I found this advertisement placard in a vinyl album, and decided to play the card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams

Edit pictures of the card https://pixelfed.ca/p/bane_killgrind/821853386900164062

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

I don't mean this in a negative way but I'm so sick of the narrative that skin color has anything to do with people's capabilities.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Brown skinned and for present day things I'd say race shouldn't matter... But for fucking 1893? Just 30 years after the civil war? Can you imagine the challenges they faced in society during that time? It was probably double or triple as hard to get where they were vs if a white man had followed the same path.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    It has seemed for years that, with a large population of people with a superiority complex over others, Americans keep feeling the need to convince everyone that non-white people are, and have always been, just as useful and talented as white people.

    Another take is "Breaking! People achieve things.. And some of those people have skin tones darker than pure ivory. Amaze!"

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ditto but for me it's the constant men vs women sex rage bait

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