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Historically, white supremacy was the idea that white people were inherently superior to black people. Black success, owning a store, living in a wealthy neighborhood, enjoying leisure time, all threatened white superiority. Segregation was the solution to stifle black success.
Legal segregation is gone, but we live in its residue. It’s assumptions. America never did much work to right these wrongs, to undue these notions when these laws were overturned. So here we are with folks unable to fathom that black folks belong in “nice” spaces.
Here we are looking at the violence that is always embedded in segregated spaces. People are able to access this violence with a quick 911 call about their own discomfort.
