‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down
Opal Lee, who helped make Juneteenth a holiday, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year
Yay. The orphan crushing machine paused briefly.
Good lord.
My impression of Lemmy lately:
<something good happens, gets reported>
Lemmy: that's cool, but babies get cancer.
Like, come on.....
Hey everyone, this guy doesn't want us talking about baby cancer! How much is Big Baby Cancer paying you, bro?
That's not accurate.
You didn't blame the baby cancer on capitalism and/or Israel.
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.
Opal Lee is single-handedly keeping Texas a place worth making better.
I'm exaggerating, but only a little. She's a god-damned saint.
The racist mob handed her the keys?
What an awkwardly-worded title.
new Texas home...after racist mob burned it down
Burned what down? New house?
The “85 years" kinda makes it obvious, doesnt it?
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down
This implies that 85 years ago a racist mob burned down the new Texas home that she was just handed the keys to, which makes no sense.
A better way to word it would be "‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned her childhood house down". I get that it's at the same site, but the home she's moving into isn't the same one that was burned down.
Whether it's obvious or not has no bearing on the fact that it's an awkwardly-worded title.