HarryLime [any]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • Oh okay, I guess the parents of the founder of the Black Panthers named their kid after a guy who was worse in terms of segregation than surrounding states for some weird reason.

    His initial gubernatorial campaign uniquely amongst Louisiana politicians tried to both-sides the KKK. He refused to hire black people for any higher positions because then white people would have to use words like “Mister” to refer to them.

    Sorry, but you can’t make the claim that he was “He was literally, and I do mean literally, measurably worse in terms of segregation than surrounding southern states.” and then support it with actions and words that literally any Jim Crow governor, and probably a fair number of non-southern governors, would have done in the 1930s.