Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"

• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sundown towns aren't that far behind us, either.

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I was going to say something similar. The “it’s now illegal to [x] while black” memes are because the BIPOC community has known this for a long time now. Standing while black, walking while black, jogging while black, eating while black, listening to music while black, sleeping while black, etc… All of these are things that people have been attacked by cops for doing, for literal generations.

  It’s not new; it’s just more visible. And it has finally become so overt that non-BIPOC people have started to feel the same pressure that BIPOC people have dealt with since the country was founded.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    since the country was founded.

    that was the biggest mistake ever.

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    • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The second biggest was letting a bunch of traitors go home with their heads held high to establish a mythos about some imagined poo oilof Drfewheritage. Officers should’ve been hanged/shot, lands should’ve been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, “40 acres and a mule.”

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