Comment on How did old-money people of color maintain their wealth through racist times?

disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or got bombed to hell

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tulsa and Wilmington are two examples of reactions to black people starting to build themselves up, as per the American Dream.

    And as an NC grade school student, do you think Wilmington was mentioned at all in any history class? But we learned all the governor names...

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    • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the “war on drugs.”

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      • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, classic Nixon. Pimped by Nancy and Ronald McDonald

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