• ██████████@lemmy.world
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    Two years ago, Braxton says he was the only volunteer firefighter in his department to respond to a tree fire near a Black person’s home in the town of 275 people. As Braxton, 57, actively worked to put out the fire, he says, one of his white colleagues tried to take the keys to his fire truck to keep him from using it.

    There ain’t that many one solid protest from the surrounding communities would wreck the towns racists

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      Spoken by someone who has clearly never lived in the south.

      Brown people in the south are afraid for good reason, you can’t imagine the kind of terror those fat fucks will inflict because they know nobody can stop them.

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          The governor would send the national guard with tanks.

          You don’t understand the south, black people aren’t citizens there, they’re the enemy.

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            🤔 I get what you’re saying. They’re very powerful, very well-armed and very organized. But that can’t stop us from stopping them from hurting us.

            We can look up the National Guard bases throughout a particular state and just steal the tanks beforehand so they can’t just roll up on us.

            You know, we ourselves could actually organize. Possibly claim a big land area and vote for it to be a new state so none of their bullshit is possible anymore.

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              I think it’s a nice thought, I just don’t think it would work.

              When I lived there it felt like the entire social fabric of the source was founded deep down on unimaginable hate, I think they would gladly see everything burn before admitting they were equal in any way.

              There’s a reason the civil war and ww2 only ended when there was literally no other choice, hate closes doors.

              That being said, ww2 left Germany a much nicer place because all the most hateful people were not around as much anymore, we should have done the same after the civil war, maybe that’s a second chance.

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              This has the same problem as the southern white NRA attitude.

              There aren’t enough untrained civilians to enact a violent rebellion without the support of our military. They don’t have to beat us to win, only stop us from beating them, and the law will take over from there. Unlike in Vietnam, the war of attrition would be against whoever rebelled. Nobody wants to be in a long and protracted war against the US, and if the rebellious behavior doesn’t break down, the perpetrators will stop being seen as heroes and start being seen as criminals.

              We saw it firsthand recently with CHOP/CHAZ. Ultimately, a vast majority of onlookers (including some members of CHAZ) were done with it all by the end.

              This small town in this snippet is not going to fix its problems by a bunch of people robbing tanks from the Federal Government.

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      They would arrest and convict the majority, and move on. With state support, 275 people is just not enough. A few surrounding communities? Their police forces would join in.

      The small-town South Sucks if your skin isn’t white.