# I Pit Babale

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Would you have had the current backsliding situation if racists hadn’t been largely tolerated?

You’re speaking of the American civil rights story as though it’s a done deal. As though America isn’t currently actually in some ways _more_ racist than it was in the 60s, just to different demographics.

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