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8. I think for a brief time (in the span of history), we WERE better.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 12:24 PM
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But remember there was slavery, then after that Jim Crow, and even with the surface death of Jim Crow, there were still many, many ways of exploiting and abusing non-whites.

A woman could not get a credit card in her own name until 1974.

I have been loathe to publicly acknowledge that America was once very much NOT "great" - because I hate the implication of "Make America Great Again" being that it wasn't "great" under Obama - but the fact is, we have had very ugly times in our history. Especially for anyone not a white hetero male.

My second coinage of this post is that MAGA really means, Make America Grotesque Again. Sadly, this is what too many wanted, and Trump actually is getting the help this time to make that happen.

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