[Video] Q17: The speaker of passage 1 would most likely regard black people in the united states who acted in the way described in lines 64-67, passage 2 (“they'd ... us”) as having

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  • A) failed to understand the great contributions that black people in the United States have made to political progress.

  • misrepresented their willingness to suffer negative consequences for their political beliefs.

  • exploited their historic role in humanity's liberation for personal gain.

  • betrayed people who defended them in favor of a country that oppresses them.

Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the 2021 May Sat (International)

Hey guys. So a question 17 says the speaker of passage, 2 one would most likely regard black people in the United States who act in the 3 way described in lines 64 to 67 as having blank. 4 So let's go back and read the line 64 to 67. 5 See what they're saying there. Now these lines say they do their best 6 to keep their country out of war. If unsuccessful, 7 they do their best to help their country win the war against Russia or 8 any other element that threatened us. So this is, 9 um, Jackie Robinson saying like, Hey, listen, I'm lucky. 10 We'll be willing to fight in these wars. They, they would be willing to 11 fight. Whereas Paul Robinson or wait, 12 maybe not. Oh, sorry. Oh yeah, 13 just boss. Uh, Paul Robinson was saying, 14 um, you know, f**k, people would not fight against Soviet union because, 15 so you didn't have support black people's interests. 16 So let's look through our options here and see, 17 okay. Which, which would be an accurate, robust response to that. 18 Jackie Robinson line ACEs says that Robinson would describe these people who would say 19 they, you know, they would fight no matter what, as failed to understand the 20 great contributions that black people say it's a made to political progress. 21 Well, Def that definitely doesn't seem to be what he's saying. 22 He's more saying that black people who would do this would be for, 23 you know, not, um, you know, 24 we'll be forgetting the Soviet union and help them, not anything having to do 25 with frig...

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