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2. Here's new of one right in Florida. Ever heard of Rosewood?
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 01:47 PM
Jun 2020

"The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida. At least six black people and two white people were killed, though eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. The town of Rosewood was destroyed, ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

There was some compensation decades later but so much of deaths and destruction of property by whites against African Americans has gone unpunished and uncompensated for. And that's really a drop in the bucket to the 250 years of stolen, uncompensated laber during enslavement, and of course there is the Jim Crow era and the present day killing of black men by police and other whites who think they can just kill black men.

Just saying. Reparations anyone?

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