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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,661 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 10:24 AM Apr 2022

Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC:

Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC:


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Lunch counter during Cherry Blossom Festival 1954 in a still highly segregated Washington DC: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 OP
Some real heros-- Hoyt Apr 2022 #1
Remember, a lot of those deplorable racists in the top picture are still with us.Those very people Walleye Apr 2022 #4
Always wish Media would track some of those MFers down and see if Hoyt Apr 2022 #5
I would say most of them are, but some of them have seen the error of their ways Walleye Apr 2022 #6
garners a nostalgic moment llashram Apr 2022 #2
DC is still highly segregated in many ways IronLionZion Apr 2022 #3

Walleye

(36,458 posts)
4. Remember, a lot of those deplorable racists in the top picture are still with us.Those very people
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 11:50 AM
Apr 2022
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. Always wish Media would track some of those MFers down and see if
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 12:02 PM
Apr 2022

they are still ignorant racist pigs. Suspect they are.

Walleye

(36,458 posts)
6. I would say most of them are, but some of them have seen the error of their ways
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 12:06 PM
Apr 2022

But people tend to forget the civil rights movement was not even two generations ago. We are still dealing with the rabid segregationist racists. They had to stay undercover for a while but Trump gave them permission to come back out and raise their spawn as well as racists. It’s very discouraging. The people my age went to the very first racially integrated schools. We experienced the change. It’s very sad to see we haven’t gotten any farther

llashram

(6,269 posts)
2. garners a nostalgic moment
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 10:35 AM
Apr 2022

NOT!!! and trump and his KKKrew are plotting how to return to these "good old days".

IronLionZion

(47,132 posts)
3. DC is still highly segregated in many ways
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 10:48 AM
Apr 2022

with many types of jobs, housing, and so on. People don't normally think of government contracting in racial segregation/discrimination issues but there are many companies here who have a major dividing line in the types of work and clients people can work on based on ancestral heritage, not citizenship, training, or experience.

If that's too cryptic for DUers to understand, these companies need a token US citizen to do things US citizens won't do and will completely lie to recruit one. They prefer one who looks like the hundreds of other folks who work those jobs to intentionally cause confusion about who is stealing jobs. Is it stealing if no Americans will apply?

More of these terrible companies are going out of business and being exposed online as they lose talent during labor shortage.

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