Black Lives Matter. Still

Good history thread:

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This needs to be upvoted, and I really wish I could read more about this. All the nasty things WASPs did back then, pouring acid in pools when kids where swimming in it, cementing over public pools and making new ones in “members only” country clubs, and so on.

Except I then feel as if I were rubbernecking, like I’m being nosey, slightly ashamed as I realise a part of me is wanting to see more about someone else’s misfortune.

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There are plenty of books on the topic of mass resistance.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Rabble_Rousers.html?id=RsoPIU1r50kC

For one… it’s important to understand that the civil rights movement did not roll out smoothly and with massive support from white Americans. it was often fought tooth and nail across the country. Understanding that isn’t rubbernecking. It’s educating yourself a bit better about America’s history.

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Oh, I understand that it isn’t rubbernecking, but I thought it worthwhile to express the sort of thoughts everyone has, as I think everyone has this sort of secret shame that really doesn’t have to be. And yet it’s good, it saves me from feeling superior.

And thanks for the book tip.

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https://twitter.com/_charlespreston/status/960677546579955722

https://twitter.com/_charlespreston/status/960678472401211392

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https://youtu.be/BXzNQ6S7pcI

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Fuck fuck fuckity fuck

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https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/01/baltimore-pd-always-carry-a-toy-gun-in-case-you-need-to-plant-one/

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Booker T. Washington, but no W. E. B. Du Bois?

Harumph, I say, Harumph.

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Thanks, so adorbs!

And to think some say we should all “move beyond” the fiction of race. :persevere:

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Full length, nicely presented, mixes in some biography in the animated text as it goes:

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My local public radio station discussing the continuing influence of DuBois in GA:

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