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. 😏 pic.twitter.com/EjW0Kcj49z
— Earl Landix 🇺🇸 (@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![:marseylaughpoundfist: :marseylaughpoundfist:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseylaughpoundfist.webp)
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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![:marseybeanquestion: :marseybeanquestion:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseybeanquestion.webp)
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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?![:marseyconfused: :marseyconfused:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyconfused.webp)
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?![:marseyquestion: :marseyquestion:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyquestion.webp)
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.![:marseycosmopolitan: :marseycosmopolitan:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycosmopolitan.webp)
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)...![:marseysquint: :marseysquint:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysquint.webp)
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.![:marseyfellowkids: :marseyfellowkids:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyfellowkids.webp)
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.![:marseyflagbosnia: :marseyflagbosnia:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyflagbosnia.webp)
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.![:marseyoctopus2: :marseyoctopus2:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyoctopus2.webp)
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"Gary Indiana is a Sundown Town"
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Sundown Town is where the sun sets.![:marseynpcsheep: :marseynpcsheep:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseynpcsheep.webp)
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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.![:marseyfine: :marseyfine:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyfine.webp)
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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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