Adam Schiff has such lines:
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opuim_eater — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 07:26 PM)
Adam Schiff has such lines:
Back then they had lynch mobs and bullwhips.
Now they use toilet plungers.
Progress.
Can you elucidate what "Now they use toilet plungers" means.
What is the use of this plungersregarding the episode I miss the punchline.
The guy was from Afro-american ethnic background but he lived his life as a white man.
Thanks!
Incidentally I found the meaning.
https://books.google.bg/books?id=TSHVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=Back+then+they+had+lynch..Now+they+use+toilet+plungers.&source=bl&ots=84iOmLz8_0&sig=PGnGL4TvB44-QpvtWx4cjCIsukU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiImsGNgO7RAhVJbRQKHbhYBA8Q6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=Back then they had lynch..Now they use toilet plungers.&f=false -
scrabbler1 — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 09:19 PM)
The imdb page for the episode refers to the Abner Louima police brutality incident which occurred just a few months before the episode first aired in late 1997. Louima might have been sodomized with a broomstick handle instead of a toilet plunger although initial reports may have mentioned a toilet plunger. A picture of him in the Wikipedia page shows him looking pretty dark, so I can't see how he lived as a white man.
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Xeliou66 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 01:37 PM)
Abner Louima didn't live as a white man, he was 100 percent black. He's talking about Steven Burdett in that episode who lived as a white guy and was some corporate big shot but he was half black. That characters background was loosely based on the writer Anatole Broyard, who was also half black but lived as a white guy. Not sure how Louima/Schiff's line played into that episode, but the episode was centered around racism and how it is easier to live as a white guy than a black guy.