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negromiconomics

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12. Easy to miss but not invisible

Reply to Ligyron (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 23, 2019, 07:17 AM

Oct 2019

Certainly not taught or part of the public mind like the burning of Atlanta which enters our consciousness from many sources both historic and ahistoric.... but hardly a totally invisible event. Look at the first paragraph of this obituary of John Singleton from earlier this year.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/john-singleton-rosewood-hollywood-lynchings.html

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Good Gawd, I thought the last 2 paragraphs were fictional like the Watchmen series above. Ligyron Oct 2019 #8

Easy to miss but not invisible negromiconomics Oct 2019 #12

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