Current Events > Jim crow era is a really a black eye on america.

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I can't believe how bad racism was back then.

Up until the North wiped the shit outta the south in the civil war.

Jim crow was booming in america.

If I was taken back to that time

and to think in texas in the 50s 60s

It still was very strong in the racist south

my grandma told me she saw jim crow signs in the restaurants and that It was true.

This was less than 100 years ago.

i understand there pain it sucks america did this to them.

it's appaling and to think the capitol incident was somehow charged by jim crow supporters

because we did see a conferdate flag in the white house again which stands for jim crow era politcs and support.

read up on it
I dived in a lil and i had to stop.......because it's so bad.

Trump must never be president and latino voters need to stick to the democrats cause it seems like there the last sane party in america.

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well yes

but i mean

slavery was pretty bad too
maybe worse

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Yea. I've never been to the South but I think some of that shit was still going on into my lifetime (born in 81)

It all sounds so messed up. The first episode of Lovecraft Coubtry deals heavily in that stuff and it's pretty shocking to think that isn't actually made up. It really happened

Tbh America has a lot of black eyes.

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ReggieBush09 posted...

Up until the North wiped the shit outta the south in the civil war.

They did, but the South still ended up getting much of what they wanted in the aftermath.

Hell, land promised to former Black slaves were instead given to former Confederate generals.

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according to some videos.

It was widely accepted and okay'd by a america and corporate america.

which is just like what?

There's like even more stuff about this.....Then just politics it's deeper than that.

I never knew that the uncle bens and aunt jemima were symbols of it.


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Lmao they bombed an entirely successful black society. Jim Crow era is just day 1 of what the black community has had to go through.

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This is one of the reasons I dislike it when stories set in the past try to gloss over history for the sake of audience comfort. It's difficult to get people to acknowledge the presence of racism in the present when you try to pretend it didn't exist in the past.

its absolute proof that they dont want any minorities or any poor people succeeding in life

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Jim Crow is gone, but the streets are still littered with his feathers.

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/louisiana-cemetery-apologizes-after-black-deputy-denied-burial/U6CG74K62VCP7LDDLIZYCETY5I/

A cemetery in Louisiana refused to bury the body of a black police officer because of a decades old "whites only" policy from the 1950s. They finally removed that rule in their bylaws after this incident, but the fact that the employee of the cemetery proudly touted that rule as the reason to refuse the body in 2021 is insane.

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I asked my grandma about it and she said her dad just never brought them around white people

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America really botched Reconstruction. So many Southern officials should have been hanged but they weren't because America is rotten at its core and has never cared about doing the right thing.

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Thanks captain obvious

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Thanks captain obvious

I found out about this era.

besides the civil rights movement or slavery.

I never knew what jim crow was until I saw a video.

this is not something openly taught

It's a digusting era. which needs to be reveled to all

I didn't understand why but after the capitol incident I looked more into the history of what these trumpers were doing and it's really pathetic the GOP is gonna let TRUMP slide. after inciting a race war.

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Conflict posted...

Um, they literally teach people about the Jim Crow era in elementary school. Did you not learn about MLK?

it definitely depends on where you grew up unfortunately

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Conflict posted...

Um, they literally teach people about the Jim Crow era in elementary school. Did you not learn about MLK?

It depends on where you grow up. A lot of places in the south don't teach about it. I wouldn't be surprised if other places in the US didn't teach about it, either.

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America must be a potato given how many eyes we must have in order for enough to be black.

CableZL posted...

It depends on where you grow up. A lot of places in the south don't teach about it. I wouldn't be surprised if other places in the US didn't teach about it, either.

I grew up in New Hampshire. Only ever really learned about Jim Crow as the name of "a bad thing" between learning more details about the Civil War and more details about the Civil Rights movement.

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CableZL posted...

Jim Crow is gone, but the streets are still littered with his feathers.

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/louisiana-cemetery-apologizes-after-black-deputy-denied-burial/U6CG74K62VCP7LDDLIZYCETY5I/

A cemetery in Louisiana refused to bury the body of a black police officer because of a decades old "whites only" policy from the 1950s. They finally removed that rule in their bylaws after this incident, but the fact that the employee of the cemetery proudly touted that rule as the reason to refuse the body in 2021 is insane.

at least that racist bitch was fired

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it's called systematic racism.

big govt

gives less funding to where they know those people live. to there healthcare streets housing the whole thing.

It hasn't gone away.

the census is used for Malovent things.

Why would the need to know my race??

it's big govt trolling people.

BLM because it's not equal yet in america.

saying all lives matters is conviction for racism.

because all lives don't matter not just yet.

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TheLiarParadox posted...

America really botched Reconstruction. So many Southern officials should have been hanged but they weren't because America is rotten at its core and has never cared about doing the right thing.

This and history is repeating itself now.

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Conflict posted...

Um, they literally teach people about the Jim Crow era in elementary school. Did you not learn about MLK?

Depends on the school. I grew up in a private, 100% white Christian school and never knew what Jim Crow was until I moved to a public school where I then learned about the white southern perspective of Jim Crow. It took until literally sophomore year high school, when I moved to the PNW, that I actually got a real understanding of what happened. At least one that wasnt white-washed

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All of American history is a black eye on America tbh.

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i dropped outta high school in my third year.

so I lost out on all this stuff.

it sucks man.


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CE didn't watch that cartoon Our Friend, Martin in school and it shows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Friend,_Martin#:~:text=Our%20Friend%2C%20Martin%20is%20an,the%20CBS%2FFox%20Video%20label.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

CE didn't watch that cartoon Our Friend, Martin in school and it shows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Friend,_Martin#:~:text=Our%20Friend%2C%20Martin%20is%20an,the%20CBS%2FFox%20Video%20label.

is it on youtube?

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Zikten posted...

Yea. I've never been to the South but I think some of that shit was still going on into my lifetime (born in 81)

It all sounds so messed up. The first episode of Lovecraft Coubtry deals heavily in that stuff and it's pretty shocking to think that isn't actually made up. It really happened

Canada was still completely fucking natives over in horrible ways during the lifetime of anyone who's even 30.

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ReggieBush09 posted...

is it on youtube?

yeah lol

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Zikten posted...

Yea. I've never been to the South but I think some of that shit was still going on into my lifetime (born in 81)

It all sounds so messed up. The first episode of Lovecraft Coubtry deals heavily in that stuff and it's pretty shocking to think that isn't actually made up. It really happened

It was like that for a large portion of the country, especially as more blacks began migrating from the south to the north during the Great Migration, the north started taking on more Jim Crow-like tactics. A large number of sundown towns like the one in the first couple of episodes of Lovecraft Country were not only in the south, but in the midwest too. There's one in Illinois that my uncle goes out of his way to bypass as he heads back home from Texas to Chicago, it's called Anna, Illinois (really that whole county area). Anna is the town's name but it's most infamously known by its acronym, Ain't No *blanks* Allowed, I'll let y'all fill in the blank.


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ReggieBush09 posted...

this is not something openly taught

They didn't teach you about the civil rights movement in school? Are you american?

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Yeah this is definitely openly taught in like 90% of schools. I grew up in FL and we heard about Jim Crow a lot despite never being taught about things like the Tulsa massacre or Emmett Till.

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The thing about Jim Crow is that talking to my parents who lived through it and my grandparents (RIP) who lived through it. Once it was "over" they were just supposed to act like nothing happened and the perpeTRAITORS -some of whom are still alive - walk around as if they did nothing wrong.

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Jim Crow was so efficient, the Nazis used it to deal with their "undesirables".

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

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2SweetforTurtle posted...

Yeah this is definitely openly taught in like 90% of schools. I grew up in FL and we heard about Jim Crow a lot despite never being taught about things like the Tulsa massacre or Emmett Till.

It's sad that many people learned about the Tulsa massacre from a TV miniseries. Morgan Freeman can fuck right off. We need Black History Month (even though it is the coldest, shortest month of the year).

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Solid Snake07 posted...

They didn't teach you about the civil rights movement in school? Are you american?

They mostly teach a sanitized version in schools. It usually goes Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and school integration, MLK, I Have A Dream, that's it.

I read about Black Wall St., Red Summer of 1919, George Stinney, Emmitt Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, etc on my own time when I was younger, didn't get to actually have a discussion about it until I got to college.

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Conflict posted...

Florida, in spite of geography, is not really considered part of the deep south.

Its still the South regardless. North Florida is hick af and even though I grew up in Central FL my town still had its issues with Neo Nazis and the KKK.

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2SweetforTurtle posted...

Yeah this is definitely openly taught in like 90% of schools.

No it's not.

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America is a black eye on America. How true is any of its over the top propaganda? Lol

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2SweetforTurtle posted...

Yeah this is definitely openly taught in like 90% of schools.

Bro, the discussion and learning of AMERICAN SLAVERY isnt even a universal curriculum in public schools, but you think Jim Crow is?!

just...LOL the privilege is STRONG in some of you.


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Conflict posted...

Florida, in spite of geography, is not really considered part of the deep south.

Eh, the northwestern area of Florida is definitely part of the deep south.

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Conflict posted...

Florida, in spite of geography, is not really considered part of the deep south.

Los Angeles here. Not sure about this one, partner.

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CableZL posted...

Eh, the northwestern area of Florida is definitely part of the south.

orlando and Miami are definitely not the south

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

orlando and Miami are definitely not the south

Neither Orlando or Miami are in the northwestern area of Florida.

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BeantownHero posted...

Bro, the discussion and learning of AMERICAN SLAVERY isnt even a universal curriculum in public schools, but you think Jim Crow is?!

just...LOL the privilege is STRONG in some of you.

wtf Im privileged because I grew up in a state with some of the worst education in the country?


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I live in Louisiana. Was gonna make this topic but I'll just piggyback off this:

Its amazing how many white southerners I talk to who defend the confederate flag. They don't fly it but they genuinely believe its a symbol of their "southern culture". Because they know its looked down upon is why they don't actually rep it. The Mississippi state flag had the confederate symbol in it literally up until this past election.

I've had many conversations about the flag with southerners. The conversation always involves some kind of bullshit about how its misinterpreted.

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