele Hill
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1,138 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 6 Sep
Jemele Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It didn't just start now.
And it was even before the whole birther movement that he created against former President Barack Obama.
It was like Central Park Five, housing discrimination, all of that.
He has a long history of that.
And it's truly, you know, sort of disappointing that, you know, people have taken these pictures of like or just they try to use these photos that he took with Jesse Jackson and like all this other stuff to try to prove that, you know, he isn't.
I often refer to that as something I call the Sal's pizzeria theory.
And if you've seen Do the Right Thing, you remember there was a scene where John Turturro, Spike Lee, they're in the pizzeria and they're
You know, John Turturro had just picked up the phone and called.
And after, you know, upset about somebody ordering a pizza, he called them the N-word, like just blatant.
And Spike had to ask him, you know, he's like, hey, how is it that you forever calling us that?
But on the wall in this pizzeria, you got, you know, all these pictures of black folks like Magic Johnson and, you know, Prince is your favorite artist and all this other stuff, like all these black people that you like.
From an entertainment standpoint, how are you doing that?
And you, deep down, you despise us.
And he's like, oh, they're Black, but they're not Black Black.
How somebody treats famous Black people doesn't mean shit to me.
Does not mean anything.
Because everybody likes to be around famous people.
whether they're black, doesn't matter, right?
So like, and we know that Donald Trump loves to be in the company of celebrities and he loves to be adored by celebrities.
And so I really wish people would stop using that as some kind of defense that that proves that this man is not a racist.
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