I agree, I’m in the military so I end up working with a lot of 18-19 year olds. One day a few years back, a bunch of us were sitting around the table talking, and I don’t remember what the conversation was about but this kid lookes at the black guy and says “that’s how you get lynched”
There was a collective gasp and we then had to explain to him what that meant. He just though it was something offensive to say to someone.
Rosa Parks lived until 2005
(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.
And Emmett Till could still be very much alive, had he not been lynched.
As brutal as that verb is, it’s an understatement as to what he went through.
Going out on a limb guessing kids aren’t learning this anymore.
I agree, I’m in the military so I end up working with a lot of 18-19 year olds. One day a few years back, a bunch of us were sitting around the table talking, and I don’t remember what the conversation was about but this kid lookes at the black guy and says “that’s how you get lynched”
There was a collective gasp and we then had to explain to him what that meant. He just though it was something offensive to say to someone.
My sister actually saw her in elementary school! Even in her old age she was trying to educate us, and teach us better.