Having to explain to my kids that their grandmother who is very much still alive rode in the back of the bus, drank from a specific fountain, ate at black only establishments, went to a segregated school and lived county adjacent to sundown towns blew their minds. It’s so easy to get caught up in how long ago it was when in reality most of those who endured it are still alive today.
So are the perpetrators. Emmitt Till's accuser just died two years ago. I remember taking a tour while visiting Montgomery, AL, and while we were driving through town, the tour guide pointed out a White man who she said everyone in town knew was involved in lynchings back in the 1960s. There he was, chilling by the side of the road selling used cars...
Jerry jones was part of the mob yelling at black kids trying to walk to school when schools were forced to integrate. That dude is a billionaire and never catches heat for it
We have donated to The Emmitt Till Foundation several times, especially after we found out about their sign always getting shot up. Aside from what they do- and what they stand for- they are just some all-around amazing people who would, like, send hand-written postcards during the COVID lockdown, kinda like ‘we know everyone is suffering right now, and we’re thinking about you and hope you’re doing OK.’ That kind of thing.
All this is to say that the last we heard from them, they’ve solved the ‘sign being shot up’ problem, I think they got that Gorilla Glass on both sides, and so-far-so-good on the sign.
I can promise you that not everyone in town knows about that guy. I live here, begrudgingly, and this is a whole ass city with various town sized pockets separated by various shopping roads.
She came to my city in the spring to give a talk. Not long after, I was talking about it with a client I was helping at work. This lady told me that she was one of the kids that integrated our city high school in the 60s, and was the first black person to graduate there. My polling place is the former black high school, now an elementary school. History is all around us, and not that old.
I was so shocked when I found out she was still alive, and only 71 years old. That's about the same age as some of my coworkers right now. I thought school desegregation happened way further back in history than it actually did, I guess mostly because the thought of segregated schools feels so absurd and surreal.
One of the Tulsa survivors just passed, her name was Viola Ford Fletcher. She lived until she was 111 years old. Lessie Benningfield Randle is still alive at the same age. They were kids, but they still remembered the horror. A lifetime can be so long and so short at the same time.
This always gets me when politics involving race come up. The movie theater I went to every weekend in my small town was the same theater my grandmother wasn't allowed to enter because she was brown. My uncle nearly got killed for entering a white's only bar. Our cemetery is still very clearly segregated.
My (white) kids asked what “BLM” meant recently so we sat down and had a very long talk about slavery, segregation, prejudice. We talked about how racism is NOT gone even if people claim it is. Slavery and segregation weren’t that long ago! It takes more than 1-2 generations for a nasty belief to die off.
We talked in depth about how, if a person only hangs out with people who are exactly the same as them, their beliefs can’t change. They teach their kids those beliefs. Yeah, segregation ended, but we can’t force people to hang out with different humans and challenge their own biases.
Anyway, I love having these conversations with my kids. They get so into it and so pissed and I’m like “yes, keep that energy into adulthood, babies.”
We as a country need to reckon with the fact that slavery still exists today and systemically disproportionately effects people of color through the prison system. It's not a flaw or unintended byproduct, it's the whole point of the current system.
Having grown up in the south, the people I heard talking about the Civil War being fought over states rights were predominantly backwards racists that would be just as quick to defend slavery in a separate conversation, but the older ive gotten the more ive realized they were at least partially correct. The federal government just took the right of owning slaves for itself.
The 13th says exactly that, except it's not just federal. State governments can't and still do as well. I think Tennessee still makes the inmates the service staff at the governor mansion.
I think about it like this: Slavery was in place for roughly 250 years prior to the civil war. Then you add in approximately 100 more years of segregation after that, prior to the civil rights movement. So we had 350 years of systemic racism. It’s only been 60 years from the civil rights movement until now. And yet some people think it’s ancient history.
it's good you told them. even if it was a hard converstaion. when i was little my bff got that talk in 3rd grade, and she related it to me. I didn't know any of that stuff. It was scary, but I'm glad she told me. II'm sorry this still has to happen.
It's partially an effect of color photographs. We see these black and white photographs of these times and our brains equate it with being further in the past than it actually was. We're only 3 generations separated from the birth of this nationdamn near
I was explaining white privilege to a coworker just today. He'd only heard the fox news versions of the phrase. He didn't understand the context of what it meant to grow up not being oppressed.
I don't know if he'll absorb the information. He's a good guy but ignorant and doesn't research or fact check TV.
That's why I don't judge older black folk for saying some shit. They've seen too much awful. It's frustrating at times, sure, but I'm not judging one fuckin bit. That kinda shit doesn't heal in one life.
Ima stay in my lane with any the rest of my thoughts, though. The youngins ain't ready.
And the last of the generation that lived through that are slowly passing away. Just like the Holocaust survivors passing away, it's a lot easier to wash history away, rewrite it and repeat it
A few years back, I took my grandfather fishing in Florida. I parked the car and got out to unload the car when I noticed he was still sitting in the car, so I went up to him to see if everything was okay and he said “This is the whites only side. We can’t be here. We need to leave.” I often reflect on that moment and how different his life was.
I don’t have kids but that must be frustrating. Especially when some people with a straight face will try to tell you that the US is not a racist country.
Despite the history that happened and the fact many want to erase it.
I am so tired of the sanitized, ‘Gone With The Wind,” version of history that sometimes I think about staging full reenactments of slave auctions as a form of public protest. How can we ever address a history we refuse to see? If my Black ancestors could survive the brutality of experiencing it, their (and also my) white descendants can survive witnessing it.
yeah, it's like colleges holding on to native american remains. Liike in Kimmy Schmidt. Jackqueline's SW Native American mom: "Your father just got off the phone with Harvard. They said they're going give us your grandfather's skull back."
This is what i mean when I say that the length of time to make a site "historic" and open for archaeology is a white man's memory. Anything "exotic" is, to white people, up for collecting, curating, selling, and display.
We call those residential schools here in Canada. Unmarked graves were getting found in them pretty recently. Last one closed in the 90s. The premier of Manitoba's (Wab Kinew) father went to one of those 'schools'. Gruesome history that extends especially here north of the border.
In the show 1923, there's a storyline about the residential schools. The history is absolutely horrific, and they managed the capture a small fraction of that. It was difficult to watch at times but I appreciated that it was shown in the appropriate context. The schools were horrendous and the show is pretty good.
That happened to my mother's stepmother. Full blooded Ute, but thanks to the Indian schools she and by extension her five sons had no connection with their native culture.
My grandma (native) was forcibly adopted, had her teeth pulled by white college students in dental school when she was a kid, my uncle and mom were subjected to the same when they were in school (3or 4th grade). I’m 39, this is not that long ago.
Part of my job is helping get ancestral human remains back to tribes and it’s shocking how hard universities and museums try to hold onto people’s ancestors. It’s gross.
If it's any comfort, I work in environmental consulting and one project I recently worked on involved hiring "commercial archaeologists" to evaluate a site we were working on for "cultural resources" before any work could begin. Basically we were required by law to make sure that none of the area we would be doing work in contained evidence of old tribal habitation (e.g., artifacts, human remains). The area we planned to do the work in had a long history of Native American habitation. Only after ensuring that we won't be disturbing anything are we legally permitted to disturb the environment. This is done with guidance and advice from local tribal officials. They also come up with plans on what to do if anything is unexpectedly discovered during excavation to ensure such materials are treated respectfully.
I'm not sure how extensive these legal requirements are in other industries, but I know at least in the environmental remediation world it's pretty standard for folks to consult with local tribes and appropriate professionals to ensure that nothing is disrupted unnecessarily and if anything is discovered in the course of doing work it will be treated respectfully. If we find human remains or old pottery we would consult with tribes and landowners, we wouldn't just be like "oh cool" and send stuff to a museum.
I thought it was super cool when I read about it in the work plan. I don't think the initial surveys found anything but I'll be interested to see if anything pops up down the line.
Indigenous person in Canada here, my people just (as in the past week) JUST got a wooden canoe back from the Vatican. Took so many years and they just fucking held on to it like it was their god given right
There are not many of us, but we fought hard and long to get our items back, and finally wore the Vatican down.
That part of our federal funding was left untouched actually! I joke that as soon as they figure out what NAGPRA means then they’ll come for those grants, but until then the work continues lol
I know it’s been hitting some CRM projects— fingers crossed it doesn’t hit what you’re doing. Hoping to get into repatriation work after I graduate, but I know there’s not a ton of funding normally
My older siblings and I are mixed (blarab) but my dad got remarried to a white woman who's family owns farmland in Texas. They are near some well known plantations. One summer, my step mom's parents took us to stay there, and while we were out playing, we get called over to come look at a tree with a branch sawed off. Our step mom's dad gushed about how they used to eat lunch and watch them hang peole like it was T.V., or that the bodies would hang there for days and sometimes they'd find shoes or other items left behind or moved by wild animals. Of course being that we grew up in a household with a black parent, we knew they weren't hanging white people. He then tried to grab us and make us touch the tree and stand where the branch used to hang over. He had kitchen stirring spoons passed down that were made from branches that fell during storms. My step mom had one hanging in the kitchen.
I refused to ever go there again, though my cousins and my half siblings went frequently.
I'm Maori and my ancestor's heads/remains are in museums around the world. Our national museum (Te Papa) has a team dedicated to bringing them and many other remains home, with moderate success. Still pisses me the fuck off that they've been treated like that though.
Shout out to the British Museum for refusing to return seven toi moko with the excuse that “it’s not clear that the importance to the original community outweighs the use of them as a source for human history” and “it wasn’t clear that a burial had been interrupted/disturbed.”
In 1961, when the CIA, MI5, and Belgian intelligence kidnapped and assassinated (and dismembered, dissolved, pulverized, and dumped) Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, one of the Belgians kept several of his teeth as a souvenir. All but one was lost over time and it wasn't until 2022 that this, representing his final remains, was returned to his family and given a proper burial.
Oxford academics drank from a chalice made from a human skull, rumoured to belong to an enslaved Caribbean woman, for decades, a book has revealed.
The skull-cup, fashioned from a sawn-off and polished braincase adorned with a silver rim and stand, was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College, Oxford, until 2015, according to Prof Dan Hicks, the curator of world archaeology at the university’s Pitt Rivers Museum.
Hicks, whose forthcoming book, Every Monument Will Fall, explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains, said the cup was also used to serve chocolates after it began to leak wine.
These same people perpetuate stories about "natives" boiling their enemies in a cauldron and feasting on the resulting stew. We cannot and must not believe a word they say about our history.
It's because we weren't seen as people, just very human looking livestock. Another example I can think of is our hair used to be used as stuffing for cushions, pillows, dolls, and etc.
I kinda get it because I just saw a video of Glenn Beck talking to an AI generated version of George Washington, and these freaks are so sick and obsessed with their myths and their whiteness that the insanity has no bounds
They will make up ghosts to talk to and empty chairs to argue with just to validate their feelings of superiority
Those people do not see minorities as people. They see them as wild animals and property . And I say this because we know how they treat their dogs, cats and other animals they put above human life
Being denied your personhood, being experimented on, literally groups of people arguing if you’re a full person.
It’s disgusting but don’t bring it up cuz it’s so long ago and Kevin in 11th grade has nothing to do with that. True to the last part but it’s American history and Kevin should know how “patriots” treated Americans
I’m white and it’s been shocking the last few years I’ve been reading and watching more that’s outside the “white approved” civil rights we are taught in school. The amount of white washing and sugar coating is sick. And calling it “black history” like it’s just something that happened, not that white people were actively doing it! It’s our history just as much.
Props for seeking it out. This is largely why southern states have been so hell bent on removing that history from our schools. It won't take long at all for a large portion of the population to become completely unaware of these aspects of American history. Then it becomes even easier to blame minorities for the ongoing effects of systemic racism and oppression.
On this note as a white person, I think there should be rules against using black and white photos in text books when color photography was already around. Even born in the 80s I associated b&w photo and tv with old people and distant past. It only gets worse with every generation. We should be doing more to help students realize this wasn’t THAT long ago and color teaching materials is a small but impactful step we could take. I mean the whole history teaching curriculum needs an overhaul, but yeah.
Black history is American history. It's weird that it's considered to be a separate category. I mean I know why it is, but I wish it wasn't considered like some footnote or appendix to the "real" history. Black history is real history too!
My school made a huge effort to include Black history in the curriculum beyond the standard generic overview a lot of students get, but I still feel like I missed out on so much stuff. Like I didn't learn about the Tulsa Massacre until I was an adult.
One of the biggest cases of whitewashing I’ve seen is teaching that only through peaceful protest did MLK Jr. desegregate America. The reality is with Malcolm X’s movement starting to get physical, King and most politicians in Washington knew that his peaceful movement would probably be the last peaceful one if they didn’t give black people rights. They always gloss over the fact that an undertone of King’s movement was “either change it peacefully, or have a full-blown revolution if I fail and they go to Malcolm X.” In order to act like we the people should only peacefully protest clear government tyranny.
The two counties I've lived in during my lifetime ignored Brown v BOE and effectively segregated most of their schools until 1971, 11 years before I was born. Many of the politicians and school officials who enforced that garbage are still alive, voting, maybe even holding office. Their children and grandchildren didn't magically grow up free from racism just because they finally went to school with people of other races. Give them the chance, many of them would gladly bring those days back.
Im 38, A decade ago I worked with an old head who's grandmother was born a slave. He was in his 60's at the time. When we talk about how long ago these things happen, the numbers can seem big, but in reality it wasnt that long ago.
hello, white girl in her 30s here. that's absolutely fucked. and I think it's also absolutely fucked that this is the first ive ever heard about that. THIS is the sort of shit my american history classes should have taught me in high school, not yet another year on the american revolution.
Go to your school board meetings. Vote. Yell and make a nasty stink about this sort of thing being pulled from the curriculum. Be just as loud and lowdown as the dumbest republicans you see in news articles.
Do white folks tell their grand kids they rode in the front of the bus, lived in white only towns and drank from their own water fountains. If so, do they do it with remorse or nostalgia.
Nostalgia for the MAGAs of course. What do you think the “again” in MAGA stands for? A return to a time when white people held all the power (as if they don’t still hold most of the power).
Depends on how they felt about it. My racist ass grandma said it with her whole chest proud as fuck and wished it never changed. My mom who raised me to see systemic racism said it with sadness. My Canadian stepdad talked about moving to the South in his late teens and was just like wtf even is this
It depends. Way too many with nostalgia if I had to guess. My grandma told us with remorse, but I don't think it stuck with all of her kids if you know what I mean. My mom told my sister and I with remorse and in detail, with pictures. My aunt...not so much.
You’ve seen the Rebel flag right? (Funny my autocorrect will auto capitalize Rebel but not my I’s) Southerners tell their history with pride. Groups like the DAR and America First are the northern equivalent.
My father in law had his dental practice on the west side of Detroit in the 70s-90s. He's got almost nothing for retirement except social security, and nearly 80, but doesn't regret a thing. He knew what he was doing and it's not like he couldn't raise his family being a dentist. Made sure he could give his office staff a solid wage and good benefits. It takes a strong person to see the disgusting norms of society and say "fuck it" and do something to fix it. We don't talk about it, he doesn't even really acknowledge it. But every so often he gets fired up and you can see the hurt that inspired him.
Small people make a big difference in their communities.
I know this might take the conversation to the left, but this is the same Chris Rock who allowed a white man to call him nigga and told said white man Louis CK he is the blackest white man he has ever met in his life. Is that the same Chris Rock? And quite literally the only person to say something being the pdf Jerry Seinfeld. you talk about your mother having to go to a vet…
I forget where I read it, probably here. But it was a story or a nurse or an aide who took the confession of a retired racist firefighter who was dying. This nurse/aide who was black was surprised this guy wanted to tell him all this but basically....The guys said said it was common practice to let buildings and houses on fire burn if they were in the "ghetto" the guy said the screams of people burning alive haunted him for years and he was going to die with those screams.
Makes me think of thay video of a teacher trying to explain to her students that slaves didn't get paid. The kids disagreed. History itself is being changed
Sorry to intrude, but a lot of the link between time it occurred and the perception of when it occurred was skewed.
Civil rights activists, groups, major events, etc were taken in color photos. Color photos existed during the Civil Rights era in the US, however when it came to putting those historically important documents like news papers, magazines, etc color was more expensive and took much longer to print, resulting in the images being saved/published in black and white.
This has had a subconscious social effect primarily because most people still associate black and white images with the very very early 1900s and so it forced time perspective on a lot of people inadvertently.
Meaning people who see a lot of these photos subconsciously link the black and white of the images to being further back in history than they actually were. As some people here have already mentioned, having people look up recent images of historical black figures from the Civil Rights era helps break that internal skewment, as does finding the original color images- though many of these are hard to find.
Unfortunately, this is only really going to sway people who do actually want to be a better person/grow and develop. It will not make a dent on those that prefer their head in the ground or prefer to be hate mongering ass hats.
Which is funny. I've ended up seeing more early color photography than I have from the 60s, even including my own family photos. There's actually quite a lot out there.
As a kid lived in Florida, doing the summer break we travel to Alabama. We always would leave at first light about 5:30/6:00 am. About 3 or more cars with our family members in each car. Each car had food, water, gas a guns. As a kid I was just happy to go on a road trip. I didn't no why we did the thing we did going to Alabama or returning to Florida.
In my teens one of the last times we drove to Alabama, I learned why we leave between 5:30 /6;00 am, packed food, water and guns. This was late 1960' s early 1970's, blacks traveling at night in Florida or Alabama was targets for people who just wanted to harm or kill blacks. The police was was also just as dangerous as the general white public. I remember the no blacks allowed signs, the water fountains, segregation, just because the government made a law in nineteen sixty three, didn't mean people followed the law and treated blacks as American citizens. Was this the time America was great?
I’m just middle aged white guy who came across this post and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of someone having to go to the fucking VET to get dental care just because they are black. And it’s not that I’ve never thought about how fucked up everything was/is but when you start to think about the smaller every day things that others go through it hits different. Idk wtf I’m saying I’m high rn and this just got me
My kids’ mind were blown learning about Ruby Bridges, and how people treated her as a freaking child. Like absolutely blown that adults could collectively be that cruel and abusive to a child.
Their minds were further blown to be told that she is still alive, and still advocating for equality. And, still suffering PTSD from what was done to her.
This is why it's so hard to get older Black people to go to the doctor, esp. the Dentist. even when they really need to go. They've seen too much. My uncle would pull his own teeth with pliers. 🤷🏾♀️
They don’t teach this in school. And yet, the MAGA crowd thinks that what is actually being taught already goes too far, because some white kids might feel shame.
It's time like these I feel like a fool trying to convince loved ones to trust the institution of medicine, black people really do have EXTREMELY valid reasons for distrust even if it leads to things like conspiracy and anti-intellectualism it's just
the experimentation and torture are so recent. how can i blame my folks
Maybe the movies should show all the ugly stuff that normally doesn’t get shown. Be explicit and graphic and unapologetic. Show it the way Spielberg showed the Holocaust in Schindler’s List. It needs to be seen by the younger generations to remember the struggle
That people have trouble grasping the proximity of these evil practices is proof that the erasure in our schools is working. My FATHER went to segregated schools until HIGH SCHOOL. It is not ancient history. And every time another precedent is stripped away, I become more horrified at how quickly we’re going back. These are truly terrifying times.
Aside from my time in the military, I've lived my entire life inthe South (AL & TX). Down here, it's hard to forget. The reminders are still very present. Sundown towns, lynching, etc.... still here/happening. My Dad is 70yrs old. I've heard his stories about banks closing his accounts and taking his money because "n*****s ain't supposed to have no money"
or how hard it was to get a home loan, in 1989, even though he had worked for the city of Mtn Brook (wealthiest suburb of Birmingham) for 7yrs.
I’m a Xennial (early 80s baby) in Texas and Houston ISD didn’t officially desegregate till after I was born.
Houston has an amazing and huge medical center today, but when I was a baby, if you were a black patient that needed a referral to a cardiologist or oncologist, your referral would often get sat on, lost, or withheld for months.
Man every now and then I start to think I get it. Then I realize I dont when I learn more, then I think Im starting to get it again.
Then I see stuff like this on this sub and its like... I dont think I'll ever truly get it.
The everyday horror of having what are basically your body parts kept as a trophy. Like this was just to get a tooth pulled and thats the experience you have.
Why?? What is this beyond fucked up dynamic? Its so sick. And those kids that got those teeth as a gift, how old are they now? In their 50s or 60s?
Its like something out of a horror movie and its like the lived experience of what like one generation ago?
My parents talk about going to the dentist as kids and them pulling their teeth instead of treating the problem. They're both in their 70's now so that would have been somewhere in the 50's.
And so many fucking fucks will say SLaVeRy EnDeD LoNg aGo as if day 1 black folks were treated equally and to this goddam day people live with the generational trauma and tangible financial, residential, educational etc etc effects. People are so stupid and willfully ignorant it hurts
It’s why i hate gangster movies as well. My brothers was in gangs for half his life and they don’t show what really it’s about. Only the good, the fun, and the fall
My grandfather openly speaks about seeing/encountering the Klan and how he was the only Black student or very few in the whole school and how they were ceaselessly called all kinds of derogatory and racist terms simply because they were Black and unafraid.
I wish they’d stop calling history because a lot of things still happen. Once you know the design of the racial hierarchy and WHY the categories were created, you can’t unsee it and view society as you once did…
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Having to explain to my kids that their grandmother who is very much still alive rode in the back of the bus, drank from a specific fountain, ate at black only establishments, went to a segregated school and lived county adjacent to sundown towns blew their minds. It’s so easy to get caught up in how long ago it was when in reality most of those who endured it are still alive today.
So are the perpetrators. Emmitt Till's accuser just died two years ago. I remember taking a tour while visiting Montgomery, AL, and while we were driving through town, the tour guide pointed out a White man who she said everyone in town knew was involved in lynchings back in the 1960s. There he was, chilling by the side of the road selling used cars...
And to this day, the admission of her lying wasn’t loud enough for me! Not enough retribution.
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Jerry jones was part of the mob yelling at black kids trying to walk to school when schools were forced to integrate. That dude is a billionaire and never catches heat for it
This is why I truly hope Hell exist.
I hope people spit on her grave. God forbid I ever find myself in Montgomery, I’d do it too.
She was cremated. They knew.
Oh wow, smart.
And they still shoot up the memorial sign every time it gets replaced.
We have donated to The Emmitt Till Foundation several times, especially after we found out about their sign always getting shot up. Aside from what they do- and what they stand for- they are just some all-around amazing people who would, like, send hand-written postcards during the COVID lockdown, kinda like ‘we know everyone is suffering right now, and we’re thinking about you and hope you’re doing OK.’ That kind of thing.
All this is to say that the last we heard from them, they’ve solved the ‘sign being shot up’ problem, I think they got that Gorilla Glass on both sides, and so-far-so-good on the sign.
My cousins who are very much alive played with Emmitt Till.
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It’s a heavy reality. History isn’t just in books; it’s lived and felt every day by so many!!
Unfortunately, it’s being whitewashed as we speak.
And they vote more consistently than any other voting block. And we know who they're voting for
I can promise you that not everyone in town knows about that guy. I live here, begrudgingly, and this is a whole ass city with various town sized pockets separated by various shopping roads.
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It doesn’t; one of the few criminal acts without one.
Ruby Bridges is 71 years old. That really puts it in perspective.
Literally barely older than my mother. It always makes my heart hurt that she and my mom could have been going to school together.
Same, my parents and Ruby would have been classmates.
My father is 89, he could have very well been her dad (I’m 44)
Younger than my grandma 😔
She came to my city in the spring to give a talk. Not long after, I was talking about it with a client I was helping at work. This lady told me that she was one of the kids that integrated our city high school in the 60s, and was the first black person to graduate there. My polling place is the former black high school, now an elementary school. History is all around us, and not that old.
She has an active instagram account
I was so shocked when I found out she was still alive, and only 71 years old. That's about the same age as some of my coworkers right now. I thought school desegregation happened way further back in history than it actually did, I guess mostly because the thought of segregated schools feels so absurd and surreal.
One of the Tulsa survivors just passed, her name was Viola Ford Fletcher. She lived until she was 111 years old. Lessie Benningfield Randle is still alive at the same age. They were kids, but they still remembered the horror. A lifetime can be so long and so short at the same time.
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This always gets me when politics involving race come up. The movie theater I went to every weekend in my small town was the same theater my grandmother wasn't allowed to enter because she was brown. My uncle nearly got killed for entering a white's only bar. Our cemetery is still very clearly segregated.
All that stuff wasn't that long ago.
My (white) kids asked what “BLM” meant recently so we sat down and had a very long talk about slavery, segregation, prejudice. We talked about how racism is NOT gone even if people claim it is. Slavery and segregation weren’t that long ago! It takes more than 1-2 generations for a nasty belief to die off.
We talked in depth about how, if a person only hangs out with people who are exactly the same as them, their beliefs can’t change. They teach their kids those beliefs. Yeah, segregation ended, but we can’t force people to hang out with different humans and challenge their own biases.
Anyway, I love having these conversations with my kids. They get so into it and so pissed and I’m like “yes, keep that energy into adulthood, babies.”
We as a country need to reckon with the fact that slavery still exists today and systemically disproportionately effects people of color through the prison system. It's not a flaw or unintended byproduct, it's the whole point of the current system.
Having grown up in the south, the people I heard talking about the Civil War being fought over states rights were predominantly backwards racists that would be just as quick to defend slavery in a separate conversation, but the older ive gotten the more ive realized they were at least partially correct. The federal government just took the right of owning slaves for itself.
The 13th says exactly that, except it's not just federal. State governments can't and still do as well. I think Tennessee still makes the inmates the service staff at the governor mansion.
I think about it like this: Slavery was in place for roughly 250 years prior to the civil war. Then you add in approximately 100 more years of segregation after that, prior to the civil rights movement. So we had 350 years of systemic racism. It’s only been 60 years from the civil rights movement until now. And yet some people think it’s ancient history.
it's good you told them. even if it was a hard converstaion. when i was little my bff got that talk in 3rd grade, and she related it to me. I didn't know any of that stuff. It was scary, but I'm glad she told me. II'm sorry this still has to happen.
It’s tough, but telling them shows you care and want them to be informed. That kind of honesty is a gift, even if it’s hard.
It's partially an effect of color photographs. We see these black and white photographs of these times and our brains equate it with being further in the past than it actually was. We're only 3 generations separated from the birth of this nationdamn near
B&W photos because newspapers were all B&W until the late 80s/early 90s
The first presidential inauguration to not issue official photos in B&W was in 2001
The last person still collecting a civil war pension, the daughter of a veteran, died about five years ago.
Not even granddaughter. Daughter.
I was explaining white privilege to a coworker just today. He'd only heard the fox news versions of the phrase. He didn't understand the context of what it meant to grow up not being oppressed.
I don't know if he'll absorb the information. He's a good guy but ignorant and doesn't research or fact check TV.
That's why I don't judge older black folk for saying some shit. They've seen too much awful. It's frustrating at times, sure, but I'm not judging one fuckin bit. That kinda shit doesn't heal in one life.
Ima stay in my lane with any the rest of my thoughts, though. The youngins ain't ready.
Quincy Jones just recently died & his grandmother was a slave. That blew my mind.
And the last of the generation that lived through that are slowly passing away. Just like the Holocaust survivors passing away, it's a lot easier to wash history away, rewrite it and repeat it
A few years back, I took my grandfather fishing in Florida. I parked the car and got out to unload the car when I noticed he was still sitting in the car, so I went up to him to see if everything was okay and he said “This is the whites only side. We can’t be here. We need to leave.” I often reflect on that moment and how different his life was.
I'm only 34 and that's my parents generation. The folks do not understand how close to today these things actually happened.
We need to tell more of their stories before it’s too late.
Ruby bridges is 70. That always blow my mind
I don’t have kids but that must be frustrating. Especially when some people with a straight face will try to tell you that the US is not a racist country.
Despite the history that happened and the fact many want to erase it.
I am so tired of the sanitized, ‘Gone With The Wind,” version of history that sometimes I think about staging full reenactments of slave auctions as a form of public protest. How can we ever address a history we refuse to see? If my Black ancestors could survive the brutality of experiencing it, their (and also my) white descendants can survive witnessing it.
It’s important that you keep your family history alive.
That's hella vile to just take someone's permanent teeth like a souvenirs.
yeah, it's like colleges holding on to native american remains. Liike in Kimmy Schmidt. Jackqueline's SW Native American mom: "Your father just got off the phone with Harvard. They said they're going give us your grandfather's skull back."
This is what i mean when I say that the length of time to make a site "historic" and open for archaeology is a white man's memory. Anything "exotic" is, to white people, up for collecting, curating, selling, and display.
That line blew me away because it's like, a joke but it's fucking not.
Yeah I'm sure it was played as dark humor but reading that made my stomach sink
I have a friend whose aunt was stolen from their reservation and put in a "native" school and barred from speaking her native language.
This friend is a millennial.
We call those residential schools here in Canada. Unmarked graves were getting found in them pretty recently. Last one closed in the 90s. The premier of Manitoba's (Wab Kinew) father went to one of those 'schools'. Gruesome history that extends especially here north of the border.
In the show 1923, there's a storyline about the residential schools. The history is absolutely horrific, and they managed the capture a small fraction of that. It was difficult to watch at times but I appreciated that it was shown in the appropriate context. The schools were horrendous and the show is pretty good.
That happened to my mother's stepmother. Full blooded Ute, but thanks to the Indian schools she and by extension her five sons had no connection with their native culture.
My grandma (native) was forcibly adopted, had her teeth pulled by white college students in dental school when she was a kid, my uncle and mom were subjected to the same when they were in school (3or 4th grade). I’m 39, this is not that long ago.
That show was really good at that kind of thing.
Part of my job is helping get ancestral human remains back to tribes and it’s shocking how hard universities and museums try to hold onto people’s ancestors. It’s gross.
If it's any comfort, I work in environmental consulting and one project I recently worked on involved hiring "commercial archaeologists" to evaluate a site we were working on for "cultural resources" before any work could begin. Basically we were required by law to make sure that none of the area we would be doing work in contained evidence of old tribal habitation (e.g., artifacts, human remains). The area we planned to do the work in had a long history of Native American habitation. Only after ensuring that we won't be disturbing anything are we legally permitted to disturb the environment. This is done with guidance and advice from local tribal officials. They also come up with plans on what to do if anything is unexpectedly discovered during excavation to ensure such materials are treated respectfully.
I'm not sure how extensive these legal requirements are in other industries, but I know at least in the environmental remediation world it's pretty standard for folks to consult with local tribes and appropriate professionals to ensure that nothing is disrupted unnecessarily and if anything is discovered in the course of doing work it will be treated respectfully. If we find human remains or old pottery we would consult with tribes and landowners, we wouldn't just be like "oh cool" and send stuff to a museum.
Yup I work at a tribal museum and we have an archaeology team that gets contracted for this work frequently. Helps keep us all employed actually haha
I thought it was super cool when I read about it in the work plan. I don't think the initial surveys found anything but I'll be interested to see if anything pops up down the line.
Indigenous person in Canada here, my people just (as in the past week) JUST got a wooden canoe back from the Vatican. Took so many years and they just fucking held on to it like it was their god given right
There are not many of us, but we fought hard and long to get our items back, and finally wore the Vatican down.
How’s that going currently with the federal stuff going on? Heard fundings been a bitch and a half because of all the EOs
That part of our federal funding was left untouched actually! I joke that as soon as they figure out what NAGPRA means then they’ll come for those grants, but until then the work continues lol
heres hoping they never learn how to read
I know it’s been hitting some CRM projects— fingers crossed it doesn’t hit what you’re doing. Hoping to get into repatriation work after I graduate, but I know there’s not a ton of funding normally
Not a ton of funding but plenty of work! And not all careers offer you a chance to do work that actually makes you feel good inside.
My older siblings and I are mixed (blarab) but my dad got remarried to a white woman who's family owns farmland in Texas. They are near some well known plantations. One summer, my step mom's parents took us to stay there, and while we were out playing, we get called over to come look at a tree with a branch sawed off. Our step mom's dad gushed about how they used to eat lunch and watch them hang peole like it was T.V., or that the bodies would hang there for days and sometimes they'd find shoes or other items left behind or moved by wild animals. Of course being that we grew up in a household with a black parent, we knew they weren't hanging white people. He then tried to grab us and make us touch the tree and stand where the branch used to hang over. He had kitchen stirring spoons passed down that were made from branches that fell during storms. My step mom had one hanging in the kitchen.
I refused to ever go there again, though my cousins and my half siblings went frequently.
What. A. Piece. Of. Shit.
I'm Maori and my ancestor's heads/remains are in museums around the world. Our national museum (Te Papa) has a team dedicated to bringing them and many other remains home, with moderate success. Still pisses me the fuck off that they've been treated like that though.
Shout out to the British Museum for refusing to return seven toi moko with the excuse that “it’s not clear that the importance to the original community outweighs the use of them as a source for human history” and “it wasn’t clear that a burial had been interrupted/disturbed.”
Just classic British Museum shit.
The British Museum has been PARTICULARLY shitty about it like it's a goddamn contest, but what's new.
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University of Pennsylvania had them not Penn State (Pennsylvania State University). Two different schools.
In 1961, when the CIA, MI5, and Belgian intelligence kidnapped and assassinated (and dismembered, dissolved, pulverized, and dumped) Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, one of the Belgians kept several of his teeth as a souvenir. All but one was lost over time and it wasn't until 2022 that this, representing his final remains, was returned to his family and given a proper burial.
More sinister goings on across the pond:
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These same people perpetuate stories about "natives" boiling their enemies in a cauldron and feasting on the resulting stew. We cannot and must not believe a word they say about our history.
And they accuse us of not being human.
Wow. Absolutely horrible, and quite part for the course for the Belgians. Have you read King Leopold's Ghost?
It's because we weren't seen as people, just very human looking livestock. Another example I can think of is our hair used to be used as stuffing for cushions, pillows, dolls, and etc.
There's a book called "The Delectable Negro," and yes it's about exactly what you think.
That’s still a shitty gift. Imagine getting a random fucking tooth as a gift.
People like this make me hope there is a hell
People like this make me believe that demons exist.
There's a reason we teach children that Washington had wooden teeth.
I truly cannot fathom why you would want to. How are racists this fucked?
Literally what Nazis did.
The fuck is wrong with people?
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He was a much better man than those monsters
I kinda get it because I just saw a video of Glenn Beck talking to an AI generated version of George Washington, and these freaks are so sick and obsessed with their myths and their whiteness that the insanity has no bounds
They will make up ghosts to talk to and empty chairs to argue with just to validate their feelings of superiority
His debates are on YouTube. Would suggest everyone watch them.
Baldwin made William Buckley Jr. look like the bitchmade lilttle racist blowhard that he was in that famous debate.
My favourite author 👏🏽 "The Fire Next Time" should be required reading in schools.
https://speakola.com/ideas/james-baldwin-v-william-f-buckley-1965
I watch this often, at least a few times a year. Gets me every single time. How I wish I had learned about him when I was in school.
Those people do not see minorities as people. They see them as wild animals and property . And I say this because we know how they treat their dogs, cats and other animals they put above human life
Being denied your personhood, being experimented on, literally groups of people arguing if you’re a full person.
It’s disgusting but don’t bring it up cuz it’s so long ago and Kevin in 11th grade has nothing to do with that. True to the last part but it’s American history and Kevin should know how “patriots” treated Americans
Idk I think it's worse. I wouldn't take an animal's teeth out for fun or as keepsakes.
Racism is particularly evil and those ✋🏻racists are still around and still evil and vile creatures.
I feel like if I heard a new shitty story about America every day for the rest of my life I'd die not even knowing a tenth of them.
Vile
I’m white and it’s been shocking the last few years I’ve been reading and watching more that’s outside the “white approved” civil rights we are taught in school. The amount of white washing and sugar coating is sick. And calling it “black history” like it’s just something that happened, not that white people were actively doing it! It’s our history just as much.
Props for seeking it out. This is largely why southern states have been so hell bent on removing that history from our schools. It won't take long at all for a large portion of the population to become completely unaware of these aspects of American history. Then it becomes even easier to blame minorities for the ongoing effects of systemic racism and oppression.
On this note as a white person, I think there should be rules against using black and white photos in text books when color photography was already around. Even born in the 80s I associated b&w photo and tv with old people and distant past. It only gets worse with every generation. We should be doing more to help students realize this wasn’t THAT long ago and color teaching materials is a small but impactful step we could take. I mean the whole history teaching curriculum needs an overhaul, but yeah.
Black history is American history. It's weird that it's considered to be a separate category. I mean I know why it is, but I wish it wasn't considered like some footnote or appendix to the "real" history. Black history is real history too!
My school made a huge effort to include Black history in the curriculum beyond the standard generic overview a lot of students get, but I still feel like I missed out on so much stuff. Like I didn't learn about the Tulsa Massacre until I was an adult.
One of the biggest cases of whitewashing I’ve seen is teaching that only through peaceful protest did MLK Jr. desegregate America. The reality is with Malcolm X’s movement starting to get physical, King and most politicians in Washington knew that his peaceful movement would probably be the last peaceful one if they didn’t give black people rights. They always gloss over the fact that an undertone of King’s movement was “either change it peacefully, or have a full-blown revolution if I fail and they go to Malcolm X.” In order to act like we the people should only peacefully protest clear government tyranny.
Man I remember my grade school teacher seriously trying to try to pass off sharecropping like it was a good thing.
Only after I grew up and started reading autobiographies and watching documentaries did I learn anything that was actually true. Fuck whitewashing.
I've turned on a few light bulbs by telling people to look up a recent photo of Ruby Bridges. It's all so much more recent than people think.
Ruby Bridges is younger than my mother and Im a Millenial.
Martha Stewart is as many years older than Ruby Bridges, as Ruby Bridges is older than Will Smith.
So recent in fact that she has an Instagram...
Not only is Ruby still alive but her teacher is too.
Donald Trump was 14 when Ruby Bridges made headlines as a 6yo.
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Hell some are proabalby holding office
I believe the owner of the Dallas Cowboys was part of a mob protesting school integration as a teenager
Yup, Jerry Jones fought tooth and nail to try to get his photo erased from the internet…Pepperidge Farm remembers 👩🏾🏫
There’s a photograph of him in the crowd of students around one of the girls breaking the barrier.
The two counties I've lived in during my lifetime ignored Brown v BOE and effectively segregated most of their schools until 1971, 11 years before I was born. Many of the politicians and school officials who enforced that garbage are still alive, voting, maybe even holding office. Their children and grandchildren didn't magically grow up free from racism just because they finally went to school with people of other races. Give them the chance, many of them would gladly bring those days back.
Im 38, A decade ago I worked with an old head who's grandmother was born a slave. He was in his 60's at the time. When we talk about how long ago these things happen, the numbers can seem big, but in reality it wasnt that long ago.
Chris Rock should make the movie he wants to see with the things his mother had to do.
Unfortunately the rich white people that finance movies, work out distribution deals, and control streaming services don't want that movie to be seen
He himself would not push that cause he would have to come to terms with his own issues
This is the past that republicans glorify and want to return to.
As Bryan Cranston said, “When was America ever great for an African American”
i had to read this a couple times
now i want to burn shit
You and me both fam
hello, white girl in her 30s here. that's absolutely fucked. and I think it's also absolutely fucked that this is the first ive ever heard about that. THIS is the sort of shit my american history classes should have taught me in high school, not yet another year on the american revolution.
Yeah it's really sad how little of Black history we actually learn in school.
Go to your school board meetings. Vote. Yell and make a nasty stink about this sort of thing being pulled from the curriculum. Be just as loud and lowdown as the dumbest republicans you see in news articles.
Wtf
Do white folks tell their grand kids they rode in the front of the bus, lived in white only towns and drank from their own water fountains. If so, do they do it with remorse or nostalgia.
Nostalgia for the MAGAs of course. What do you think the “again” in MAGA stands for? A return to a time when white people held all the power (as if they don’t still hold most of the power).
Depends on how they felt about it. My racist ass grandma said it with her whole chest proud as fuck and wished it never changed. My mom who raised me to see systemic racism said it with sadness. My Canadian stepdad talked about moving to the South in his late teens and was just like wtf even is this
It depends. Way too many with nostalgia if I had to guess. My grandma told us with remorse, but I don't think it stuck with all of her kids if you know what I mean. My mom told my sister and I with remorse and in detail, with pictures. My aunt...not so much.
You’ve seen the Rebel flag right? (Funny my autocorrect will auto capitalize Rebel but not my I’s) Southerners tell their history with pride. Groups like the DAR and America First are the northern equivalent.
And here we are trying to exist while these creepy MFS constantly doing shit that belongs on Get Out
Such indignity. Peace be with his grandfather.
This is so fucking vile.
My father in law had his dental practice on the west side of Detroit in the 70s-90s. He's got almost nothing for retirement except social security, and nearly 80, but doesn't regret a thing. He knew what he was doing and it's not like he couldn't raise his family being a dentist. Made sure he could give his office staff a solid wage and good benefits. It takes a strong person to see the disgusting norms of society and say "fuck it" and do something to fix it. We don't talk about it, he doesn't even really acknowledge it. But every so often he gets fired up and you can see the hurt that inspired him. Small people make a big difference in their communities.
I know this might take the conversation to the left, but this is the same Chris Rock who allowed a white man to call him nigga and told said white man Louis CK he is the blackest white man he has ever met in his life. Is that the same Chris Rock? And quite literally the only person to say something being the pdf Jerry Seinfeld. you talk about your mother having to go to a vet…
People internalise things is in sad bad ways is the only explanation I have for him
Oh I know it’s internalized issues he has with himself. That much is obvious
I forget where I read it, probably here. But it was a story or a nurse or an aide who took the confession of a retired racist firefighter who was dying. This nurse/aide who was black was surprised this guy wanted to tell him all this but basically....The guys said said it was common practice to let buildings and houses on fire burn if they were in the "ghetto" the guy said the screams of people burning alive haunted him for years and he was going to die with those screams.
Makes me think of thay video of a teacher trying to explain to her students that slaves didn't get paid. The kids disagreed. History itself is being changed
The whole country is currently reaping the generational sociopathy of those people.
Sorry to intrude, but a lot of the link between time it occurred and the perception of when it occurred was skewed.
Civil rights activists, groups, major events, etc were taken in color photos. Color photos existed during the Civil Rights era in the US, however when it came to putting those historically important documents like news papers, magazines, etc color was more expensive and took much longer to print, resulting in the images being saved/published in black and white.
This has had a subconscious social effect primarily because most people still associate black and white images with the very very early 1900s and so it forced time perspective on a lot of people inadvertently.
Meaning people who see a lot of these photos subconsciously link the black and white of the images to being further back in history than they actually were. As some people here have already mentioned, having people look up recent images of historical black figures from the Civil Rights era helps break that internal skewment, as does finding the original color images- though many of these are hard to find.
Unfortunately, this is only really going to sway people who do actually want to be a better person/grow and develop. It will not make a dent on those that prefer their head in the ground or prefer to be hate mongering ass hats.
Which is funny. I've ended up seeing more early color photography than I have from the 60s, even including my own family photos. There's actually quite a lot out there.
It's wild how those dark chapters linger in plain sight. It’s a reminder tht history isn’t as distant as we think!!
Ruby Bridges is only a few years older than my parents.
This isn't ancient history. As much as America pretends otherwise...
My Aunt could not get married in our city because interracial marriages were banned until 1968. She’s still alive today.
Anne Frank, MLJ JR, and my grandmother were all born in the same year. My grandmother is still alive.
My grandmother was native and she used to tell me stories about going to the vet for her teeth.
As a sweet 16 gift they gave her dentures because it was way better for poor people back then to just have false teeth than afford real dental care.
Imagine getting all your teeth removed at 16 and thinking its a GIFT and being grateful for it?
As a kid lived in Florida, doing the summer break we travel to Alabama. We always would leave at first light about 5:30/6:00 am. About 3 or more cars with our family members in each car. Each car had food, water, gas a guns. As a kid I was just happy to go on a road trip. I didn't no why we did the thing we did going to Alabama or returning to Florida. In my teens one of the last times we drove to Alabama, I learned why we leave between 5:30 /6;00 am, packed food, water and guns. This was late 1960' s early 1970's, blacks traveling at night in Florida or Alabama was targets for people who just wanted to harm or kill blacks. The police was was also just as dangerous as the general white public. I remember the no blacks allowed signs, the water fountains, segregation, just because the government made a law in nineteen sixty three, didn't mean people followed the law and treated blacks as American citizens. Was this the time America was great?
I’m just middle aged white guy who came across this post and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of someone having to go to the fucking VET to get dental care just because they are black. And it’s not that I’ve never thought about how fucked up everything was/is but when you start to think about the smaller every day things that others go through it hits different. Idk wtf I’m saying I’m high rn and this just got me
Quantum Leap is worth a watch. See Sam leap into different eras and face the persecutions of the day. It touches on all the horrible things.
My kids’ mind were blown learning about Ruby Bridges, and how people treated her as a freaking child. Like absolutely blown that adults could collectively be that cruel and abusive to a child.
Their minds were further blown to be told that she is still alive, and still advocating for equality. And, still suffering PTSD from what was done to her.
This is why it's so hard to get older Black people to go to the doctor, esp. the Dentist. even when they really need to go. They've seen too much. My uncle would pull his own teeth with pliers. 🤷🏾♀️
they wouldn't numb your mouth, neither.
“That was so long ago” *Is actually just two people ago
The vet!? Fucking hell, sometimes I hate learning.
They don’t teach this in school. And yet, the MAGA crowd thinks that what is actually being taught already goes too far, because some white kids might feel shame.
It's time like these I feel like a fool trying to convince loved ones to trust the institution of medicine, black people really do have EXTREMELY valid reasons for distrust even if it leads to things like conspiracy and anti-intellectualism it's just
the experimentation and torture are so recent. how can i blame my folks
Maybe the movies should show all the ugly stuff that normally doesn’t get shown. Be explicit and graphic and unapologetic. Show it the way Spielberg showed the Holocaust in Schindler’s List. It needs to be seen by the younger generations to remember the struggle
That people have trouble grasping the proximity of these evil practices is proof that the erasure in our schools is working. My FATHER went to segregated schools until HIGH SCHOOL. It is not ancient history. And every time another precedent is stripped away, I become more horrified at how quickly we’re going back. These are truly terrifying times.
Aside from my time in the military, I've lived my entire life inthe South (AL & TX). Down here, it's hard to forget. The reminders are still very present. Sundown towns, lynching, etc.... still here/happening. My Dad is 70yrs old. I've heard his stories about banks closing his accounts and taking his money because "n*****s ain't supposed to have no money"
or how hard it was to get a home loan, in 1989, even though he had worked for the city of Mtn Brook (wealthiest suburb of Birmingham) for 7yrs.
Damn. I’m white and I’ve been actively trying to unlearn/learn real history. Every time I think that is the worst, I read something like this.
Yet I also know, there’s more.
I’m a Xennial (early 80s baby) in Texas and Houston ISD didn’t officially desegregate till after I was born.
Houston has an amazing and huge medical center today, but when I was a baby, if you were a black patient that needed a referral to a cardiologist or oncologist, your referral would often get sat on, lost, or withheld for months.
Man every now and then I start to think I get it. Then I realize I dont when I learn more, then I think Im starting to get it again.
Then I see stuff like this on this sub and its like... I dont think I'll ever truly get it.
The everyday horror of having what are basically your body parts kept as a trophy. Like this was just to get a tooth pulled and thats the experience you have.
Why?? What is this beyond fucked up dynamic? Its so sick. And those kids that got those teeth as a gift, how old are they now? In their 50s or 60s?
Its like something out of a horror movie and its like the lived experience of what like one generation ago?
Yo wtf
Jesus fucking Christ that's horrific
Chris Rock looks a lot like Neal Brennan.
I’ve been scrolling looking for someone to comment on the photo
That dentist probably has grandkids. You don’t need to be a dentist to get your own keepsake.
One of the Clinton 12 just passed away a couple days ago. She was 84
I’m a teacher and always remind my students that my dad went to a segregated school.
As a white man:
I've learned something today and I'm at a loss for words for how horrified I am.
My parents talk about going to the dentist as kids and them pulling their teeth instead of treating the problem. They're both in their 70's now so that would have been somewhere in the 50's.
And so many fucking fucks will say SLaVeRy EnDeD LoNg aGo as if day 1 black folks were treated equally and to this goddam day people live with the generational trauma and tangible financial, residential, educational etc etc effects. People are so stupid and willfully ignorant it hurts
My mom also saw a vet for a dentist, but she was Appalachian and he didn't take any teeth as fucking souvenirs. Jesus, what a psychopath.
Vet… as in animal doctor?
The first little black girl who went to a white school. Isn't she alive and ON FUCKING INSTAGRAM?
This shit didn't happen a thousand years ago.
A reason why school curriculums push math and science above History…they don’t want you to learn how fucked up shit was and/or is
Shit is backsliding real fucking fast right now as well, scary times, be ready
Neal Brennan in the shot is wild… that man will forever catch shots deserved or not.
It’s why i hate gangster movies as well. My brothers was in gangs for half his life and they don’t show what really it’s about. Only the good, the fun, and the fall
My grandfather openly speaks about seeing/encountering the Klan and how he was the only Black student or very few in the whole school and how they were ceaselessly called all kinds of derogatory and racist terms simply because they were Black and unafraid.
Everyone should know this. And it didn’t happen hundreds of years ago either.
My grandma remembers her father talking about Ruby Bridges at the breakfast table when she was a kid. Ruby's only 5 years younger than her.
I wish they’d stop calling history because a lot of things still happen. Once you know the design of the racial hierarchy and WHY the categories were created, you can’t unsee it and view society as you once did…
and fscism is so back nowadays
Holy cow, the level humans dehumanize each other is truly horrifying
What the fuck.
Holy shit...
What the fuck