• fiat_lux
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    1 year ago

    There was a video clip of a woman speaking about supermarket looting that made me start questioning my total pacifism. This is a different video transcript from her but, on the same topic. I really appreciated how she laid it out.

    … So if I played 400 rounds of monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win?
    - Kimberley Latrice Jones on the topic of the social contract.

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        11 year ago

        Skin colour was just a visual indicator of class that told white people that black people were lower in the social hierarchy than them. There’s a lot of overlap, it’s not like white people were terrified of the colour brown generally.

        I think it would be a mistake to say that the Tulsa massacre, also known as The Black Wall Street wasn’t a heady mixture of both classism and racism.