• @SpaceNoodle
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    1159 months ago

    First time hearing about America?

      • @chronicledmonocle
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        679 months ago

        Or try voting. Or try electing representation. Or try owning firearms like the white folks.

        Basically anything while trying to be black in America.

            • @SoleInvictus
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              139 months ago

              Fucking hell, this. I used to live in a shit hole conservative state in a shit hole conservative town with a university. My buddy from New Jersey comes to visit. He’s a 5’5 Jamaican man. We take him out one night and two people, each on a separate occasion, asked him if he played football for the university.

              What the fuck.

    • @Buffalox
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      139 months ago

      No, I know this happens, I just don’t get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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        409 months ago

        I just don’t get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?

        The first black student to enroll in a white high school, following desegregation.

        The current Republican frontrunner’s primary voting base.

        It’s the same generation in both images. The first image is Elizabeth Eckford, one of the first black students to enroll in Little Rock high school following desegregation in 1957. Notice that she’s surrounded by a crowd of angry white students. The second image is Donald Trump’s primary voting base.

      • [email protected]
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        299 months ago

        How many generations ago was brutal, undiluted systemic racism accepted? ‘Bout 2.5. it takes a while to fix, given that segregationists instilled such strong feelings into their progeny. It’s easier to break something than to fix it, most especially when someone is actively working to obstruct the repair. It takes 2 seconds to pop a tire and 20 minutes to change.

        • @Buffalox
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          219 months ago

          it takes a while to fix

          This is reality I know, but it’s unacceptable, this kind of racism needs to be punished harder, to make racists understand their behavior is unacceptable.

          • @[email protected]
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            249 months ago

            Sure but the people who would do the punishing are most likely also racist so it won’t happen

            • @Buffalox
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              129 months ago

              Oh boy, you are probably right.