The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country
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Willow
A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.
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We had to desegregate public drinking fountains
And what actually happened is we just got rid of public drinking fountains.
White people will set everything on fire rather than share
White conservatives aren't just different politically they're entirely separate socio-political ethnicity.
And I keep thinking that getting apprenticed in community building is *vital*
“Frightening” precisely because it’s both accurate and deeply sad.
I then had to go a pool on the other side of town. BTW it was in the Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's district
That’s the common thread.
It’s just a weird orange / tangerine color.
We're not in this position because Obama was elected. These events were underway before Obama even ran for Senate.
No debate on the swimming pool thing.
A long slide to Republican autocracy.
Motivations are hard to know but I don't see Obama's election overriding all that.