• fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    In the SE USA where I was about to graduate from high school, in the local news it was presented as “inner city terrorists handled with appropriated force”

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      6 months ago

      I’m not surprised there was a deal of confusion about it. It was a complicated affair that doesn’t have much analogue in contemporary history AFAIK.

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        It wasn’t until I went to university in the fall of that same year in a large metropolitan city with a diverse collection of dazzling urbanites that I was exposed to other points of view.