• assaultpotato
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    4 months ago

    What’s wild to me is that legal segregation was like, not that long ago at all. It always feels like it’s taught as ancient history but it was only half a lifetime ago, really… and still ongoing. It’s not like this happened a thousand years ago and “you should really be over it by now”, this was the experience of some people’s still living grandparents and parents.

    The idea that an entire demographic of people should magically recover and be equals again after like 30 years of half-assed “equality” after literal generations of slavery is fucking wild.

    Absolute goblin energy to not recognize the ongoing effects of such a recent thing.

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      4 months ago

      I’m pretty young and my mom has told me stories about when the token black kid was bussed into her Oklahoma school because of legal requirements. She’s not even retired yet. Passing a law doesn’t magically fix things overnight. It takes time AND community effort to enact social changes

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        I’m in my late 30s, and my older brother went to a different elementary school than I did because of the city’s integration program. I went to the school up the street in our neighborhood; he was bussed to the inner city.

        We’re not nearly as far from the effects of racism as the racists want us to believe.