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Oh em gee, is France breaking the cycle?...
On May 11, 1926, a white mob tortured and lynched a young Black man named Henry Patterson in LaBelle, Florida, for attempting to ask for a drink of water....
https://virginiahistory.org/learn/steel-drivin-man-john-henry-untold-story-american-legend#:~:text=Folklorists%20have%20long%20thought%20John,work%20building%20the%20C%26O%20Railroad...
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‘Black people can’t swim’ Because until very recent memory, the US was an explicitly white supremacist authoritarian state, And access to public pools specifically Was one of the crowning achievements of The evil at the heart of this country. They destroyed every public pool that they couldn’t privatize. To keep...
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575
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