• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Those people are our grandparents.

    Just think about how many of your sweet doting grandparents were in situations just like this that weren’t photographed.

    How many of our grandparents strung the rope for the lynch mob?

    How many of our grandparents were hurling racial slurs at the tops of their lungs?

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    “These black people are a nuisance, and they’re everywhere.”
    But YOU brought them here! Against their will. At gunpoint.
    “I’m gonna pretend I didn’t hear that. gOd bLeSS aMeRiCa MaKe GrAtE aGin… oR sUmPTiN’ LiKe ThAt.”

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    4 hours ago

    Did they really need to change their family name to Counts just to prove she belonged in school, though?

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    Seems like every time white people get a chance to show their inferiority and inferiority complexes, they jump headfirst into it.
    These are the people who used to vote Democrat, then when the Equal Rights Act was passed, they flocked towards the republican party.

    This is what reagan leaned on when kickstarting his 1980 presidential campaign, deep in the south, political fanfare with a dog whistle, the following exact words: “Make America great again.”

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        16 hours ago

        Only one boy in that horrible photograph did ask Dorothy for forgiveness. They became good friends. He died in 2010.

        Shame it seems hate fueled mfs live forever.

        • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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          16 hours ago

          Good for that guy. I don’t really fault kids like that for terrible beliefs. But I do fault them as they age and fail to reconsider the shitty things their community taught them.

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            15 hours ago

            I hear you. I did not reply as a fwiw to redeem this shit, as it does not bring any redemption on how awful she must have felt on that moment and afterwards. It is more a snide on how many racist mfs are out there getting older than they should. Not only in the US, but my home country is riddled with these fokkers today.

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    19 hours ago

    this photo always makes me so sad… make sure to show it to all your white friends.