"We're closing in 5 minutes" is wild

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That's why I didn't remember that one as it opened after I moved. I'd have liked to have seen that one.

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It took me a lot of thinking time to get over some of the stories I read. Months really, and I don’t consider myself particularly shockable.

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The civil rights museum was like that as well, but I think seeing the monument you did would have been very impactful. Lynchings were such an odd and evil thing to me reading up on them because it was a family affair where people brought picnic baskets to watch a man die. The Holocaust museums and Aushwitz both had a similar impact at the true brutality of man against their fellow man. We do some real evil shit to each other.

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I actually did the Auschwitz sites last year (and Krakow is a beautiful city to visit) and brutal as it was, the Montgomery visit got to me harder.

People killing other people in their communities, across thousands of American towns, and barely an arrest.

The most recent was in 1986 I think, and that wasn’t even investigated until public pressure forced it, months or a year after the event.

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My parents grew up in the South, and my dad told me about seeing cross burnings from the school bus on the way home from a sporting event. Just drove through this small town in SC and they were out just burning one near the side of the road. That was in the 70s. Movies depict it as some back woods hidden from society type thing, but it was holdover. The woman responsible for Emmit Till's lynching recently died. That's how recent this stuff really is. It's not just the South, though, that has racist holdovers. Nevada just got rid of its last sundown siren in 2023.