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>it was really what brought down Jim Crow in the US Interestingly enough, the Jim Crow laws (as awful as they were) were actually less racist than the outright
by yucky 4y ago
>it was really what brought down Jim Crow in the US
Interestingly enough, the Jim Crow laws (as awful as they were) were actually less racist than the outright race-based discrimination being used today, particularly against Asians. Jim Crow Laws were used against poor whites as well, something forgotten by many. Dr. Adolph Reed has made this point for years - https://goodbye.substack.com/p/adolph-reed-jr-jim-crow-raceclass https://goodbye.substack.com/p/adolph-reed-jr-jim-crow-racec.... His argument is that this is done to keep people's eyes off the prize in terms of class struggle, in order to make it all about identity.