68 sats \ 4 replies \ @erict875 20 Jun \ parent \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ
I'm not American, and genuinely curious to know how that affects your life in 2024.
Where are you from? This is not just America's problem.
This is easily researchable. And with imagination not too difficult to extrapolate.
This is not from 1870 or 1920 or 1965, but 2023-2024 and is emblematic of perpetuating attitudes and behavior:
Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
An American Tragedy: The legacy of slavery lingers in our cities’ ghettos
Researchers illuminate centuries of identity lost because of slavery
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I'm originally from Africa. I am aware of such stories in the press, but fwiw I have never actually been able to validate them in real life. I'm not saying they're not true, even though I'm very well aware how the press can push a certain narrative while omitting other facts...
My personal experience as an immigrant (not in the us) is the complete opposite, this is why I was particularly interested about yours.
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Africa is a huge continent. Where are you from? And to where did you immigrate?
My personal experience can be a book, but briefly;
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proven housing descrimination where we were literally flooded out of an apartment when they found out I was Black. You see my white wife rented the place while I was working away from home.
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Too many pull-overs and harassments, warrantless searches and in one case a baton to the head by police to count. I've only escaped jail, because I have been able to afford good lawyers. But if you sit in most. any courtroom in America, you see Blacks going to jail, and for longer, with only public defenders to represent them.
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A boss and a direct report, after a year on the job, telling me openly in a staff meeting that they were not learning their jobs, because it was easier to just ask me. Upon confronting this, the boss said that's not what we mean and ended the meeting. Two months later I was laid off due to reorganization. This may have been the most priveleged shit I ever experienced.
I could go on and on and on.