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cgod  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Falcon Heights shooting: Woman livestreams aftermath - CNN.com

If the particular time is forever than you have isolated how long we have been regularly killing black people (and any people unlucky enough to bump into a cop on the wrong night) with impunity.





tacocat  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This video is from like 16 years ago

cgod  ·  3064 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And this is from around 100 years ago, in front of a courthouse.

Now I'm just super sad.

It was sold as a postcard.

user-inactivated  ·  3064 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuck the postcards, man. They used to hand these out to the colored folk passing through town in parts of Texas, Alabama, Georgia etc. The Green Book was a thing that NEEDED to exist.

It was not until 1967 that inter-racial couples could get married in the US and have those unions recognized by states like Virginia and California and New York. That is (barely) in my lifetime.