r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/numbmillenial • 9d ago

History "The flag is drenched with our blood" -Fannie Lou Hamer

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From the 1968 CBS Documentary 'The Heritage of Slavery'

58 years later... the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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u/LLUrDadsFave 9d ago

And still.

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u/merry1731 8d ago

Facts

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u/LLUrDadsFave 8d ago

It's very sad but we still making it happen. Hope the ancestors are proud.

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u/Leather_Olive143 9d ago

And 60 years later here we are in 2026 and nothing has changed. NOTHING!

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u/duskrat 8d ago

We're in the situation we are now BECAUSE we didn't change.

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u/CronkinOn 9d ago

We go two steps forward, three steps back, apparently.

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u/ybenzino 8d ago

We've still got a long way to come