Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash for holding rallies in places described as “sundown towns.”
For the uninitiated:
“A sundown town is one that forbade Blacks, by ordinance or otherwise, to live in it. Many of these places, including Cullman, posted signs to the effect of ‘Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark,’ sometimes with far less sanitized language.”
As a non American, thank you. The headline made zero sense without that context.
As an American, I had no clue what a “sundown town” was, but I do know how far American media will go to obfuscate Führer Drumpf’s outright racism and bigotry.
Dude it’s a SUPER old term. Like, Civil War old. They’re using the term because it’s highly associated with slavery-flavored racism.
Edit: I’m not saying it’s an archaic or disused term. I’m saying the term was coined well over a century ago.
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Uh yeah that’s more or less what the article is about? I wasn’t trying to say “it’s not used anymore” I only meant that the term was coined a long time ago.
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No worries, friend 🍻
Obfuscate? Just because you don’t know what something means doesn’t mean it’s a malicious attempt to hide anything. Sundown towns are widely known as racist ordinances.
As an American, I had no clue what a “sundown town” was
Same… I figured it was one of those retirement communities where people go to die. TIL.
You are by no means the only one who thought that before reading the comments…
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Waiting for SCOTUS to make it legal again. (And Trump’s presence is effectively an endorsement of that.)
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County by me has 13k people in it across 500 sq miles. Not sure how they’re going to catch anybody in an APC (which they didn’t have) after they zoop out of the area on one of the many country roads.
“No OnE HaS DonE MoRe fOr BLAK pEoPlE thAN mEeEeEEEe”
“If I get elected, no black person will be without a job. Whether they like it or not.”
But they get the black jobs
Took yur durr!
The best part about Harris replacing Biden is that she has the time and energy to actually campaign, which forces Donald Fuck to get up off his toilet and open his mouth. And in public, he keeps showing everyone who he really is!
Is he getting more orange?
there is about 10,000 historically sundown towns, i think referring to their current race distribution would be a stronger argument
Howell at least has a current reputation for being a nasty center for white supremacy and the KKK. I don’t know about the other cities off hand, but I know it’s reputation without needing to look it up.
