‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ moves home 85 years after racist mob burned it down
www.independent.co.uk
Opal Lee, who helped make Juneteenth a holiday, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year
  • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    That’s not the point. The meme of the orphan crushing machine is that headlines report an orphan being saved as something uplifting when really the problem is that someone built a machine for the express purpose of crushing orphans, and it’s still running.

    It’s not uplifting news that this lady gets to move back home. It’s horrifying that her house was torched by a racist mob and she hasn’t been able to live there for 85 years.