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These events need to be talked about more.
laserfork
When segregation ended a lot of municipalities apparently got rid of things like public pools and so forth rather than allow them to be integrated. It's incredible, but it shows how deeply rooted that hatred was. It's no wonder Americans are still dealing with it today.
LincLoud
Also, look up Phyllis Wheatley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley
raymm3852
Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America, where she was bought by the Wheatley family of Boston. After she learned to read and write, they encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
CRDMnster
I learned recently why open carrying a weapon is not legal is most states. Its because the black panther movement was open carrying guns.
MmmmmSoup
#1 people say my country is a bit racist but holy shit the US is racist, if any politician did even anything even remotely like your politician they would be sacked on the spot
SmashySashimi
"...an African-American teenager, became the first-ever spelling bee champion in the US"Holy shit, that is awesome.
aintnothinbutahounddog28
I feel like if you cut off the name you should use the word 'girl', just cause it's that much more of an accomplishment, and more of an 'in your face' to those that hate
hotrodny
#1 Do spelling bees make honey?
Zedrapazia
Heh +1
As a non native speaker tho, why's it called that way? I mean, it can't be about the animal, but I can't imagine what word shortened turns into bee.
zerovanity59
Bee means "a community social gathering in order to perform some task, engage in a contest, etc."
Lassannn
God, i love it when the far right gets pissed because of its racism.
or0b0ur0s
There was no such thing as a confirmation process for SCOTUS justices. They were simply appointed and that was that. At least, until someone appointed a Jewish man... And they
or0b0ur0s
are still trying to destroy public schools explicitly because they were integrated.
EroticZombiePants
The irony is now the National Spelling Bee is pretty much never won by white kids anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee_champions
cardinal29
It's all Indian kids. Warms my heart
UpVoteDragons
Why do they hate us so much? All I ever did was be born... my ancestors didn't ask to be here. Hell, I don't know where they expected us to all go? Back to Africa? When they took our language away too and we don't know which country, county, or town they stole us from?
UpVoteDragons
All this fapping about... I'm tired.
DesdemonaMoor
So I'm guessing a mixed race, intelligent woman is a grade-A comeuppance for their attempts to subvert democracy.
Bigblackdick69
tyllathine
Where does it say that bees were cancelled for 20 years afterwards?
tachyx
It says the Scripps version started 17 years later not 20.
SolarFlaair
This isnt the only example of events being cancelled after blacks won. Top gun took a break once the Tuskegee Airmen won the event in obsolete aircraft. https://www.military.com/history/tuskegee-airmen-won-first-air-force-top-gun-aerial-gunnery-competition.html
or0b0ur0s
IDK what they're so mad about RE Obama. It's not like the Herculean struggle of 8 years did more than slightly slow down, but completely fail to stop, let alone reverse the steady decline of the U.S. standard of living for everyone but the top 0.1% (who are, of course, 99.99% white and overwhelmingly male). The whole affair was barely a speed-bump to their plans of a plutocratic, fascist utopia.
tachyx
The presidency is no longer virgin.
inaVanDownbytheLibrary
Thanks to the whistleblowers of past injustices, because recognizing those accomplishments builds a better future, faster.
SlipstreamSal
A Chinese woman, Zhang Shan, won the 1992 Olympic Skeet Shooting competition. Following that, Women were banned from the sport, and got a separate event in 2000. Their given reasoning was "to allow more places for well-qualified men".
kiukkuinenkissa
Me, a Finnish kid, learning of spelling bees: "They compete in who can... spell words the best?! how stupid are they if that's exceptional??" lol.
Then me, a few years later, looking at my first English textbook: "... Oh. I get it now."
Suddenly it was not so easy in this gobbled-together mishmash of a language. Finnish might have all the inflections and compound words and whatnot, but at least spelling and pronounciation are logical and very easy for us natives.
cousteau
Some people cant take losing with grace and elegance, can they?
ThailandExpress
Stop making white kids hate themselves with this CRT! /s
Icantrecall
What you talking about Willis?
HawkmanXLII
Anyone who votes Republican is either a complete fuckin scumbag or a brainwashed moron. I will not be accepting criticism of this statement.
Sensiblyinteresting
This is untrue, some are very rich and don't want to pay taxes or their fair share
AgentTasmania
Do you have some very narrow definition of scumbag?
Dannyalcatraz
Well, after the Civil War, there were a surprising number of black politicians voted into offices in Southern states…and many were killed before they could be seated, or their legitimacy was questioned and seating refused. So this tracks.
eromitlab
Those politicians were also republicans. Yet there are hardly any Black republicans today... because republicans chose to purge them from the party, even though it meant electoral irrelevance in places like the south for decades until they were able to successfully appeal to racist southern whites.
eromitlab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement
Omni21
Sad that this was buried for so long. Thank you for this piece of history.
KirchoffsVoltageLaw
We're all just humans at the end of the day. Why must these weirdos be like this?
delpharseven
#1 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/ Worth the read.
raymm3852
Ta-Nehisi Coates's article "The First White President" presents a critical analysis of Donald Trump's election through the lens of racial politics in America. Coates argues that Trump's presidency is fundamentally rooted in white supremacy [the belief that white people are superior to those of other races] and represents a backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama.
raymm3852
The article challenges the prevalent narrative that Trump's victory was primarily driven by economic anxiety among the white working class. Instead, Coates posits that Trump's appeal transcended economic lines within the white electorate, suggesting a more race-based motivation. He supports this argument with voting data showing Trump's strong performance across various income levels among white voters.
raymm3852
Coates critiques the tendency of some writers and politicians to downplay the role of race in Trump's election, arguing that this approach perpetuates a long-standing American tradition of evading honest discussions about racism. He traces this evasion back to the country's founding, drawing parallels between historical justifications for slavery and contemporary defenses of Trump voters.
raymm3852
Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The First White President" presents a searing critique of the racial dynamics underlying Donald Trump's election, situating it within the broader context of American racial history. Coates posits that Trump's presidency represents a nadir in the nation's racial progress, explicitly predicated on white supremacy and a backlash against Barack Obama's presidency.
raymm3852
Coates challenges the economic reductionism [tendency to explain complex phenomena solely through economic factors] prevalent in many analyses of Trump's victory. He argues that the focus on the white working class as the primary driver of Trump's success is misplaced, citing voting data that demonstrates Trump's appeal across white economic strata.
Theniyaal
Did I miss something, or did the article simply state she won a spelling bee 17 years before the one that everyone knows now? I didn't see anything that said they cancelled spelling bees, and the only racism I saw was people having issues with having to face off against a black person?
This seems like an article about a forgotten achievement in the face of prejudice rather than something that supports "they canceled spelling bees for two decades".
Tarmaccian
Ah, but simple truthful history doesn't get those sweet fake internet points.
marsilies
From what I can find, a celebratory local spelling bee in her honor was cancelled in New Orleans. However, I can't find evidence for whether the national bee was supposed to be the first of an annual tradition that got cancelled, or was always meant as a one-off event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_National_Education_Association_Spelling_Bee
faro2000
Glad I'm not the only person who fact-checked then came back to double-check here.
Also spotted the section in that article noting there was an error in the marking due to an incorrect word definition and, after correcting for that, it was two other anonymous girls on the Cleveland team who had perfect scores while Marie had that one mistake.
Well done to them all, and for the two who apparently "didn't complain" for the result to be overturned.
bippityboppitybuttsex
#1 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/us/spelling-bee-marie-bolden-medal-search.html
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
Modern conservatism started when pompous affluent British MP Edmund Burke watched the French revolution and concluded they needed a defence mechanism against the poors being unhappy.
His strategy was to push the importance of deference to authority, doing what you're told by those in power, doing what you're told by god (as relayed by the church), and accepting that society only works when those who are naturally entitled to be in power (the wealthy) are allowed to retain that power forever.
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
Over the ensuing 250 years, the philosophy of conservatism has remained largely static.
The language and talking points change, but the underpinning principle remains that there is a single "correct" configuration of society with defined castes of people, and anything which even remotely questions this status quo is subversive heterodoxy.
Conservatism is nothing more than those in power telling those they consider their inferiors that they must accept subordination for "the good of society".
zerovanity59
Weren't they always pushing that? How is that different than the ancien régime?
tachyx
The church and aristocrats were rivals, now they work together.
STGxDante
When African Amricans started excorcising their 2nd amendment rights conservatives were bending over backward for gun legislation.
stillnotawake
It reminds me of his I learned of the bombing of black Wall Street from "The Watchmen" mini series.
cjandstuff
I had heard about it earlier than the Watchmen, but only because of a historical photo dump someone had posted.
LateNightBunnyParty
I knew about it cuz I live in Oklahoma, but I didn't learn about it til the early aughts, when I was already an adult.
twoamartist
My Mother insisted I read Natchez Burning and The Bone Tree by Greg Isles. Despite them each being thicker than a dictionary, I persevered. In fact, I couldn’t put them down. I thought I was educated in US history. Boy, was I wrong.
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ifounditunderthere
Wait until you learn of the nat guard bombing Tulsa..
VaultGirl69
Tulsa sucks. This is probably a huge reason why. And West Tulsa was never fully reinvested in after that happened. Also, very few cops there. My friend's mom went to visit her boyfriend in that area at night and his mother scolded him for not going and getting her himself.
sqeaky
I think it was the Civil Air Patrol and it's a big part of why the Civil Air Patrol was dissolved.
marsilies
I'm pretty sure you're talking about the same thing, since the Greenwood District in Tulsa was known as "Black Wall Street". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
aintnothinbutahounddog28
Wait until you learn they are actually the same thing... lol (I don't mean to be snarky, it was just too good of a set up, sorry!)
JustAPileOfCats
Welfare only became villainized after black people started to gain access to it. Coca Cola lost its cocaine after black people started to get access to it. America's white racists will destroy everything, even if it hurts themselves, if it means black people (or whomever they hate more) gets hurt too.
shadolance
Totally agree and believe the above, but the cola-cocaine thing caught me off guard. Got a source on that? Would love to read!
JustAPileOfCats
There's a few articles from the paywalled NYT, Attention, etc. Here's a free one: https://daily.jstor.org/who-took-the-cocaine-out-of-coca-cola/
shadolance
Hot damn.
TheJuiceLoosener
ButtPlunger69
Nobody talking about the coca cola cocaine statement lmao coke switching to caffeine over cocaine is a really good thing for society
TacoPoweredHelicopter
Ya that's seems like a net positive.
pinkypiesbutt
That second example tho bro. LoL
sesamesnapsinhalf
Can we do that with guns again?
aintnothinbutahounddog28
Right?? Can we at least get a little silver lining on our hemisphere spanning storm cloud of racism??
browsererror
Oh, look up what happened with the Black Panthers. IIRC it is also related to the criminalization of weed.
LincLoud
James Baldwin discussed that. He found that white southerners connected whiteness to everything they had that was positive; their intellect, strength, etc. So, whenever a black person had something of equal or greater measure, such as intellect, it made the white southerners question themselves and they became fearful, sad, and infuriated because if a black person could match or exceed what they attributed to their whiteness, it meant their whiteness wasn't all that great.
Taxicat
Similar issue has been found in regard to sex/gender. For example: a study on competitive video games found that lower-scoring male players were the most hostile to female players of all skill levels, while higher-scoring male players didn’t seem to care one way or the other. The conclusion said it was possibly because the lower-scoring males had more status at risk because of the increased competition.
asianKit9
Black achievement and excellence refuted the tenets of white supremacy and directly challenged the prejudiced belief that Blacks weren’t intelligent.
detectivekagami
Learned recently that black NFL retirees were straight up not compensated the same as white retirees for Chronic Brain Trauma (CBT) associated diagnoses later in life. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047793751/nfl-concussion-settlement-race-norming-cte#:~:text=Close%20Navigation%20Menu-,NFL%20agrees%20to%20end%20race%2Dbased%20brain%20testing%20in%20%241,players%20to%20win%20dementia%20awards.
scortch9823
Someone should point out all the black people who have a heartbeat, so it must not be that great. Juat saying, we could solve a whole lot of problems really fast
kehrin
Or maybe connect it to the BS abortion line about how a heartbeat means a life that needs to be protected. And -- omg -- black people have heartbeats too!
Cthulhuchooseyou
It goes against their myth of "superiority". If they aren't great because they're white, then they stand the chance of not being great at all, and many cannot stand that thought. This coming from a white man myself.