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raw_anon_1111today at 4:28 AM1 replyview on HN

These were the states that supported some form of stare sponsored segregation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_...

And saying that the “Supreme Court didn’t always rule the way you like” is minimizing an entire race of people - including my still living parents having to grow up in schools that were underfunded but supposedly “separate but equal”, people getting hung if you looked at a White woman the wrong way and didn’t “know your place” or even marrying outside of your race was illegal until 1969. Not to mention colleges that ny parents weren’t allowed to go to, having to drink from “colored water fountains” - again the US Supreme Court said this was legal

So if you ignore half of the country that had segregation and the US Supreme Court that condoned it, everything is fine?


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trimethylpurinetoday at 5:44 AM

>"minimizing an entire race of people"

Not minimizing. Just acknowledging that this alone doesn't characterize the general take of the complete history of the country. It describes a nation divided on moral lines at best. Not all states participated in segregation and those states that didn't ultimately are those who won in the end. So to take that win away degrades the victory that your parents (probably) helped to win.

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