My sister lives in US and told me that there are two schools in her town: the “mostly white” one and the worse one. Kids go to one or another based on their address. She said that her kids went to the better school and she had to prove her residence only once and then no one bothered her anymore. Latinos were asked to prove their residence every year. Penalty for sending your kid to the better school while living in the worse part of town? Jail. This is still happening in US today.
Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago
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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 hours ago
deHaga@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
He wasn’t, as housing discrimination was illegal, he was sentenced for sedition, for trying to start a race war as part of a supposed communist plot
Barracuda@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
The charges were very much because they were looking for any possible reason to put him behind bars for the act of buying that house.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And everyone knows that if something is illegal it can’t happen.
frog@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
In honor of NWA, Fuck The Police!
This guy is a stand up dude.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
My mother was born in the mid-1930s and from time to time she likes to talk about “the good ol’ days” of her childhood when people respected each other blah blah blah. I remind her of the horrific racism and she’s like “but I didn’t even know any black people!” lol.
sheridan@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I saw ‘BHM’ and read it as ‘big handsome men’. Was confused for a bit.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
“Big Handsome Men in you local area want to help you. Click now!”
scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I had to explain to my mother the other day that this used to happen so often, even my Grandpa had a side hustle as a Navy commander to help buy his sailors’ land, because VA loan or not, they wouldn’t loan to some of them. And that was from the 60’s to the 80’s.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
“Here is his mugshot, taken at 19 years of age.”
Soulphite@reddthat.com 18 hours ago
Scarier still this mindset is creeping back.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
Never left.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Quarantined to mostly one party, but never cured.