People want to view America's history of white supremacy as a conversation about what's in people's hearts and minds.
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People want to view America's history of white supremacy as a conversation about what's in people's hearts and minds. But we have to remind ourselves that it existed as real intentions and actions in the real world. It's documented.
“We had to sign papers that said that the ‘property shall not be used or occupied by any person of African, Japanese or Chinese or any Mongolian descent,’ except for the capacity of a servant to a Caucasian person.”
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@polotek a map of restrictive covenants in San Mateo Cty would look same or worse. I remember when my grandma told me about the work she and her church group had done to integrate their neighborhood. The shock I felt upon realizing in that moment that California had housing and schools that were segregated too. Schoolbooks loved to treat segregation, sundown towns, etc as peculiarities of the South. But turned out that was always bullshit.
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@cczona I honestly don’t understand how other parts of the country get away with it.
