One of the clues on Jeopardy just started with "on November 5th..." and I swear to God my head has not snapped that quickly toward the television since Castiel confessed his love for Dean Winchester on November 5th.
Jeopardy, except all the clues are sourced from those Tumblr posts where people are trying to crowdsource the title of this piece of media they saw/heard/read/played once when they were eight years old and have only a handful of oddly specific details they’re certain about, at least half of which are outlandishly misremembered.
Few videos have ever so clearly illustrated the two worlds that exist in America. The fact that in one of these Jeopardy recaps, none of the white contestants could even identify Ketanji Brown-Jackson—the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice, seated in 2022—was as galling as it was informative.
These are supposedly some of the brightest people in the country, but they don’t even know some of the most cursory details of Black history—conversely, Black Americans are all but required to be aware of and know even thee most obscure details of white “culture” and European history if we want gainful employment and don’t want to be ridiculed or ostracized.
Generally speaking, white people already know precious little about the contributions and the importance of Black History and other non-European cultures, which is why when I see Ron DeSantis and other Republicans mandating laws that whitewash and erase Black history, it makes me realize just how extraordinarily EASY it is to do, because white America is already starting from a severe and intentionally maintained knowledge deficit.