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“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17967345

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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I don't understand what the image is depicting exactly, there's one black person in the picture and she's sitting there while that guy is about to drip something on the head of the woman next to her?

Is it a picture of white people bullying a group for having a black friend?

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  • [–] 102 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    This is from the Woolworth's sit-in, where people sat at the segregated lunch counter in protest.
    Other people who did not like this verbally and physically abused them.

    https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-anne-moody-20150211-story.html

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Also, the white guy covered in dessert is presumably an ally there to show solidarity and, judging by the size of him, also physically protect them if necessary.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I hope that wasn't their plan or they'd have found out very quickly that size is a great advantage 1 on 1 but a bigger advantage is being 2 on 1.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah but who wants to be the first one to be punched in the face by that big lad before he's overpowered by the numbers advantage?

    One big dude can be enough of a deterrent against people taking things too far.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Lunch counters were segregated in the US. A fairly common protest was black folk sitting at lunch counters and trying to order lunch. This often causes uproar and unrest, riots. I believe the woman who's about to have water poured on her head is black, it's just that the picture makes her look white, or she's fairly passing.

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

    I think the woman with water poured on her is white and sitting with the black woman.

    My understanding of the two sides were the white people attacking them and the white people sitting with a black person to protest segregation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    IMO that's why it's 3 sides.

    The first side is the black people who want to be able to sit at the same counter as other people and order lunch.

    The second side is the white people who want to keep the apartheid system in place.

    The third side is the white people who were willing to take the abuse in order to be allies to the black people who were facing the discrimination.

    To me, the allies are a different group. They are putting themselves in harm's way for an abstract principle.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    It’s a sit in, protesting laws that said establishments could refuse to serve black people (or serve them horribly,)

    This was the form civil disobedience took, where they would go, make a scene, get arrested, and then argue in court that the law was unjust.

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