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[–]BLACKJACK 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African American man who was murdered by three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer and John King dragged Byrd for three miles behind a pickup truck along an asphalt road. Byrd, who remained conscious for much of his ordeal, was killed about halfway through the dragging when his body hit the edge of a culvert, severing his right arm and head. The murderers drove on for another ​1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) before dumping Byrd's torso in front of a black cemetery in Jasper.

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

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had to go back 22 years to find an actual hate crime

[–]GFIYTFUYDYTRDYESRESR 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i used to work with an old black man, probably one of the nicest guys that i have ever known.. he had worked for our boss for all of his adult life.. he told me that when he was younger and he and the boss would go to lunch that the boss would walk in the front door of the cafe but that he had to enter the cafe using the rear door of the cafe.. he also told me that back in the fifties, etc, if he would go into a store and so much as brush up against a white woman that if he was lucky they would only run him out of town.

when i grew up as a little boy, my parents were hella racist and they used to daydream about joining the ku klux klan.. they thought it would be a move up the social ladder.. my own mama would tell me that if i was to bring any niggers into our home that they would throw the nigger out and then they would throw me out.

black folks is real tired of the bullshit, and that is what the black lives matter movement is about.

i wouldnt be surprised if they actually lynch a few crackers(that is slang for white folks, cuz we is white like a saltine cracker)..

peace and love to my brothers and sisters of color.