I just... I'm hearing the audio right, right?
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I can deal with fast talkers. It's the "LOL wut?" of the words that's throwing me off.https://twitter.com/auhsdbond/status/1075226856146624512 …
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How do you pack that much stupidity in so few words?? First, the idea Jim Crow wasn't "socially imposed" is empirically false. NC law didn't require Woolworth's to segregate their lunch counter.
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Second, government imposition *is* social imposition. That's the nature of a democracy, and why the "but with minority rights" needs to be tacked onto "majority rule"
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"Not exceptionally bright" is one way of putting ithttps://twitter.com/dock2323/status/1075228374249955328 …
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A Los Angeles hipster giving "lessons" on North Carolina history is f*cking hilarious. It boggles my mind.
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Black folk, and Native Americans, had separate seating at restaurants No state law required that
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Wanted to go to the movies? Black folk and Native Americans had to sit in the balconies No state law required that
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Wanted to lobby for better schools for your kids? Black folk and Native Americans had to join the North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, because they weren't allowed in the white org No state law required that
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Wanted to swim? The private pools were segregated No state law required that
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Needed medical care? The private hospitals were segregated No state law required that
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Needed to die? The f*cking burial plots were segregated – there's still one on land that's since been acquired by UNC Chapel Hill, across the street from the soccer field No state law required that
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Need a loan from the bank? Segregated redlining Labor union? Segregated membership Housing? Segregated covenants
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Literally none of that was mandated by any state or federal law It was "socially imposed" – and sustained precisely because government actors permitted it to continue while private actors refused to budge
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You obviously haven't read the "Jim Crow laws" entry on Wikipediahttps://twitter.com/tom_hynes/status/1075233017314983938 …
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Entirely accurate. That was the whole point behind The Negro Motorist Green Book – black families knowing where they could go on vacation so they wouldn't end up killedhttps://twitter.com/tivon/status/1075236065621856256 …
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The Lumbee here weren't federally recognized until 1956, even though they'd been recognized by the state since 1885 https://twitter.com/brettachapman/status/1075238520690757633 …
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You're also white. Of course you're fine with private discrimination, because the effects don't affect you substantivelyhttps://twitter.com/tom_hynes/status/1075240503812059136 …
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The echoes of Jim Crow still reverberate pretty strongly here. The Wilmington Insurrection, the Sit-In Movement, McKissick v Carmichael, a long long list https://twitter.com/jfpgaffney/status/1075240791637876736 …
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WaPo did a deep dive on segregation today. When the "government imposed" version is illegal. The idea it's not "socially imposed" is fatuous. [h/t
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I'm telling you man, the tapestry of this country is stunning in many ways https://twitter.com/jfpgaffney/status/1075255898161917952 …
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Hell James Meredith is still very much alive, and he got shothttps://twitter.com/curdsofcheese/status/1075260200247062528 …
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It's been one of those dayshttps://twitter.com/thejournalista/status/1075259862131429376 …
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The problem is that one often begets the other. Had I not gone to an HBCU, I could've easily continued living my life oblivious to the world around mehttps://twitter.com/mravantcentre/status/1075265393147740160 …
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The FHA institutionalized it with their "security maps" in the 1930s, but the practice existed before thenhttps://twitter.com/samthegeek/status/1075367259869196288 …
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It wasn't officially termed "redlining" until the 1960s
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It was a contributor, but not an originator. The practice was already commonplace by the time the FHA passed, but that in turn amplified it everywhere because it effectively created new federal guidelines for discriminationhttps://twitter.com/rob_lorenz/status/1075359466948833280 …
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Pre-FHA, each bank had its own collateral criteria that just totally coincidentally (::wink::) tended to exclude black neighborhoods. Post-FHA, there were now "security maps" in 200+ cities that explicitly designated black neighborhoods as unsafe for investment
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