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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i don't know that jim crow is coming back (or could come back). looks like the big issue is that of redistrictng according to this article i began to read earlier (but never finished, so i don't know categorically that's what he meant)
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For the past years racial legislation has been creeping in. In all started here in California with Prop 187, and ever since then, "conservatives" across the nation have been gerrymandering and implementing racial legislation (this includes things like the 3 strikes laws as well, "zero-tolerance" in education, the increase in "red-lining" in housing and infrastructure development)
Lets face it. Over the past twenty years, certain aspects of America reflect more of the same racist sentiments as the Jim Crow era than they don't. Arizona has become the punching bag for this, but as "brown" folks take over the agricultural work in the Southern states, we see this racial backlash. Its not a coincidence. We had fucking SLAVERY in this country for Christ's sake, but it wasn't until after the 1910s/20s when black folks starting moving to Northern cities that Jim Crow popped up its ugly head, not just in the South, but "Northern" cities as well. In 1920, Los Angeles was one of the largest "all-White" metropolitan areas in the country, and had as fierce a segregation as Memphis or Atlanta. Jim Crow developed as a retaliation against an increasingly de-racialized society. As black folks found increasing opportunities, white power structures evolved the distinctions of social segregation to an exponential level, entirely to preserve the shambles of white privelege which were disappearing as black folks found better economic opportunities. During slavery black people actually had more social mobility than they did in the early-20th century at the height of Jim Crow. That is what I mean by its coming back. Racialized attitudes, sentiments, and laws are being implemented to try and quell the growing equality, artificially imposing the vestiges of inequality as a retaliatory backlash.