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radical noodle

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51. Many don't want to know

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 11:54 PM

Apr 2018

just as they like to think of slaves as happy people who've been given free room & board. Many white folks have no interest in the crimes against minorities and especially those against African Americans.

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60 Minutes just had a riveting, haunting feature on lynchings [View all] EffieBlack Apr 2018 OP

To this day most non POC are simply ignorant of the history OTHERS have to live in this country Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1

Sorry, white 72 year old white woman here. I have known about this since I was a teenager. dhol82 Apr 2018 #5

Its great that youre so knowledgeable, but Eliots right EffieBlack Apr 2018 #8

Interesting. dhol82 Apr 2018 #16

A surprising number of Americans Susan Calvin Apr 2018 #40

Many don't want to know radical noodle Apr 2018 #51

Your age explains why you know, I think. Susan Calvin Apr 2018 #41

I drove by the KKK bookstore in Pasadena Texas when I was in college Gothmog Apr 2018 #89

Scary! nt Susan Calvin Apr 2018 #90

Powerful reporting! Thank you 60-minutes! Equinox Moon Apr 2018 #2

The memorial in AL is chilling and important superpatriotman Apr 2018 #3

Try the Civil Rights Museum in NC unless you wont go there either. nolabear Apr 2018 #35

Extremely powerful. Hortensis Apr 2018 #65

It was horrific. People dressed in their sunday best to watch people murdered. spanone Apr 2018 #4

That's the exact reason I've never abided by the excuses misanthrope Apr 2018 #45

Have you read this book byDouglas Blackmon malaise Apr 2018 #6

Have you read "The New Jim Crow"? nt tblue37 Apr 2018 #10

It's on my summer list malaise Apr 2018 #11

Another good one is Alice Goffman's "On the Run:Fugitive Life in an American City": tblue37 Apr 2018 #18

Another good one - Answering the Call by Nathaniel Jones EffieBlack Apr 2018 #26

I don't know that one. Thanks for the tip. nt tblue37 Apr 2018 #28

My great grandparents were sharecroppers misanthrope Apr 2018 #46

True. But poor whites had a degree of social mobility that blacks did not have EffieBlack Apr 2018 #53

You're right but that was no guarantee misanthrope Apr 2018 #56

The great migration did not give them the same opportunities. Thats the point EffieBlack Apr 2018 #57

Tangential to that book, check out this one misanthrope Apr 2018 #47

Yes! That's a wonderful book! EffieBlack Apr 2018 #54

Thanks malaise Apr 2018 #60

Yes - one of the best books I've ever read Freddie Apr 2018 #79

So good. byronius Apr 2018 #84

It's what this country was founded on SHRED Apr 2018 #7

I would add malaise Apr 2018 #12

And near constant war. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #34

Yes, we're the evil dregs of the human race. Hortensis Apr 2018 #64

Whataboutism doesnt change the reality of our country EffieBlack Apr 2018 #67

No, but it puts it in better perspective. Hortensis Apr 2018 #73

Here we go - I knew it was only a matter of time before the " Africans had slaves, TOO" dodge EffieBlack Apr 2018 #74

Bingo !! n/t jaysunb Apr 2018 #75

Effie, in order to become what Hortensis Apr 2018 #80

What about what every other country does lunatica Apr 2018 #86

Of course it doesn't absolve Hortensis Apr 2018 #92

Sorry but that is bull EffieBlack Apr 2018 #94

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Apr 2018 #9

Oprah Winfrey was the guest "reporter" on this segment FakeNoose Apr 2018 #13

and that today, the Black population in our prisons ARE A DIRECT RESULT OF RACISM a kennedy Apr 2018 #14

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Apr 2018 #15

Youtube link: Ptah Apr 2018 #17

Thanks! EffieBlack Apr 2018 #19

strange fruit sheshe2 Apr 2018 #20

Ironically, the photo that inspired Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allen) to pen that song misanthrope Apr 2018 #48

And Abe Meeropol and his wife later adopted the two orphaned sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg nt EffieBlack Apr 2018 #55

Frank McManus confessed to raping 4-year old Mina Spear. Galraedia Apr 2018 #21

Youre right! EffieBlack Apr 2018 #29

And maybe worst of all... BobTheSubgenius Apr 2018 #22

I just had a discussion with a Trumpster in-law about that very thing KrazyinKS Apr 2018 #23

Yes, lynching postcards were very common EffieBlack Apr 2018 #30

Thank you for the heads-up, EffieBlack ailsagirl Apr 2018 #24

How uncivilized. In modern white America we have police do it for us. Crash2Parties Apr 2018 #25

One of the things that distinguishes lynchings from other killings is the openness and display of EffieBlack Apr 2018 #31

YES. Tatiana Apr 2018 #49

White Open Carry v. Black Open Carry EffieBlack Apr 2018 #36

This portion is key misanthrope Apr 2018 #44

Well said malaise Apr 2018 #61

It is a disturbing segment, as it should be. Ilsa Apr 2018 #27

I would recommend everyone read the report mountain grammy Apr 2018 #32

EJI and Bryan Stephenson were prominently featured EffieBlack Apr 2018 #37

Lynching was about sending a message. eom guillaumeb Apr 2018 #33

Its a full blown terrorist act lunatica Apr 2018 #87

Yes, it is and was. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #95

Well I doing my bit to change that lunatica Apr 2018 #96

And as horrific as lynching was, it was not the worst thing that was done Ferrets are Cool Apr 2018 #38

Humiliation and degradation of the worst kind were favorite tools EffieBlack Apr 2018 #39

I knew people that witnessed the last public hanging here in the US - they were kids then. tonyt53 Apr 2018 #42

Rainey Bethea... TreasonousBastard Apr 2018 #59

K & R SunSeeker Apr 2018 #43

The Green Book, sundown towns... not enough know this history. Tatiana Apr 2018 #50

Of Course This Was Possible Only Because DallasNE Apr 2018 #52

My grandpa was a dirt-poor white farmer in Texas. He was asked to join the KKK, and refused. Liberty Belle Apr 2018 #58

I saw it too. I WAS SOOOOO TRIGGERED!!! antifash Apr 2018 #62

Lynchings were treated like a community picnic, no_hypocrisy Apr 2018 #63

Its still a horrible, unrequited stain EffieBlack Apr 2018 #68

milwaukee used to have a lynching museum run by a lynching survivor. pansypoo53219 Apr 2018 #66

When they asked Trump when America was last great IronLionZion Apr 2018 #69

The year the Voting Rights Act was passed EffieBlack Apr 2018 #71

And immigration reform, and Medicare/Medicaid, and lots of other major reforms IronLionZion Apr 2018 #72

Donald Trump and every single person who still supports him hates you because Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #76

Horrible. Only briefly mentioned in the 60 Min piece, was the cottage industry Ninga Apr 2018 #70

Appauling marieo1 Apr 2018 #77

this nt heaven05 Apr 2018 #78

These atrocities need to be taught the way the Holocaust is taught in Germany. Reader Rabbit Apr 2018 #81

Agreed EffieBlack Apr 2018 #82

Horrifying. And it's all still there, right beneath the whitewash. byronius Apr 2018 #83

Todays Deplorables are the decendants of those lunatica Apr 2018 #85

I honored their lives by not looking away Gothmog Apr 2018 #88

Racist Murder Of James Byrd Jr. Gothmog Apr 2018 #91

May that horror never be allowed to fade from Living Memory Tom Rinaldo Apr 2018 #93