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jaxexpat

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4. That they were sentenced at all......

Reply to brer cat (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 10, 2023, 07:31 AM

Apr 2023

was because they DIDN'T kill him and were too stupid to successfully escape the scene.

The South has yet lived with slavery longer than emancipation. There is nearly no appreciation for integration at all. Every dyslexic redneck high school dropout in Alabama "knows" he's "better" than any black man.

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On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 OP

It's remarkable that he wasn't seriously injured. brer cat Apr 2023 #1

That they were sentenced at all...... jaxexpat Apr 2023 #4

I hear you! I live in GA and have seen and heard the same things. brer cat Apr 2023 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author twodogsbarking Apr 2023 #2

Thanks for posting this story. I have never heard of this ugly incident japple Apr 2023 #3

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