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While D’Souza’s telling this story, the movie shows us a black guy walking into a bar full of white people. He sits down at the bar between two white guys and, just as D’Souza’s relaying Jackson’s message that race is a larger part of society than we want to admit, the two white guys flat get up and walk away from him, right out of the room. Everyone in the bar then looks at the black guy, accusingly, menacingly.
Oh shit, right? But then D’Souza hits the moral of the story. He tells us, still via voiceover, that what he told Jackson back then was that in his experience, racism had been mostly eradicated. While he’s saying this, while the words are coming out of his mouth, the two white guys come back to the bar and … give the black guy a birthday cake. It was his birthday all along! Everyone in the bar then gives him a standing ovation. It turns out this bar wasn’t full of crackers who instantly sprint out of the room when you sit down, black guy. It was just your birthday! Surprise! White people love you!
”— I have to see this movie.
