Donald Trump faces backlash over rally locations: "Sundown towns"

www.newsweek.com Donald Trump faces backlash over rally locations: "Sundown towns"

A viral TikTok said Trump's recent rallies have been held in "sundown towns," places where Black residents were historically barred from living.

Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash for holding rallies in places described as "sundown towns."

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For the uninitiated:

"A sundown town is one that forbade Blacks, by ordinance or otherwise, to live in it. Many of these places, including Cullman, posted signs to the effect of 'Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark,' sometimes with far less sanitized language."

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- As a non American, thank you. The headline made zero sense without that context.
  
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  If it is American and does not make sense, it is probably racism.
  
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  As an American, I had no clue what a "sundown town" was, but I do know how far American media will go to obfuscate Führer Drumpf's outright racism and bigotry.
  
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- I was reading Erik Larsen's The Demon of Unrest and one of the things he pointed out was that, in areas of the South, blacks had to be off the streets by a given time. If they weren't, they were subject to arrest overnight (during which they might be beaten or even killed), and then "returned" to their owners the next day (where they'd likely face additional punishment).
  
  I knew of the definition of "sundown towns" as you described them, but it seems like they're post-Civil War attempt at some kind of pseudo-slavery, combined with expanded sharecropping, "separate but equal" facilities, red-lining, voting literacy laws, etc.
  
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Many of these towns still have those laws, they never removed them and refuse to to this day.

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- Waiting for SCOTUS to make it legal again. (And Trump's presence is effectively an endorsement of that.)
  
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  A lot of these small towns around me don't even have their own police force or only have a few people on staff and have to use the sheriff for backup. They're going to have a bad time if people decide they're not going to put up with it.
  
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  "Let the states decide!"
  
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“No OnE HaS DonE MoRe fOr BLAK pEoPlE thAN mEeEeEEEe”

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- "If I get elected, no black person will be without a job. Whether they like it or not."
  
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  But they get the black jobs
  
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Just to clarify what “great again” implies

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Faces backlash from who? From anyone that he cares about?

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he has to do something to make sure he doesn't lose the 4th grade dropout vote along with everyone else

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- Ha! You literally just described my aunt. Worst person i know, dropped out after fourth grade, one kid dead from drunk driving, another guilty of insurance fraud, the third one molested a child and the fourth was forced to give birth to a rape baby at 14.
  
  She'll vote Republican till the day she dies, and she'll think she's right the whole time...
  
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The best part about Harris replacing Biden is that she has the time and energy to actually campaign, which forces Donald Fuck to get up off his toilet and open his mouth. And in public, he keeps showing everyone who he really is!

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Is he getting more orange?

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I figured it was because its the only places he won't get boo'd at. He needs some good footage to lie about his campaign success.

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there is about 10,000 historically sundown towns, i think referring to their current race distribution would be a stronger argument

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- Howell at least has a current reputation for being a nasty center for white supremacy and the KKK. I don't know about the other cities off hand, but I know it's reputation without needing to look it up.
  
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