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its crazy how ppl in the south assume their grandparents couldn’t have been racist like...my BLACK grandma, not great grandma, my moms mom, is alive and well at 78. segregation didn’t end until 1964, she was 16. SOMEBODY had to be doing it! like be so fr😭
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Anonymous 3w

I can’t say same because my grandad was in the Klan and my parents thankfully didn’t hide it from me.

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Ruby Bridges is still alive. Her mom, Lucille Bridges, only just died in 2020. Can you imagine being the mother of a grade schooler sending her to class with military police and national guard to protect her from the violent and threatening crowd as she entered her empty classroom… Now imagine being that little girl subjected to those threats and thrown items, and being alive to see this shit TODAY. That’s Ruby Bridges. She’s younger than the president.

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Anonymous 3w

I don’t have to assume my older family members couldn’t have been racist, they still are. It is a challenge to converse with my great uncle for more than a minute before he starts rambling about Mexicans.

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Anonymous 3w

Doesn’t even have to be grandparents who are old enough to experience it. My mom and auntie were born in the White and Black wards of the same segregated hospital

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

They also, thankfully, made it clear that the Klan was evil from a young age

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Anonymous 3w

you love jerking off?

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Anonymous 3w

i never said that. i said that people who assume no one older in their families could have possibly been racist, when i have a grandmother who is not decrepit who fully remembers and grew up in the segregationist south is naive af, because there are ppls grandparents who were also there at that time. so if you dont know explicitly that they WERENT involved, its not unreasonable to question if they were…reading is fundamental 😘

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

funny enough, if youve ever heard of the little rock 9, thats my moms alma mater. 20ish years after it happened but. that happened in 1957 and my grandma lived in arkansas all her life. she would’ve been 9 at the time. like ppl dont think some of the children that were students or the kids of parents who were there screaming at black children for integrating the school are still alive??? like look at the photos? there were kids in that crowd lmao u thought they just vanished???

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

thats crazyyyyy. but yeah im glad they not only told you, but taught u better. i fear thats not what happened across a lot of the south, or it was the exact opposite and encouraged. which unfortunately explains a lottttt about how things are down here today😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Oh god yeah. I see it with my cousins who stayed in same Parish as my granddad. There are just as many Confederate flags as there are American flags in some parts of that Parish.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

parish? as in louisiana? bc if so good god. im right next door but thats a state that even though its less than a 6hr drive, we only fly to lmao. not even worth it😬

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Yep. I was lucky enough that my mom made it out of that Parish, I grew up in a relatively decent part of the State. That part of the family lives on the border between the “Cajun” area and the more WASPY, racist side of the state. The only worse parts of Louisiana are the areas filled with the factories that cause the really bad cancer rates.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

I learned one of the towns we’d pass through every trip there was a Sundown town in college. Like, it was one of those towns that had a documented “whites only after sundown” signs. Taken down well before I was born but from everything I’ve heard and read shit really hasn’t changed there

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

the crazy thing is that idek which one ur talking about. we drove through anacoco ONCE. and then even prolonged our next trip to avoid it and met pitkin🫠 and thats just west LA lmao. its sketchy for sureee

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

and theres MORE. which is why we fly lmao, driving through east texas and west louisiana…we’re quick to book that delta flight when we need to go to nola😬

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Oh god I don’t blame you. We never really ventured out to West Louisiana often. If we had to we’d take the quicker route through Shreveport to avoid the really bad parts.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

yeah unfortunately thats our only way of entry driving without going too far out of the way. and east texas is just as bad so. we just cut that out of the equation 😬😭

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