• @[email protected]
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    105 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?

  • @[email protected]
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    44 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    65 hours ago

    “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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    5 hours ago

    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.”

  • @[email protected]
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    6920 hours ago

    Crazy to think this was as late as 1957. Now that the US has one of those harassing kids behind the wheel, you should be back in the '50s within a couple of years, yeah?

    • Kokesh
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      1619 hours ago

      And they are making it great again!

      • kindenough
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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1416 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.

          • kindenough
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            515 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.

  • @droporain
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    1719 hours ago

    Those kids in the picture could be in their 70s and still be judges, and politicians.

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        16 hours ago

        “Could be” also you think them two boys in right hand corner are teenagers. Lol live a little believe in my magic. Remember she was 15 in the pictures.