Your annual reminder that Halloween is by far the deadliest day of the year for children in the US.
It's not due to poison in the candy, stranger danger, or spooky satanists, though...
It's cars. Kids are routinely hit and killed by cars, and we don't bat an eye, let alone change anything. This is what real horror looks like.
Children are three times more likely to be fatally injured by a car on Halloween, and the risk grows to 10 times for kids aged 4 to 8.
@chrisjrn I’m glad they’re useful in the .au context, but very skeptical that’s the impact in the US.
It’s so transparently obvious that the entities involved have exactly zero intent to ever give back a square inch of land. If you called them “genocide acknowledgements” they’d be a lot more accurate, but then no one would do them, which… says something, I think.
@theneurotrust
I have a book about the racial wealth gap that boggled my mind *years* ago.
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide - by Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, and Rose Brewer
A fantastic primer for folks unfamiliar with the concept, policies, and history in the US.
It also had some great discussion guides.
Disheartening that the US has learned *nothing* since and done even less.
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