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In October 2020, a quote about the hypocrisy of white people calling immigrants lazy was frequently shared alongside an image of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The purported statement was, I don't want to hear about 'lazy immigrants' from a race of people who enslaved a whole other race of people to do all the work they didn't want to do. Powell did not make such a statement. These words were first written in a Jan. 15, 2019, tweet by Twitter user @xziondestinyx. The statement garnered over 122,000 retweets and was shared as a screenshot extensively across multiple platforms. The first time we can find a post attributing the statement to Powell occurred months later. As such, the quote is misattributed to Powell.
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