Post AWBq7GR408yfiJBdNw by goodthinking@beige.party
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 (DIR) Post #AWBq5ETWJq4l3RMoim by doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world
       2023-05-30T14:35:13Z
       
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       "In the first six months after World War I there were twenty-eight public lynchings, and at least seven Black army veterans were murdered while still wearing their uniforms. “The very uniform on a Negro was to the reactionary like a red rag thrown in the face of a bull,” historian Carter G. Woodson wrote. “Negro soldiers clamoring for equality and justice were beaten, shot down, and lynched, to terrorize the whole Black population.”"Matthew F. Delmont, Half American
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBq6TlEyL0CkhFYX2 by morganalafee@mastodon.scot
       2023-05-30T16:10:46Z
       
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       @doctorjaymarie    Maybe the physical lynchings have decreased….. but the psychological and emotional lynchings are still prevalent especially with the military arming of the “police” ….. fear, lack of proper training and institutionalized racism…..where’s the freedom, life, liberty and happiness??????
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBq7GR408yfiJBdNw by goodthinking@beige.party
       2023-05-30T17:03:02Z
       
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       @morganalafee @doctorjaymarie Ymmv, but I count the GOP environmental terrorism visited on Flint, Michigan over the last decade as a form of violence against PoC. For those unfamiliar, Republicans re-engineered the water system there to use a non-potable, lead-toxic source. Years of poisoned children with potentially ruined lives. The smallpox blanket gift of our era.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBq7uzrCCZnVnlzAe by thepoliticalcat@mstdn.social
       2023-05-30T17:36:06Z
       
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       @goodthinking @morganalafee @doctorjaymarie Please don't forget Jackson, MO, which has had funds earmarked for fixing its water systems at least once - funds that have subsequently been stolen and diverted for other uses by the (white) Governors of the state.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBq8hoXh3dmutr8q0 by goodthinking@beige.party
       2023-05-30T17:38:29Z
       
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       @thepoliticalcat @morganalafee @doctorjaymarie Yeah. Flint was the dress rehearsal, I guess. Remarkably little reporting on this (just like with Flint, really).
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBqA99XXCJpznMfQG by thepoliticalcat@mstdn.social
       2023-05-30T17:41:11Z
       
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       @goodthinking @morganalafee @doctorjaymarie Fortunately, the Guardian is carrying the story, so at least those who count to ten on their toes might miss it but the rest of us should have no problem.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBqA9rUtlTsC7vlwG by goodthinking@beige.party
       2023-05-30T17:47:32Z
       
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       @thepoliticalcat @morganalafee @doctorjaymarie Well I’m glad the UK has our back at least. Jiminy tap dancing crickets! :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBqAAUqXSxMAALCGu by c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza
       2023-05-30T18:32:29Z
       
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       @goodthinking @thepoliticalcat @morganalafee @doctorjaymarie The Guardian and Al Jazeera have the best independent news about the US, followed by Deutsche Welle. I have all three on my RSS feed.Sad that we have to read the foreign press to learn about racism in the US, but they are outside, looking in (usually in horror).