#Segregation

To maintain segregation in the South, many white residents sought to make fear part of everyday life for African Americans. #APeoplesJourney Their tactics included physical violence, economic threats, and psychological
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β€œI can’t breathe”. (thread)They can’t breathe. They are fighting for their breath, for their words. Not because of the crowds. Not because of the masks. Not because of the tear
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It's interesting how shit like the Simmons/Ringer thing just goes all the way back to the basics of structural racism. Not just his hiring practices, but where those come from.
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African americans who changed the world; an educational and important thread! #BlackLivesMatter π’πšππ’πž π“πšπ§π§πžπ« 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞π₯π₯ 𝐀π₯𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 | π–π«π’π­πžπ« |
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Welcome back class to lesson #3. Today we will discuss why the Confederate Flag Made a 20th Century Comeback. (thank you to @vareeditandweep for the inquiry): TL;DR: the popularity of
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A lot to unpack here. Where to even start?https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1381304010167099392 First of all, y'all need to keep β€˜woke’, out y'all mouth. Any time Black folks voice the most banal of criticisms
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School choice, a thread:One of the major dividers in this country is what happens around schools. Not college, but K-12. It is a form of economic and cultural segregation and
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The democrats have shown themselves in action and in deed not to be a friend to the black people in America. Lydon B Johnson's "war on poverty" only made more
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White American figures in history are all raging racists, wow. So I’m taking a history of disease class and I had to facilitate a class on the racial injustices African
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I’m a 6ft, 85kg male who does martial arts. I tower over the most of the females I train with. If I self-identify as female, should I be allowed to
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You know what I'd do to combat racism?I would establish a universal national service draft. Not military, although the military would be drawn from it. All people, rich or poor,
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SLAVERY: β€œWe’re not racist, we feed our slaves & give them a place to live!”JIM CROW: β€œWe’re not racist, we just want everyone to feel comfortable w/ their own kind!”CHURCH
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A very spicy take: the fact that the most recent edition of D&D is willing to countenance nonbinary elves but repeats racist hackery from a decade ago about orcs is
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y'all are annoying so let's clear up some things, white people can not experience systematic racism in the US. no matter how poor or abandoned a white person is, it
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If white evangelicals want to make meaningful anti-racist statements, they should acknowledge the inherent & structural racism of their fundamentalist faith system & stop being evangelicals. Anger re: de-segregation was
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The Central Park incident is stuck in my mind, exhausting to contemplate. If you are violating the rules of a nationally known nature preserve, a good person says "Oh I'm
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