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.
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.
In honor of NWA, Fuck The Police!
This guy is a stand up dude.
He wasn’t, as housing discrimination was illegal. He was sentenced, later overturned, for sedition, for trying to start a race war as part of a supposed communist plot
And everyone knows that if something is illegal it can’t happen.
I saw ‘BHM’ and read it as ‘big handsome men’. Was confused for a bit.
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.
“Here is his mugshot, taken at 19 years of age.”
