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We're at least two or three generations away from any of this. Hell, slavery's been abolished for five generations. Five generations ago, my family was poor-a
by douche 10y ago
We're at least two or three generations away from any of this. Hell, slavery's been abolished for five generations. Five generations ago, my family was poor-as-a-churchmouse country bumpkins (still are, by and large). They didn't have any education, and they got drafted to fight in a war they didn't give a tinker's damn about to fight and die on Little Round Top and a dozen other places in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and many of them died.
- Kinnard 10y agoMy Grandmother's Grandmother was a slave and my Grandparents fled the segregated South where lynchings were common. Ever see any of that horrifying Civil Rights Movement footage? A lot of those people are still alive. The victims and the perpetrators. All those people protesting the integration of schools, throwing things at harmless black children? Still alive.
- DanBC 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining Started 1934, continued to at least the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching > Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920. (Someone born in 1968 is 46 / 47.)