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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Canadians and Europeans have no standing to criticize social injustices in the 19th century USA, and up until around wwii.
At a time when the feds were establishing colleges for black citizens in the 1880s , the brits were machine gunning Kenyans and the Belgians were collecting severed Congolese hands
Canada was part of the imperial British state until 1947 ( the firsts year independents Canadian citizenship existed)
After 1945, it’s a different picture. Jim Crow was an abomination
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Jim Crow lasted about as long as the period of time between the Revolutionary War and Civil War. The Reconstruction period, the time between the end of slavery and the beginning of Jim Crow, only lasted roughly 15 - 20 years. And although there managed to be some African Americans elected to statewide offices in the South during that period (and even to the U.S. Senate), Reconstruction was obviously no picnic for black Americans at large. This was the same period that the Ku Klux Klan was first founded.