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zentrum

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24. Yup. It's still here

Reply to brush (Reply #19)

Fri Nov 23, 2018, 07:18 PM

Nov 2018

....in red-lining, police shootings, longer sentences for black people for the same crimes, lowered expectations, lack of neighborhood services and micro-aggressions all day every day that remind black people of their "place">

The only name that's changed is that Jim Crow is now called White Nationalism and it's in the White House.

Or--the name has changed, but the spirit of this devil is still alive and well, systemmically.

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Jim Crow is alive, well, and still fucking up America [View all] Cyrano Nov 2018 OP

GOP voter suppression is not new Gothmog Nov 2018 #1

One point of clarification ... VMA131Marine Nov 2018 #2

Wasn't 1964 the year the dixiecrats bolted to the repug party? brush Nov 2018 #7

1968 is by many considered to be the year the roles reversed The Mouth Nov 2018 #12

No. Jim Crow is not alive and well. GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #3

Of course it is. You think they weren't legally suppressing votes back then? brush Nov 2018 #13

All those things are disgusting and should be fought. GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #15

Jim Crow was just a term used for systemic racism. brush Nov 2018 #16

Jim Crow was not a term for racism. GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #18

Ok, it was term for systemic racism. brush Nov 2018 #19

Well, we will just have to disagree GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #20

Yup. It's still here zentrum Nov 2018 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author zentrum Nov 2018 #22

I think we weren't anywhere near hard enough on the south 47of74 Nov 2018 #4

...OR...maybe we have let so many of them suffer in poverty with low wages and no jobs flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #5

I'm not saying now. I'm saying in the aftermath of the Civil War we should have been a bit firmer 47of74 Nov 2018 #6

You are second guessing Abraham Lincoln? Tipperary Nov 2018 #9

Yes I am. 47of74 Nov 2018 #11

Yes. They were traitors and there should have been hangings. brush Nov 2018 #14

The fact is most Northerners got tired of keeping troops in the south GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #17

Most of the North at the time... zentrum Nov 2018 #25

Thanks for posting. In Georgia the Kemp and the repugs didn't even bother to hide their... brush Nov 2018 #8

Nor did Ohio or Wisconsin. It is a problem everywhere republicans govern. GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #21

No mention of why the Electoral College as a result? maddiemom Nov 2018 #10

Exactly. That's a real example zentrum Nov 2018 #27

What are some things you think people should do about it? oberliner Nov 2018 #23

Southern Exposure struggle4progress Nov 2018 #26

I have personally confronted racists and a Nazi this year. guillaumeb Nov 2018 #28

Yellow people? virgogal Nov 2018 #29

Unfortunately, sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Firestorm49 Nov 2018 #30

Will it change in our lifetimes? Cyrano Nov 2018 #31

Great initial post and great posts afterwards. SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #32

K&R ck4829 Nov 2018 #33