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American History

electric_blue68

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3. Mississippi, God Damn! And probably too many stories like that in the South...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:15 AM

16 hrs ago

The North had/has racism, too, but yikes the horrors Black people faced in The South.
And probably may face still in deepest backwaters in Mississippi, Alabama, maybe Georgia, etc.

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