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Show quote | Sign In to save your setting (remove disclaimer). Photo of Dave Chappelle One of the main stories from the war was. The first big thing we did was they said "Now that Iraq has been liberated... we have managed to take Saddam Hussein's face off of the money." And I'm not gonna lie. When that press conference came on, I was choked up. I was actually proud to be an American because that is a very subtle psychological nuance of oppression to have a dictator on your money. And its thoughtful to be able to take that motherfucker off... for the good will of another person, right? But then I thought, if you could do that for Iraq, what about our money man? Our money looks like baseball cards with slave owners on. George Washington is the worst of the worst. Yes, I said it. We mythologize this motherfucker like he was the greatest dude, man. If I went back in time with a white person and we saw George Washington walking in front of our time machine my white friend would probably say "Ohh my god Dave, look, there's George Washington. The father of this great nation. I'm gonna go shake his hand." I'd be on the other side like "Run, nigga! George Washington!" And we'd both be right. You like him because he wrote the Declaration of Independence and that shit. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men are created equal. Go get me a sandwich, nigga or I'll kill you. ...Liberty, justice for all. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? Wait a minute, didn't he not own slaves? Didn't he not own slaves? That's all I'm saying.
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