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[–] 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fact that white people hated the civil rights movement so much they actually rioted (often harnessing that anger on school busing programs) has been completely memory holed and we all just sorta pretend like it never happened. Even as someone who likes to read history, I don’t really know all that much about it. But I assume it never gets brought up in history class or society at large because it spoils the narrative of “MLK Jr gave a speech, we passed a law, and now we have total equality and racism had been defeated”.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago

    A lot of people come to the realization that society fought MLK, watched him die and then said "oh! oh! I agreed with him the whole time"

    But it's worse. What they really said was "He agreed with me the whole time"

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yup. After MLK ended racism, everyone forgets about how the white people who formed lunch mobs and bombed people are still walking around, probably shopping for tomatoes next to you.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    how the white people who formed lunch mobs

    They still do on Sundays.

    spoilerSorry if this is inappropriate I just wanted to make fun of rude white people after church

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