[ November 20, 2015]
While reading an article about a Black Mississippi man who was reversed over in a parking lot by a group of White teens (for sport) in 2011, I noticed a line from the judge in the case that really stuck with me. The judge, while attending the University of Virginia law school in 1993, recalled that he saw a fraternity party flier that said, “No Jews, No Wops, and No Nigga Babes”.
Fast forward: a Yale fraternity indicates that no Black women will be allowed in a Halloween party some 22 years later. It seems as if our history is really just being microwaved, although some people think these “individual” phenomena are not related to each other.
And then there’s the timeline of resistance to these events.
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