Sundown towns aren't that far behind us, either.
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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 day agoI mean tresspass laws designed to prevent newly freed black people from “just existing” go back to 1865.
Maeve@kbin.earth 17 hours ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
that was the biggest mistake ever.
nomy@lemmy.zip 5 hours 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.”