Did you think we were clawing and scratching for the right to hang out in train cars and movie theaters with white people? Hold up, gimme a few minutes to stop laughing. Have you met white people? Think about it. If someone kidnapped you, made your family work for free, and murdered, raped, and brutalized your kin, who would want to kick it with them on the train? The fight against segregation had less to do with the proximity to whiteness and more about the social, political, and economic subjugation of Black people. Resisting Jim Crow was about our humanity. Plus, we had a sneaky suspicion
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