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- 0:03Speaker 1: In recent years, many leftist Black Americans have complained to
- 0:06Speaker 1: the high heavens about bigotry in America, But have you
- 0:09Speaker 1: ever heard of the brown paper bag test and who
- 0:12Speaker 1: promotes it to this day? Hello, I'm Ron Edwards on
- 0:16Speaker 1: today's page from your LOCALOK brought to you by Root
- 0:18Speaker 1: Brands premium products. In twentieth century America, the brown paper
- 0:24Speaker 1: bag test was used to deny black people access to
- 0:26Speaker 1: positions of open mobility if their skin tone was darker
- 0:30Speaker 1: than a paper bag. There are horrible stories of black fraternities, sororities,
- 0:35Speaker 1: professional organizations, and churches using paper bag tests to determine membership.
- 0:39Speaker 1: While the idea of brown paper bag testing was first
- 0:42Speaker 1: utilized during the slave era, the long discriminatory tradition of
- 0:46Speaker 1: colorism that explicitly privileged light skin blacks over darker ones
- 0:51Speaker 1: continued by black Americans well into the twentieth century and
- 0:54Speaker 1: is still practiced by some blacks today who leaned toward
- 0:57Speaker 1: the leftist Democrat Party, which is understand animal because the
- 1:00Speaker 1: Democrat Party is the party of slavery, Jim Crow lynchings,
- 1:04Speaker 1: and discrimination. Of course, also the brown paperback test. This
- 1:08Speaker 1: is a perfect example of what Jesus meant when he stated,
- 1:11Speaker 1: instead of focusing on the splinter in your neighbor's eye,
- 1:15Speaker 1: you shauld first take the beam out of your own.
- 1:17Speaker 1: In other words, who may apply to the discrimination you
- 1:21Speaker 1: should be concerned about could be your very own. I'm runnings,