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Baratunde Thurston is usually one of our favorite comedians, but even he couldn't bring himself to laugh at the ugly spectacle of a privileged white man like Donald Trump congratulating himself in front of news cameras for getting Barack Obama to produce a “long-form” birth certificate. Baratunde recorded his feelings about that statement, and what it says to millions of African-Americans.
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