During Jim Crow times the Mexicans and Asians got to drink out of the white water fountain

[The Fade]

And they got reparations for it

Because of a black lawyer

And all those groups got a GI Bill


That twitter thread is full of gems. Forgotten Latino history is a gem.

 

[HarlemHottie]

@karim why did you neg me

I want to see if he is brave enough to explain this? He negged me for asking if truth is more important than narrative to a person, calling it right wing rhetoric.

So, @karim, should i be negging you every time I disagree with you? Is that what we doing?

 

[HarlemHottie]

Because of a black lawyer

And all those groups got a GI Bill


That twitter thread is full of gems. Forgotten Latino history is a gem.

Wait- what??

 

[The Fade]

Wait- what??

I’ll find the link for you. Give me a bit to find it

 

[The Fade]

Wait- what??

Hugh Macbeth | Densho Encyclopedia

encyclopedia.densho.org

Bonus:David Fagen - Wikipedia

Looks like we’ve been pretty good allies to other people but in return:


Never feel ashamed of yourselves. We got some knuckleheads in the streets, but we come from honorable people

 

[ChatGPT-5]

I wouldn't even want to share a fountain with people that hate me that much, on the contrary, I would have tried to find a water cooler and filter to attach to all the black fountains to spite them. then put the word coloured only in ultra bold and black font with a black fist next to it, might even paint the water fountain black too.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

That last woman looks relatively young. How late did colored/ white water fountains persist in Texas?

Depends on where she grew up. If it was a major city, probably 1964-1965. Towns,/communities outside those cities still had them up until about 1970.​

 

[HarlemHottie]

Depends on where she grew up. If it was a major city, probably 1964-1965. Towns,/communities outside those cities still had them up until about 1970.​

Does she look that old to you tho? I guess we'd have to know when the interview was done.

 

[Voice of Reason]

 

[RARI_Godwind]

Black is the color people are


Just pure hatred from Hwhoiite folks because you know they ain’t have no love from them people neither and they lazy ass ain’t wanna build another fountain lol

 

[Child_Of_God]

This is exactly why this whole “poc” talking point is bullshyt. Most Asians and Hispanics are just as racist as Whites (I’ll go far as to say they may be even worse) we really don’t have much Allies at all (even amongst ourselves).

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Does she look that old to you tho? I guess we'd have to know when the interview was done.

Purely my subjective opinion, but she looks mid/late-50's and depending on where she grew-up, it's entirely plausible she'd seen those signs as a little kid.​

 

[GoPinheiro]

Lol, I just hope one day you guys will understand the difference between ethnicity and modern nationalities. If you think that people like Yalitza Aparicio were being treated better or as "honorary white", then you are all mentally ill.

Most of you look at history with emotionalism, not with context and facts.

Mexico has a huge white population, the so called whitexicans, that basically dominate every main economic sector in the country. And during Jim Crow era, Mexico was one of the wealthiest nations on earth by GDP Per Capita. It was richer than Japan, South Korea, Spain etc. At the time, most Mexicans going to the US were white. Not brown, but white.

The same happened with every Central and South American region. The elites were and are white. The "Cubans" that left the country in droves once Castro got in power, and settled in the US, were WHITE.

This is the reality all over Central and South America. Pablo Escobar was white. Pinochet was white...They were never really seen as POC by the people in power. Powerless people are the ones that always tried to relate to them.

 

[Scientific Playa]

The Asians got put in concentration camps and the Mexicans got half their country stolen by the US.

Good drop, I recall seeing a PBS doc on that that history. I think it was only Japanese ppl, not all Asians.

Mexicans done darn near reclaimed the south western states and Cali!

Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.

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[ThatTruth777]

Same folks fighting to drink at white water fountains in pre 1965 are the same folks getting scholarships meant for black Americans in 2023.


Make it make sense.

quoted for emphasis