Fox News is consistently in denial about the fact that the American experience is heavily weighted against black people, insisting that everyone in the country has a personal responsibility to pick themselves up by their own boot straps. Luckily for us, Russell Brand is still hellbent on proving Bill O’Reilly and Co. wrong. In his latest episode of “The Trews,” the comedian-turned-political-commentator reads off a list of facts that the “O’Reilly Factor” host chooses to conveniently ignore when ranting about race and education.

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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