• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Think of the ww2 vets thats hated nazis and communism until the day they died. Those deep seeded feelings that stem from trauma just dont go away.

    That is some wishful thinking, how many ww2 veterans went home and supported segregation?

    hollywood and the US propaganda machine managed to completely whitewash the USA post WW2 if you genuinely believe this.

    • Iteria@sh.itjust.works
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      Segregation is not mass murder. That’s how they could live with themselves. They just didn’t want Those People living next to them. They could be over here. Away from them. They would unironically think they were better than nazis.

      As a black person, I’ll say that of the choices, I do think that segregation worked out better for black people. There is simply more POC wealth in historically segregated areas than areas there that’s not true. Turns it, it was actually better to keep racists away from you than letting them torment you while you were trying to establish your community from an even from horrific situation (everything abojt Jim crow and slavery.). I think the battle for integration was a good one, but it was done once there was such a thing as middle class blacks.