TIL in 1958 a white girl kissed two African American boys aged 9 and 7 on the cheeks. The two boys were arrested, detained for 6 days without access to their parents or legal counsel, & were severely beaten by the police. The boys were detained for a total of 3 months. : todayilearned: "This shit is not generations past. My father carried those scars with him the rest of his life, he could never trust the police after that. He was a college professor with a PhD and 2 masters degrees. Back before the days of cell phones I remember getting lost and my father vehemently refusing to ask the police for directions. My white mother never understood the fear he carried and how it shaped his adult life, the hotels that said there was no room until my mother went in and asked, the jobs he missed out, the university programs that wouldn't accept him. These micro biases haunt you daily, affect your self esteem and outlook on life. Things aren't getting worse, but let's not pretend everything is solved and happy today. We still have generations trying to recover from lifetimes of this.
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