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great takes in that thread:
oh really, the race riots, eh? why were there race riots?
The fact that white people hated the civil rights movement so much they actually rioted (often harnessing that anger on school busing programs) has been completely memory holed and we all just sorta pretend like it never happened. Even as someone who likes to read history, I don’t really know all that much about it. But I assume it never gets brought up in history class or society at large because it spoils the narrative of “MLK Jr gave a speech, we passed a law, and now we have total equality and racism had been defeated”.
A lot of people come to the realization that society fought MLK, watched him die and then said "oh! oh! I agreed with him the whole time"
But it's worse. What they really said was "He agreed with me the whole time"
Yup. After MLK ended racism, everyone forgets about how the white people who formed lunch mobs and bombed people are still walking around, probably shopping for tomatoes next to you.
They still do on Sundays.
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Sorry if this is inappropriate I just wanted to make fun of rude white people after churchA very Douglas Adams-sounding concept, the Lunch Mob
Race riots?
More like, racist riots.