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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:21:58 JST Laffy

   • Will Bunch

   "Springfield OH has epitomized what's great about the American Dream, up to today's chance for Haitians to thrive, and its dark underbelly of lynching and anti-Black riots

   What's new is men openly riding the dark side to seize the White House."

   If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...
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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:28:48 JST Laffy

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     3/ "It’s all over the news now: how the low level of grumbling among some longtime white Springfield residents as thousands of refugees from Haiti’s political turmoil were welcomed to town by civic and faith leaders got turned up a notch with a fatal 2023 traffic accident, and went from a whisper to a scream with a power boost from the internet, as locals knowingly or unknowingly dredged up ancient racist tropes about immigrants eating geese, even their neighbors’ cats."

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:28:49 JST Laffy

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     2/ "...the dream, pushing Springfield forward. As I slept on a Holiday Inn mattress, I didn’t know the city was governed in late 1960s by Ohio’s 1st Black mayor, one of 1st in nation since Reconstruction. In 2014, at seemingly rock bottom, civic leaders announced a plan to save a community that had lost 1/3 of its population by appealing to new immigrants — an idea that bore fruit 6 years later when a surge of legal Haitian migrants and a new breed of factory owner forged a beautiful friendship"

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 02:29:01 JST Laffy

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     4/ "What’s deeply troubling and new is that political leaders who could turn down the volume on these xenophobic, anti-Haitian lies are instead cranking the volume to earsplitting levels. Ohio U.S. Sen. #JDVance, the GOP vice presidential candidate, posted baseless falsehoods on X/Twitter before his top-of-the-ticket mate, Donald #Trump, stunned the nation in a nationally televised debate by blurting out. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs” — and they’ve continued to double down."