• audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    For the same reason white people filled in public swimming pools with concrete when black folks started moving into the neighborhood.

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      I had no idea that was a thing until I found out the town I live in today, the same town that lynched an innocent black man 100 years ago, had a huge circular swimming pool in a park in the center of town that was filled in for some reason in the 1960s.