Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?

• GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some live a more sheltered life, and there’s always a varying degree of racism in different areas.

  My experience was of becoming an adult right around that time, which just meant other adults were now suddenly ok being openly racist around me, and boy did they have a lot to say around that time.

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  • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I am talking about national news … remember the Obama sock monkeys?

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    • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Holy crap haha. No, I either forgot or dont remember and had to look it up. Man, they didn’t even wait for the man to get in office before selling racist memorabilia.

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      • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        YUP it was really bad, and then half the country turned extra racist, the other half pretended racism was solved because we had a black president.

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  • Tinidril@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My experience as a suburban white kid growing up in the Reagan era was that racism was just something to learn about in history class. Part of me really misses being that naive.

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