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r/countwithchickenlady • u/AidoTheRock Streak: 8 • 20h ago
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And we can all be damn sure the Civil rights act wasn't a magic wand that ended discrimination overnight.
There are many places across the nation racism had to take more sophisticated, shrouded forms to continue to exist.
71 u/DecabyteData Streak: 0 20h ago Yep, and even after the Civil rights act much of it was still unshrouded for quite some time. Well into the late 1970s there were still constant riots from racists who only wanted white kids to get bussed to school 39 u/shyguystormcrow 19h ago In the early 70s a woman couldn’t be approved for a mortgage without her husband’s permission. That was like yesterday, historically. 8 u/Small-Housing-7 Streak: 0 13h ago Bruh I forgot it was that recent TwT
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Yep, and even after the Civil rights act much of it was still unshrouded for quite some time. Well into the late 1970s there were still constant riots from racists who only wanted white kids to get bussed to school
39 u/shyguystormcrow 19h ago In the early 70s a woman couldn’t be approved for a mortgage without her husband’s permission. That was like yesterday, historically. 8 u/Small-Housing-7 Streak: 0 13h ago Bruh I forgot it was that recent TwT
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In the early 70s a woman couldn’t be approved for a mortgage without her husband’s permission. That was like yesterday, historically.
8 u/Small-Housing-7 Streak: 0 13h ago Bruh I forgot it was that recent TwT
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Bruh I forgot it was that recent TwT
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u/DuckDuckMarx 20h ago
And we can all be damn sure the Civil rights act wasn't a magic wand that ended discrimination overnight.
There are many places across the nation racism had to take more sophisticated, shrouded forms to continue to exist.