• protist@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Greater than just the South, the eugenics movement in the US in the early 20th century, with forced sterilizations and criminalizing interracial marriage, happened nationally.

    Though you don’t need to be capitalist to be racist as fuck. Racism exists all over the world in many different government and economic systems throughout all of human history

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      Indeed, Chicago, until the 1960’s, was one of the most segregated cities in the USA. Irish, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, etc…during daylight hours, everything was business, but during sunset, nobody crossed the ethnic and racial lines drawn up by the neighborhoods.