Comment by scarface_74

So there wasn’t enough fuel in the fire when marauding Klansmen were hanging Black people?

It was the current President of the US that led a charge that a Black man running for President wasn’t a “real American” and was a secret Muslim trying to bring Shari law to the US and close to half of the US was willing to believe it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0

This was before social media in the northern burbs of Atlanta where I had to a house built in 2016. We didn’t have a problem during the seven years we lived there. But do you think they were “polarized” by social media in the 80s?

That’s just like police brutality didn’t start with the rise of social media. Everyone just has cameras and a platform