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Kentucky

crimycarny

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5. Deep racism resides in KY

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 1, 2020, 12:12 PM

Dec 2020

I grew up in the neighboring state of Indiana. It wasn’t all that long ago they had “members only” bars — the only membership requirement being that you were white. I guarantee there are still some of those bars around in KY.

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