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  1. Just including this because her shortened name would be France Press, which is close enough to a”French press” joke to make me chuckle
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  2. Just including this because her shortened name would be France Press, which is close enough to a”French press” joke to make me chuckle
    #books #pools

  3. When they say white people stopped using public pools when desegregation was enforced, they mean they STOPPED.
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  4. When they say white people stopped using public pools when desegregation was enforced, they mean they STOPPED.
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  5. The American story really is that white people will readily destroy a public good and immiserate poor people heavily while also demolishing public spaces rather than share them with Black people (even in the north!)
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  6. The American story really is that white people will readily destroy a public good and immiserate poor people heavily while also demolishing public spaces rather than share them with Black people (even in the north!)
    #books #pools

  7. When public pools began to be forcibly racially desegregated by law, white Americans just fully stopped going to them and instead built private pools with new middle class wealth. This kept private spaces segregated, but as a knock-on effect basically also barred lower classes at all
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  8. When public pools began to be forcibly racially desegregated by law, white Americans just fully stopped going to them and instead built private pools with new middle class wealth. This kept private spaces segregated, but as a knock-on effect basically also barred lower classes at all
    #books #pools

  9. Hey, when did you last think of the swimming pool in your grandparents’ backyard as a tool of segregation that had a measurable deleterious effect on societal empathy?
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  10. Hey, when did you last think of the swimming pool in your grandparents’ backyard as a tool of segregation that had a measurable deleterious effect on societal empathy?
    #books #pools