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Republican Congressman Calls for Investigation Into Bad Bunny Halftime Show (time.com)
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[–] 0 points 9 months ago (16 children)

What is the context behind this image? This cannot be recent, can it?

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  • [–] 60 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Segregated water fountains, washrooms, etc, were legal in the US until 1964, and continued to be a thing for probably around a decade after that as people dragged their heels about actually complying with the new law.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I just read about "Racial segregation in the United States" on Wikipedia. Does signs like these still remain in places today?

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't believe there are still signs like this today, at least not in public areas (because, as you pointed out in other comments, that would be illegal under the Civil Rights Act). Every now and then there are stories about non-white people being asked to leave an establishment, but those have, thankfully, become pretty rare.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Since apparently no one else can give you a real answer, here you go: It's a relatively recent (dated 2018) photo from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

    https://www.army.mil/article/200456/water_fountains_symbolize_1960s_civil_rights_movement

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Please tell me you're not from the US and our education system hasn't failed you this horribly.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I'm not from the US. I knew about Apartheid in Africa and I knew about the Triangular trade. I know that being a POC in the US comes with problems, for lack of a better description, compared to being a white male. I did not know that black people were seperated by law until around 1968 (according to Wikipedia, that is when segregation was outlawed in full, as of Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (but not in de facto, because people)).

    As to my original question, I consider recent around the last five, perhaps ten years. I would imaging this picture being taken around 1970, before something like this (hopefully) would have been removed.

    EDIT: I should add that I also knew about black people and white people not mixing back then, but not that it was also by law.

    EDIT 2: Now that I think about it, this is depicted in Umbrella Academy.

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