• Gigan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The most egregious example of institutional racism is finally undone.

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      In a country built by slave labor this is the most egregious example of institutionalize racism? Not the slavery? Or the time we took Japanese people and put them in camps?

        • SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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          Yeah man, black people going to college is right up there with chattel slavery and putting people in concentration camps. The great injustice of our times.

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          Slavery was codified into the Constitution. It was never outlawed. You should take 5 minutes to actually read on the subject.

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      I’d argue the whole “you can’t enslave black people unless you accuse them of a crime first” is much more eggregious but go off I guess.

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        “But this one affected ‘Asians’! Oh, and white people, but that’s totally not what we’re focusing on.” - these people