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This Sundown Town Update Is How Democrats Know That Race War & White Ethno-State Talk Are Serious
from The Root
Nevada Passes Law Banning Racist School Mascots & *Checks Notes* 'Sundown Town' Sirens...in 2021
Here’s a question: If America isn’t and never has been a racist country (it is, but stay with me) as the massive Republican swath of white and fragile Critical Race Theory opponents claim, then why are there still entire states that are just now getting rid of its “sundown town” sirens? Why TF did American states ever even have the sirens if America wasn’t and isn’t a racist country? And we’re not just talking about states in the deep south full of people clinging to their precious antebellum roots (not that they’re racist AF or anything)—we’re talking about fucking Nevada.
CNN reports that Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak “was joined by members of the Nevada Indian Commission and tribal elders during the signing” of Assembly Bill 88, which basically bans “racially discriminatory” shit like racially and culturally insensitive school mascots and—oh yeah—sirens that historically meant that it was open lynching season on any person of color caught on the street after dark.
If you were to guess what year the state ordinance that basically told non-white people, “if you’re caught out here after dark the best you can hope is that a nice white mob lets you choose your own noose” was eliminated, what year would you say? 1930? 1950? 1964, when the federal Civil Rights Act was signed? How about ten whole-ass years after that?
According to CNN, the ordinance wasn’t done away with—in this totally not racist country—until 1974. The fight to remove the siren in Minden has been controversial because white people love their white supremacy memorabilia the siren is now used to honor volunteer firefighters, according to what Minden town manager J.D. Frisby told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
CNN reports that Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak “was joined by members of the Nevada Indian Commission and tribal elders during the signing” of Assembly Bill 88, which basically bans “racially discriminatory” shit like racially and culturally insensitive school mascots and—oh yeah—sirens that historically meant that it was open lynching season on any person of color caught on the street after dark.
If you were to guess what year the state ordinance that basically told non-white people, “if you’re caught out here after dark the best you can hope is that a nice white mob lets you choose your own noose” was eliminated, what year would you say? 1930? 1950? 1964, when the federal Civil Rights Act was signed? How about ten whole-ass years after that?
According to CNN, the ordinance wasn’t done away with—in this totally not racist country—until 1974. The fight to remove the siren in Minden has been controversial because white people love their white supremacy memorabilia the siren is now used to honor volunteer firefighters, according to what Minden town manager J.D. Frisby told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
https://www.theroot.com/nevada-passes-law-banning-racist-school-mascots-and-ch-1847042716?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1623013057&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0SWA8ED291Z1o9lz3ikjtPZ-tDbmUkXiLn3K3tZKIpkgl9YzboX5YuZRM
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