Alabama's deep racial divisions increasingly plague the rest of America

Dec 14, 2017 17:19

Alabama's deep racial divisions increasingly plague the rest of America

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lovedforaday December 15 2017, 15:23:01 UTC
well, yeah. but i wouldn't say increasingly but always fucking has been. maybe one day their will be more discussion of how this racial divide can transcend the political spectrum.

in other news:

“White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white,” @nhannahjones told @JeffreyGoldberg. “If their neighborhood school is black, they want choice.” https://t.co/uQYp1glxZc
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) December 14, 2017

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soleiltropiques December 15 2017, 18:40:27 UTC
Wow. I read that through and it is really terrible, but she's so right.

Fareed Zakaria also did a piece on this on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/06/01/exp-gps-0529-witw.cnn

He was pointing that segregation is increasing, rather than decreasing (i.e. he wasn't just talking about education, however).

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xbenji65 December 15 2017, 21:39:04 UTC
I was watching a 'funny' video on Facebook about Roy Moore's victory party but then i lost track of it..
Basically showed the hours before the results where they were confident they were gonna win . Anyone have a link to that? I'd like to finnish viewing it.

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blackjedii December 16 2017, 01:36:00 UTC
I'm still not over the justification that women and men are totally happy to vote for an all-but-convicted rapist of young girls over a "baby killer"

Because babies are sacred! As long as they are still in mommy at least.

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soleiltropiques December 17 2017, 00:01:12 UTC
"Because babies are sacred! As long as they are still in mommy at least."

Yeah some of the justifications people gave were seriously fucked up.

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lovedforaday December 17 2017, 15:52:27 UTC
did you see that one guy on vice news who was like "well forty years ago it was okay to marry 14 and 15 year olds. in fact my grandma got married at 14." like what? people knew it was wrong 40 years ago, or roy moore wouldn't have been banned from that mall. i would hazard a guess that people knew girls getting married that young was wrong 90 years ago when my own grandma was married at 14. creepy-ass conservative christians.

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blackjedii December 17 2017, 16:53:30 UTC
Freakishly enough, my mother used this justification. Part of her family is from Alabama.... but also that particular side of her family had some serious dysfunction and abuse going on.

I was not impressed by it.

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