RE: https://mastodon.social/@LiamOMaraIV/117332511411344026
to the “but Jim Crow happened a long time ago” crowd: i was born 5 years after this happened.
Jim Crow fascists still walk among us. Trump is your most obvious example. Mitch McConnell as well.
#racists #whiteSupremacists #whiteTerrorism #JimCrow #elections
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1961, #Black farmer #HerbertLee was shot in the head, in public, before dozens of witnesses, by #Mississippi state legislator #EHHurst just for registering Black voters. Hurst claimed 'self-defence' against the unarmed Lee, and was acquitted the same day.
