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      9 months ago

      No, I know this happens, I just don’t get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?

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        I just don’t get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?

        The first black student to enroll in a white high school, following desegregation.

        The current Republican frontrunner’s primary voting base.

        It’s the same generation in both images. The first image is Elizabeth Eckford, one of the first black students to enroll in Little Rock high school following desegregation in 1957. Notice that she’s surrounded by a crowd of angry white students. The second image is Donald Trump’s primary voting base.

      • How many generations ago was brutal, undiluted systemic racism accepted? ‘Bout 2.5. it takes a while to fix, given that segregationists instilled such strong feelings into their progeny. It’s easier to break something than to fix it, most especially when someone is actively working to obstruct the repair. It takes 2 seconds to pop a tire and 20 minutes to change.

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          it takes a while to fix

          This is reality I know, but it’s unacceptable, this kind of racism needs to be punished harder, to make racists understand their behavior is unacceptable.