• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    They genuinely believe the Civil Rights Movement ended when MLK gave a nice speech that convinced all the racists racism is wrong before making racism illegal and the racists embedded institutionally made those institutions not racist. They do not know about MLK applying for a concealed carry permit after his house got firebombed or how terrified the white power structure became of the NoI and BPP.

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      Black History Month was created by Ronald Reagan in an attempt to control how history depicts the voices of the leaders of the movement, and it worked.