Things that weren't considered racist when Clint Eastwood was growing up [View all]

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Scott Wooledge ‏@Clarknt67 9h9 hours ago Brooklyn, NY
Clint Eastwood: “When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist."

Sarah McBride @SarahEMcBride
Clint Eastwood was born in 1930. Let's start a list of things that weren't considered racist when he was growing up.

1) Jim Crow


2) a segregated military


3) dismissing the concept of a black president


4) poll taxes


5) opposition to federal anti-lynching laws.


6) using racist words and descriptions


7) membership in the Klan


8) forbidding people of color from entire professions


9) Housing discrimination


10) forbidding black people from talking to white people


11) anti-miscegenation laws


12) Jim Crow again


13) literally the entire experience of being black in America in the 1930s


14) Black Codes / convict lease


15)The Negro Motorist Green Book. Also, "Sundown Towns."




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