https://twitter.com/earllandix/status/1805251444037087684
Black American FedEx driver on being told that there are certain towns (sundown) that she can't deliver in 2024. These towns are in the Midwest BTW. π pic.twitter.com/EjW0Kcj49z
— Earl Landix πΊπΈ (@EarlLandix) June 24, 2024
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Oh wait this is the level of "evidence" it requires this tiny butt town in illinois to make it on the list
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This very real story says a lot about America.
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Darn did i read this in high school lit class
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https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/99dec/9912frazier4.htm
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!dixie, they may not know, but I do. Given that I've never been kicked out any of the several dozen times I've been in that part of town after dark, including as recently as last month, I can confidently say it isn't currently a sundown town. Why the Heck do they think it might be?
Avondale High closed almost fifteen years ago, when they realized hosting a magnet school inside a regular school was silly and turned the whole thing into the DeKalb School of the Arts. But she's talking about them removing the program? I think their first independent location was in the former Briarcliff High for a few years in the 2000s, but it was definitely there for less than a decade. Eight years, tops. And everyone knew it would be moving back and Avondale High would be closing at least a couple years in advance, so what the Heck is her timeline here?
Also, before its closure, the kids in Avondale Estates who attended public school did go to Avondale High. They now go to Druid Hills High, which is part of the DeKalb County School District, same as Avondale High was, not Decatur High, which is part of the City Schools of Decatur. That said, she's right most of the kids in Avondale Estates went to private high schools, at least post-1970s. That's part of why the non-performing arts section of the school closed. No one who could afford not to would send their kid there.
She's also right that Avondale Estates is pretty white. Not 96%, though. ~80%, maybe? And that was true fifteen years ago as well, for what it's worth. But that bit about walking north on Clarendon Avenue (the name of which she got wrong)...
If you go north of the school, the street is 100% residential. They'd have to walk past at least a mile of houses to get to any commercial property. And since this is about "sundown towns", they were presumably doing this at night, long after school let out. I suspect those calls to the police had very little to do with race, and a whole lot to do with unknown teenagers loitering outside a private residence in the dead of night.
I also don't know anything about Bosnian refugees. Pretty sure most Bosniaks in Atlanta moved here in the 1990s, which once again, makes her timeline impossible to follow. And they all live in Gwinnett, not DeKalb. Lawrenceville, specifically.
If this is their standard of evidence, you could accuse any town in America of currently being a sundown town. Just pick one at random, write some bullshit, and you're good to go.
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"Gary Indiana is a Sundown Town"
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Sundown Town is where the sun sets.
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hey please dont ping dixie when youre talking about atlanta, gross lol
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Sure thing. And while I'm at it, I'll be sure to let General Sherman and President Lincoln know Atlanta doesn't count as !dixie.
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Oh, it good. I no Black, I Domincan papi
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Still more evidence than what is needed for
oral history to be treated as absolute fact.
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Idaho had a mountain called "Chink Peak" in a populated area up until 2001.
They renamed it to Chinese Peak and I'm shocked they didn't go with Chinaman Peak for the rename.
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Heck, in 1911 there was a massacre of Chinese immigrants in Northern Mexico
But going off one old person's unsupported story is kinda sketchy
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Lol one of those "possible" towns is near me. There's very few black people in rural Midwest, but you know the ones that live there. Strange cars will get pulled over by the cops, sorry that's just how it is.
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Lmao, what the frick is supposed to be going on in Indiana and Ohio? And are they counting all the black people shooting each other in Illinois?
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seems like the racist hicks in the south ... arent?
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are there any maps like this that are actually legit
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Oh like mass shootings
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It used to be the rule was nobody fricked with the mail. Even in the shittiest parts of the shittiest towns, nobody fricked with the mail because everyone wanted their welfare check.
What I'm saying is Amazon needs to start delivering free money to poors.
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Amazon should start arming robot delivery dogs to taze package thief's for an extra $ delivery cost premium option
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Strange way to spell decoy packages with surprises inside
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O I thought we were going to go for teaching the racists a lesson and just not let them get any deliveries at all if shaniqua can't deliver there nobody will
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I was a pizza delivery driver back in the day and there absolutely are areas you aren't allowed to go to after dark, but the demographics aren't quite what she thinks
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yt pepo be jus raycis
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Just break out a gold-plated chain and wifebeater and turn your hat sideways.
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in that thread black people are sharing conspiracy videos of black people being hanged
https://twitter.com/zx7miller/status/1805354763896156517
including one case that got $500k settlement from a publisher for claiming 2 white students were involved
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/03/10/bankrupt-johnson-publishing-reaches-500000-settlement-in-ebony-defamation-lawsuit/
and the family for $300k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kendrick_Johnson
!effortposters someone summarize this I'm too lazy
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TL;DR: Dude tripped, got stuck upside down, died. Parents couldn't cope with the fact that their son died in such an embarrassing way, insisted it must have been murder.
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Real tldr: black kid died in bizarre accident- r-slurred fambly went along with idiotic antics of blacksploitation lawyers (Ben crump types) in hopes of ghetto lottery $ - millions in dollars of LE investigations conclude they're r-slurred liars and they had to pay legal fees
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there was a conspiracy documentary recently, which MSNBC covered as a real thing
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What the heck is the deal with the organs? Also that lady in blue was cracking me up the entire time. Something
about the way she talks is just very funny 
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The body was sent to a budget black funeral place they send gangbangers and since the organs were decomposed and they were paid for a public showing they filled the body with newspaper fillings to βfill spaceβ
This got the funeral place in trouble with the gov regulator who said they should have used something more appropriate to fill the βspaceβ but still decided it didn't break any rules
But the bigger story is the family hired some r-slurred forensic guy out of Florida who keeps claiming the lack of organs is some conspiracy because he keeps getting paid by the even more r-slurred family lawyers, even though the funeral place publicly admitted it like 5yrs before that documentary
as of April 2024 they are still trying to sue GBI (Georgia) after running out of other places to sue
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OMG how have I not heard
about this story 
until now? There's so much drama 
and twists and turns that you'd think 
Netflix or HBO or something 
would 
make a big budget thing covering all sides. I'm going 
to try to look for that silly 
documentary about it. Thanks for the info
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Summarize in an effort post pls I'll pin it
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I'll let you know for sure. I'm not nearly as clever
or funny 
as most effortposters here so I'll do my best.
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https://twitter.com/DHFaircloth/status/1805266724679307468
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!chuds
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So Fedex is ostensibly trying to protect Black drivers by listening to "lived experiences" of other drivers who complained about people being buttholes and unwittingly made it even worse and Black Twittx blames Fedex and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
for being racist.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Of course mayos are in the comments say that they can't go into any major city, so they're matching the histrionic energy.
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totally real thing that exists in current year
i mean we are living in 1950 mississippi afterall
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Yeah i know she's a woman and all but it would be much more accelerationist to do it anyway without leaving money on the table.
I'm not going to let some honky pick up my route because some drooling walmart greeter has damaged eye cones and starts seething
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I don't even want to watch it. Sundown towns are probably the most r-slurred conspiracy because they're so wild and so accepted by internet denizens. I look forward to it hitting mainstream news one day.
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be white and drive a nice car through 8 mile or similar and see what happens
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when I aks why
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When I axe why
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