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But in Vienna, as in hundreds of mostly white towns with similar histories across America, much is left unspoken. Around here, almost no one talks openly about the violence that drove out Black residents nearly 70 years ago, or even whispers the name these places were given: “sundown towns.”“It’s real strange and weird out here sometimes,” said Nicholas Lewis, a stay-at-home father. “Every time I walk around, eyes are on me.
Very often, especially in well-to-do suburbs that didn’t want to be known as racist, they had no name at all. But they still kept out Black residents. There were hundreds of such towns, scholars say, reaching from New York to Oregon. Perhaps thousands. “It was something that was known,” said James Davis, 27, a Black truck driver from the nearby town of Cairo, which is largely Black. “But also something that our parents taught us growing up.”
“Bullshit!” an older white man shouted at Vaughn, after she said Black people aren’t treated equally. “They get the same as the white people get!”Vaughn, whose grandmother gently pulled her back from the confrontation with the angry older man, isn’t surprised that Vienna’s white residents don’t see racial issues around them. The situation is far more subtle today than when Black residents were forced out.
A few weeks after his arrest, Latham escaped from jail. Dozens of armed men took to the streets of Vienna and the surrounding fields, backed up by bloodhounds and spotters in low-flying planes. A couple of blocks from the field where Vienna’s Black community once lived, down a narrow dead-end street, a grandmother with pink fingernails and an easy laugh watches over an extended family that spans much of America’s Black-white divide.“It’s our sanctuary,” Maribeth Harris said of the street. One of her daughters lives next door. Another lives across the street with her boyfriend, Nicholas Lewis.
“We want to get out of here,” she said. “We have to figure out what’s good for them. And Vienna won’t be good for them.”
She wants to be the a supreme court judge DEFENDING the CONSTITUTION and she doesn't even know this! I had to learn this in FIFTH GRADE!
Omg- So move out of rancid state of Illinois where they are clearly still circling the drain of race riots and using history as a catalyst to fuel division instead of heal it. Be proud of who you are kids, we are all ONE family under the same sun.
They ought to ask why they have to be white.
'Were once'
is really trying to tug at the heart-strings on this one. Hahaaa - The people have woken up to the 'racism, racism, racism' claims. They don't work anymore cuz you used them too much
In POTUS 's America these children have a chance to grow up to be proud of who they are, instead of feeling 'less than' because of their skin color. Opportunity & education are key no one is proud of being a hater, a looter, a drug dealer, a felon. I'm proud & black. FREE
Another race baiting story by the liberal media.
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Hearthbreaking!
Oh, you mean you want to stir up the mud on the bottom of the pond for some reason.
Damm you guys are really pushing this today huh?
GRANDMA, WHY DO YOU PUT OYSTERS IN YOUR STUFFING?
And that is a damn shame after all these years that racism still exists. What does this say about some people. We are all God’s children. Jesus was born in Bethlehem 10 kilometres south of the city of Jerusalem. Do you really think he was white
This is so sad. Be who and what you are. We all belong.
Did you know there was a time in which Chinese people were allowed to walk the streets in San Diego or was that Japanese oh and how about the Irish, propagating a pretend made up story as though it’s factual for every single child is just wrong
Now do white people in East Cleveland, north St. Louis, East St. Louis and south side Chicago.
What a stupid tweet. If you are multiracial you are not black. You’re a mixture of races. Sometimes you can be more than two races.
Now its the other way around.
there is no systemic racism
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