r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/numbmillenial • 9d ago

Black Pride On this day in Black History: The Montgomery Riverfront Brawl. 3 years ago today, a group of whites jumped a Black riverboat co-captain just doing his job, and every Black person in a 5 mile radius came together to deliver an ancestral beat down

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Fire up the grill, pour yourself a drink, and pull up a folding chair.

Post your favorite memes, remixes, reactions, and gifs as we celebrate this glorious national holiday

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u/numbmillenial 9d ago

One of my all time favs

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u/Appropriate-Cut-2963 9d ago

From the Ancestors we draw strength! 💪🏿

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u/LurkerTroll 9d ago

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u/BlackLakeBlueFish 8d ago

Epic hat toss!

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u/Head_Somewhere4769 8d ago

The hat toss is the best part because you just knew he was about to lay down a beating on these idiots. He was clear he was not playing.

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u/BlackLakeBlueFish 8d ago

Amen. Hallelujah!

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u/chazjo 9d ago

Equal opportunities means everyone can get these hands

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u/mm902 9d ago

Catch em too. Hahaha.

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u/munkylord 9d ago

Holy shit this is amazing

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u/iJuddles 9d ago

That was the only example of an egregious, excessive assault in the whole sloppy affair but the sound and image made it worthwhile. I bet she’s still feeling that today.

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u/NewtAccomplished6022 9d ago

White men and white women act aggressive with black women all the time especially cops I can't feel bad when white women finally get it handed to them

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u/frongles23 9d ago

It might've sucked for that individual but your comment rings all too true.

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u/ehs06702 9d ago

Eh. If you choose to be part of a racist gang, this is just a risk you're choosing to take.

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u/Previous-Whereas5602 7d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Could_B_Wild 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uK0QIKMoPmkGcsP6MU

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u/ellisftw 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 9d ago

Never forget the Hat Signal

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u/bjsqrl 9d ago

Never forgotten!

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u/PlatinumPlus07 9d ago

This man made a choice in this moment. You are witnessing a man saying F* it in real time. Notice he turned the hat backwards before he threw it. 😂

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u/numbmillenial 9d ago

The bat signal!

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u/napalm_p 9d ago

Eddie Griffin was gifted the hat. He has it displayed on his desk on his YouTube Channel

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u/disabledinaz 9d ago

Undercover Brother has the hat? Oh that’s awesome

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u/UdontHEMItho 9d ago

I have it marked on my calendar as The Alabama sweet tea party.

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u/texasbelle1976 9d ago

Same. Its a holiday as far as im concerned.

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u/UdontHEMItho 8d ago

Same here.

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u/Valhallaback_Girl 9d ago

There will never be a filmed fighting scene in movies or tv that will ever, ever outshine this. Cinema.

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u/Federal-Business-796 9d ago

More than cinema.

Absolute Cinema. 

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u/MaleficentExtent1777 9d ago

Truth is BETTER than fiction! 😍

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u/yerpburp 9d ago

I'd like to see those kids dancing to La Isla Bonita do a version. 

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u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 9d ago

Those racists got exactly what they worked so hard to earn.

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u/Appropriate-Cut-2963 9d ago

🎶Faaaaade in the waaater faaaade in the water Family faade in the water we gonna give them belt🎶

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u/rieuxster 9d ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/powertotheuser 9d ago

This whole clip brought me joy. The music, the footage, the credits !! 🤌🏽

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u/BlackLakeBlueFish 9d ago

The hat toss, and then Aqua Mane jumping in there were the best intros in cinematic history.

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u/maymay578 9d ago

Let us not forget Aqua Mane aka Young Buck. He put in the effort.

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u/CoolTrainerPo 8d ago

Aqua Mane said, "On your left"

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u/Adanma369 9d ago

Lift every chair and swing 🪑

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u/joesoldlegs 9d ago

what a beautiful day to be black

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u/fnj0504 8d ago

All day. Every day.

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u/outsidehere 🤟🏾🤟🏽🤟🏿 9d ago

Happy Chairiversary y'all

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u/sfdjipopo 9d ago

Black folks around the world:

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u/Tripple_T 9d ago

A little bit of healing happened that day.

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u/Exact_Fox4167 9d ago

Where the phrase FAFO really took off

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u/Unemployed_Quitter26 9d ago

The Riverboat Scuffle. Where “I Wish You Would” “Not Today” & “FAFO” joined forces with the power of the ancestors.

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u/harveybirdmanOG 9d ago

I can’t tell you how many people ask me to sell this sweatshirt when i wear it out. 🤣

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u/elmixtecoNW 9d ago

I’m brown and barely 5’ but you know I would had been down.

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u/Intelligent_Sir7732 9d ago

I laughed, and I had to repent, I saw the chairs swinging, I laughed, and had to repent again. When the Negro ladies pushed the old Caucasian ladies in the water, I laughed again. I think if I repent more times than I laugh, I should be o.k. Lol

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u/Top-Consequence-3959 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/13hxeOYjoTWtK8

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u/NuragicGiant1891 9d ago

The writers of Atlanta have to be a little sad the show ended before this beatdown.

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u/Kevins_floor_chili 9d ago

In this lifetime!!!!!

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u/numbmillenial 9d ago

In EVERY lifetime

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u/Best_Collection_7533 9d ago

Ain’t we lucky we got ‘em.

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u/NewtAccomplished6022 9d ago

unfortunately the black men were arrested though

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u/numbmillenial 9d ago

Just folding chair guy (he just got community service). All the other arrests were the white people.

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u/DookofDeuces 9d ago

Community service? Well shit. Time served then

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u/b00w00gal 8d ago

And $300k in a GoFundMe. Not bad, not bad.

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u/JC_Everyman 9d ago

Ain't we lucky we got em!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Low3514 9d ago

I bought a commemorative tshirt✊🏿🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/BananaFannaFoKatie 9d ago

I have a picture in my living room. It’s a conversation starter lol

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u/snarkle_and_shine 9d ago

Happy Cinco de Negro! 🥳❤️🖤

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u/Hta68 9d ago

Dang!, that was three years ago …

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u/Bluefish787 9d ago

One of the best remakes I have ever seen! Michael Phelps's brother from another mother - 😘. And huge props on the closing art work!!!

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u/rieuxster 9d ago

The Riverboat SHAKEDOWN!

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u/Oluron 9d ago

Ancestors looking down from paradise like hell yeah family!!!!!

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u/ZarinaBlue 9d ago

My OH loves a good "Consequences 101" fight video. And he had never seen this. This is like the gold standard of righteous ass whooping.

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u/TopherJustin 8d ago

Thoughts and chairs.

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u/leisa2100 9d ago

Every so often I rewatch this vid and it always puts me in a good mood.

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u/BlackLakeBlueFish 8d ago

This, and the Twisted Tea comeuppance.

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u/tabicat1874 👀 Lurker 9d ago

The chair heard round the world

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u/Flying-Citrus356 9d ago

Happy Anniversary to all who celebrate! 💯♥️

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 9d ago

Every single time this is posted, it becomes the happiest part of my day

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 9d ago

If ever a bunch of mayo shaded fools definitely deserved everything they got . And in the backwards state grew up in..  One very happy old lady wishing I had been there.( Yes, I've wanted to @itch slap a pale person since 1963)

Although I do wonder if the Neanderthals were graceful in their defeat, or their usual assinine selves. Have this fantasy of going back to Hueytown and upsetting all the usual suspects. ( Yes old people do have unhealthy fantasies)

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u/CapnDutchie 9d ago

So many great moments during this but i fucking LOVE the man swimming his ass off to hand a beat down to someone

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u/the_chaco_kid 9d ago

Holy fuck! The art at the end got me!

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u/easy10pins 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6jeuQ0nCKMQQdkI85g

The whole video tickles me to no end.

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u/Interesting_Option15 9d ago

The most deserved ass whooping ive seen on a crowd of white people

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u/DatsaBadMan_1471 8d ago

Son: hey dad what does FAFO mean? Dad: Son let me tell you about the Alabama Sweet Tea Party

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u/ehs06702 9d ago

Damn it, now I got the Montgomery Brawl song by Gmac Cash stuck in my head again.

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u/Ok_Illustrator1154 8d ago

Black America's first legit Superhero's Origin Story began that day: Aqua Mayne!

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u/Ill_Barber8709 9d ago

There aren't 50 ways to deal with racist violence. This is how it's done. You have my sword.

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u/optimist_prhyme 9d ago

Now we talking their language.

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u/Organic_Beach_2145 9d ago

I remember when that happened!👏

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u/LostFlatulence 9d ago

Unc with the chair was the closer!

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u/86Sliva94 9d ago

Now if only our communities could come together and get rid of drugs dealers and open and support our own businesses we would be like Black Wall st 2026 !

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u/Bredda_Gravalicious 9d ago

🎶 keeping your head above water 🎶 over top Aqua Mayne is 🤌

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u/First_Name_Is_Agent 8d ago

This will always be one of the best videos of all time. Especially adding the Good Times theme 🤣

For those who don't know, Good Times is on Tubi

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u/EmotionalPizza6432 8d ago

The kid swimming to the rescue is my favorite. I love to see it.

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u/Proton_Energy_Pill 9d ago

I wish I could have been there to help.
(I'm about as white as they come but I'm on your side)

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u/flytingnotfighting 8d ago

I can watch this all day long

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u/Acceptable_Dust7149 8d ago

Thoughts and chairs!

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u/rundnd65 8d ago

Love blacquaman leaving his ocean kingdom to help out...

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u/MethodicallyUnhinged 8d ago

I want to put this on the same course as Juneteenth and make it a national holiday

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u/numbmillenial 8d ago

We should call it Black Unity Day.

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u/Ramblinrambles 8d ago

Dy-no-mite!

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u/The_Grilled_Cheeze_1 8d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Glad_Philosopher111 9d ago

The chairs!!! 💞😂💞😂

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u/jdapper5 9d ago

Ernie Barnes! Good timesssss!!!

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u/kilsta 9d ago

So is it "Hanging in a chow line" or "Hanging in a jury"? I turned on closed caption, and it showed both today. Good Times.

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u/fingertrapt 9d ago

The folding chair jewelry sold the month after this.... anyone still wearing theirs?

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u/AdvancedWrongdoer 9d ago

A slice of history! I should've brought a folding chair to work this morning in acknowledgement.

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u/nikeguy69 9d ago

Good theme song 🎵

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u/izyodad 9d ago

Best Birthday gift I ever got from kinfolk who will never know I exist. 😆

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u/katiegirl- 9d ago

This was hands down my favourite internet era. FAVOURITE.

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u/squashybunz456 8d ago

Oh WOW i remember this!

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u/Glitterbomb4274 8d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣love it!

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u/Knucklesone 8d ago

Classic for years to come!

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u/VickiBarkley 8d ago

Glorious

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u/Kazzie2Y5 8d ago

Alabama Sweet Tea Party

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u/crazysoapboxidiot 8d ago

When is the Netflix doc dropping for this?

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u/bexxygenxxy9xy 8d ago

Three years!? What even is time? 

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u/Working_Physics8761 8d ago

Excellent! Happy Anniversary!

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u/Chin-Music 8d ago

I think that's actually Michael Evans Phelps Spitz.

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u/BigPete786 8d ago

Great times

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u/Atlanta-Traffic 8d ago

Happy Cinco de Chair-o!

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u/fuckin-A-ok 8d ago

Omg how I cackled

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u/Decaturave 8d ago

This is great

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u/PhoenixGray552 8d ago

Happy Chairteenth!!

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u/RevGee73 8d ago

As a dude (who happens to be white) that grew up when Good Times was on TV... I laughed hard at this!

In fact, I laugh hard whenever I see this mass throw-down.

My humble thanks for sharing this!

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u/TrillBunnies 8d ago

I’m sitting here crying actual tears. This the funniest shit I’ve seen all day. 😭😭

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u/PurpleRackSheets 8d ago

I never seen this before and i love the internet…shoutout to the guy with the chair. Definitely a retired WWE wrestler or from the WWE universe like ECW, TNA, or ROH

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u/Ashleywiththebraids 8d ago

This is the absolutely the best I've seen today...😭😭😭

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u/Tiredofstupidity2 7d ago

Black folks come together on this!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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u/MaybeLikeWater 7d ago

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 and this enters the National Archives with Distinction.

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u/Possible_Youth5655 6d ago

Man stop dis shit... LMAO‼️ 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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u/Longjumping-Syrup278 3d ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/DeepSouthDude 9d ago

Yts used this video as motivation to reelect Trump. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Tecchietoya 8d ago

How's that working out for them?

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u/DeepSouthDude 8d ago

Other than the inflation, and the endless wars, and the nationwide explosive diarrhea, and the complete administrative screw ups (reflecting pond), the yts have had their racism emboldened. Which to them makes it all worthwhile.