Wait till you hear where ice cream truck music comes from.
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
[off topic]
Someone posted that so many early cartoons [Mickey Mouse in particular] wore white gloves because they were modeled on minstrel show characters. You can’t look at American history for more than a minute before something like this pops up.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
orwellianlocksmith@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Go on…
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
Agatha Christie has entered the chat
OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
The rise in backyard swimming pools in the 50-60s was a backlash to public swimming pools becoming desegregated.
Anyone who tries to tell you America isn’t a racist country is racist.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 14 hours ago
On that note.
“Black people can’t swim.”
The masters used to beat all the slaves if they saw any of the kids swimming. Going across a river was the best way to throw off the blood hounds, so it was a good idea for the owners to keep the property out of the water.
Diving With a Purpose. Black scuba divers searching sunken slave ships.
https://divingwithapurpose.org/