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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those white parents in Georgia don’t want to have to explain to their kids why granny and gramps are in those old black and white photos yelling and spitting on black students. So uncomfortable![/quote]

Or photos of whites outside of Chicago hurling objects and mean words at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his group when fighting for better housing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero_March

Good lord people racism is not confined to the South. Someone already hinted at the Boston busing problems. The Tulsa Massacre was in Oklahoma, which I don't consider a Southern state. Western states also had their racial problems but they weren't as ready for television as the South. And in the west it was more anti-Native American violence (for very obvious reasons) and genocide which all made better by lame land acknowledgements.

I grew up in the South and I'm Black. And unless you are retired, and are a great-grandparent, too young to be a parent on a mom's site, you did not experience lynchings, except the figurative ones, like Clarence Thomas experienced at the hands of Joe Biden. The race riots after and since King's death (DC, Watts, Detroit) have all been started by Black people in Black neighborhoods. The most recent in Baltimore. Redlining has been illegal since the late 1940s and fair housing laws have been enforced since the late 1960s. Not to let the South off, but please bring it's sins into the 21st century and stop bringing up stuff that isn't applicable to todays' population.[/quote]

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