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ricottapie t1_j99212u wrote

Reply to comment by illegible in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx

I'm Canadian, and I only learned about them a year or two ago.

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wilde_man t1_j99fz1o wrote

That would make sense, seeing as you live in Canada.

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ricottapie t1_j9b5j3k wrote

Yeah, but with our exposure to American and international media and history being as high as it is, you'd think that it would've come up before. At the same time, a lot of Canadians were, and remain, woefully (maybe wilfully!) unaware of some our own history, so...

But I know now.

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