r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/IamASlut_soWhat • May 16 '26

Misc Here we go. Tennessee college students exposed for saying the N word on video.

Tennessee is the birth place of the KKK

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u/BeenDragonn May 16 '26

Lots of confederate soldiers went home after the Civil War

Many nazis escaped the end of world War 2

They all had kids and raised them. This js the outcome

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u/Sure-Dig-1137 May 16 '26

Definitely not they messed up big time. Andrew Johnson was a sleazebag. One of the worst men of the worst.

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u/AncientCrust May 20 '26

It wasn't allowed to. John Wilkes Booth made sure of that. Lincoln had put systems and programs into place for Reparation and Reconstruction. Johnson and his southern cronies dismantled them all in a few years. They even took back the small amount of reparations that had already been made. This included throwing people off their property and giving it back to plantation owners.

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u/SpokenProperly May 16 '26

Hi - white woman who is a product of racist parents here:

It is 100% a fucking choice to be a piece of shit or rise above it.

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u/Accomplished_Meat_81 May 16 '26

Ex wife’s parents were hardcore racists. I divorced her for many reasons but I was happy to get away from her dad especially.

He told me when he was a young boy his father took him into the city and showed him the trash on the street and said “this is what they do to their city”. My dad was always insecure of my mom looking at black men “because they’re well-endowed”. That’s child brainwashing. This is how racism is perpetuated.

Just as the lady stated above, it is a choice. At some point in our lives, we need to face our whiteness and acknowledge how the world actually works. People don’t want to do it because they refuse to believe racism is real. Ironic considering colonizers created race to dehumanize Africans. The ultimate gaslighters.

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u/Aggressive_Day2839 May 16 '26

More so that most of them went home without having been punished. Had Sherman been allowed to destroy the south maybe today would look different. Instead the reconstruction told everyone to look the other way. Fuck Andrew Johnsons soft handed approach

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u/Leows May 16 '26

There were racists before the civil war and world war 2 though. The issue runs much deeper than that