When my grandmother was 10 in 1932, there were still Civil War veterans walking around, along with people who were literally born into slavery. She was 43 when the Civil Rights Act was passed, and she lived until 2015. This history is very recent
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at one of the last food festivals i went to, i had the pleasure and privilege of chatting with an older woman who went to elementary school during desegregation. she taught me a lot about being yourself in spite of society, sometimes specifically to spite society. it turned out she was from one town over from me. she was a hoot and a half and we forgot to exchange names and contact info after chatting for three hours. i'm hoping she's there this year again.
We can't even remember 1939 or 1929. Why would we remember 1865?
That picture is sad, of course, but how sad was the guy who designed that. Whites? sure big bowl, colored? Tiny bowl... How sad a man you have to be to be THAT petty
Racism truly is brain rot
You know how it's often said that the cruelty is the point? Always has been.
I think I usually understand the motivation behind the racism. I disagree with it and I oppose it, but at least I think I can explain it to myself that "ok I guess this is happening in their heads, that's why they act like that". But this ... just always blows my mind. Like what, you can't use the same sink as a black man? Do you think that black people has a lepper or something? What the hell is your problem man?
You are underestimating how racist people were (and some still are). To them it would be like drinking from their dog's water bowl
I've literally watched my racist aunt feed her dog off the same fork she was eating with.
Disgust is a far more dangerous mass emotion than fear or hatred. Disgust is what drove the nazis to use try to 'exterminate' the jewish people and other of their undesirables.
It's about dehumanization. That was the point.
The wages of whiteness. They feel good about themselves so long as black people are under them.
It's the conservatism "there must be outgroups"
The cruelty is and always has been the point. They want you to feel less than.
As a nation, you have arguably ALWAYS been divided.
There's always one.
White people have never been so divided
Except of course when they were shooting each other with rifles and Cannon in 1864.
Hasn't been true since the 19th century.
As a white nationalist bourgeoise, we have never been more divided.
Class traitors everywhere! The college marxists are making my blue-blooded kids go woke!!
"So divided" as in "divided like this." Not "as divided as this." We literally went to war with ourselves.
Even still, its not like we didn't do exactly this almost exactly 100 years ago. We just didn't have AI. Still had fake news though.
Yeah this is what they want to go back to.
Didn't something happen around 1861 to 1865?
Political division, calcification, and even violence was actually much higher in the first decade of the 20th century and didn’t fade until the US joined WW1 in earnest.
Not devided like that. The whites are devided is what they mean.
"The whites" literally went to war over slavery. What they mean is "the conservative whites"