gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoA Black man’s brutal murder 25 years ago has faded from a Texas town’s memoryweb.archive.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up195arrow-down1external-linkA Black man’s brutal murder 25 years ago has faded from a Texas town’s memoryweb.archive.orggAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down17·1 year agoSo what? History has billions of people being killed. What does it matter if some random one isn’t remembered?
minus-squareyata@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoRemembered in the small town where he was killed only 25 years ago because of the same kind of racism which still permeates the place. Your attempt at relativisation of this story is disingenous.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoI’m guessing it matters to the people who loved him. I wonder if you would say the same thing about the death of someone who mattered to you?
So what? History has billions of people being killed. What does it matter if some random one isn’t remembered?
Remembered in the small town where he was killed only 25 years ago because of the same kind of racism which still permeates the place.
Your attempt at relativisation of this story is disingenous.
I’m guessing it matters to the people who loved him. I wonder if you would say the same thing about the death of someone who mattered to you?
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