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by SaintGhurka 2021 days ago
>> no white person even went to prison in Texas for killing a black person post reconstruction

That's astounding. Do you have a source for this?
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stevenwoo 2011 days ago
You can choose your own news sources but here's the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. It was pretty sickening to read the headlines in the newspapers at the time.
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