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86. What about what every other country does

Mon Apr 9, 2018, 07:29 PM

Apr 2018

is really a bad comparison. First of all it doesn’t absolve any country in any way. Slavery and genocide is never acceptable no matter how far back in history it goes.

We either take a stand and draw the line on what we want to be or we don’t. If we want to do that then the very first thing we have to do is admit our shadow side. And if we actually do that then and only then do we have a chance of becoming better.

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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