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re: On this day in history: The wealthiest black community in the US was destroyed
Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:32 pm to RDRGeaux09
Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:32 pm to RDRGeaux09
It's so hard for me to believe just how ruthless and hateful our country was back then. I mean, it really wasn't that long ago that we didn't even share water fountains with blacks or allow them to eat in the same restaurants as us. It's crazy to think about and truly a black eye on our nations history.
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Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:44 pm to supadave3
I learned about this event a few years ago. The whole thing, from start to finish was unbelievable. And, it was like 60 years after the Civil War.
And yes. There is A LOT of history like that that we do not know anything about. The way that black people were treated in America pre-1970 was overall rather barbaric.
Read Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. Basically says that the steel industry in and around Birmingham was built by what was essentially slave labor between 1880-1940. Lots of injustice there.
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And yes. There is A LOT of history like that that we do not know anything about. The way that black people were treated in America pre-1970 was overall rather barbaric.
Read Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. Basically says that the steel industry in and around Birmingham was built by what was essentially slave labor between 1880-1940. Lots of injustice there.
LINK
Posted on 6/1/14 at 1:49 pm to supadave3
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It's so hard for me to believe just how ruthless and hateful our country was back then
Yep. I have family that I know was involved in crazy racist bullshite back in the 50's and 60's. Heard rumors a distant cousin had set a black church on fire.
And the most amazing part is that 99% of the white people involved in shite like this all would have said they were Christians.
All of these people in this day and age always bitch about how the world was so much better back in the good ole days can shove it up their arse. We are a much better country these days.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 2:31 pm to supadave3
quote:Thank God we've progressed to the Knockout Game
It's so hard for me to believe just how ruthless and hateful our country was back then
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